by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jul 12, 2008
Exploring the renaissance mind of Lorenzo Villoresi: Scholarship, legacy and the genetics of exploration — a history of fragrance creativity. Sometimes you find a person that seems like someone you’ve encountered before. Perhaps in another life, another...
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent | Jul 11, 2008
Digging iris, rooting them, I remember that, as a child — the scent of sliced iris rhizomes, cut and seeping fragrance, as they came to the warm soil out of the cool earth beneath. There’s a history of the fleur de lys and the relationship to Firenze....
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jul 10, 2008
Exploring scent with Hoteliers and Perfumers Sebastián Alvarez Murena and Marina Sersale. Foto by Dawn Clark, AIA Imagine the idea of creating a scent that captures the spirit of your hotel. Or of your life. Your hotel: decades old – lying, heated in the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places | Jul 9, 2008
Exploring brand and myth in spa positioning: Terme Di Saturnia. Where does the myth begin? Who becomes the legend — most? Where is the brand heart genuine? Brand, mystery — I’m wondering about mythic dimensions in brand. And when there’s a...
by Tim Girvin | Places | Jul 8, 2008
A Firenze, ci è una bellezza speciale nel disegno dei segni per i negozi. Ci sono gli alfabeti speciali, quello è squisito e perfino forse un piccolo sconosciuto. Ma gradico quello. È una bella cosa. E continu aare cercare più. Ma conoscete gi quello. Sto cercando...
by Tim Girvin | Places | Jul 7, 2008
What site, sighted? What sighting, sited? What citing, site — in sight? There’s always a sense between place, and presence and story. But the real challenge is — who’s listening? And if there’s a story, then how is it told? Being here in...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Scent | Jul 6, 2008
Studying the world of Brian Eno: scent, strategy, music and environment in experience design and contemplation. Image Copyright, Apple Computer, Inc., © 2008, all rights reserved. “Humans are capable of a unique trick: creating realities by first imagining them,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 5, 2008
Exploring chaos and spectacle, designed events and disaster, celebration and siege. 7.4.08: Or at least, that’s what it felt like, late last night, down on the waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, with thousands of others, running, milling, surging. But with courteously...
by Tim Girvin | Artists | Jun 29, 2008
My first exposure to David Byrne was in college, in the 70s. How I relate to him is his ineffable curiosity. Frankly, since the 80s, I’ve probably only picked up a couple of his CDs, since that time. But it’s the infectious exploration that’s...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 28, 2008
Examining space, patterning, experience, design, memory and placemaking. I’ve been exploring the idea of pattern in space. But more about space, and surprise, and story — in place. And I continue that exploration. You know that. What about this? Space...
