by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Places | Dec 18, 2007
Photography by Brent Murray I met Adam in a showing of his new table collections with the restauranteur, Thomas Keller — this was the launch of a line for Christofle. What I find compelling about the spirit of Adam, what he does, is the breadth of his design...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Dec 17, 2007
http://www.kenrock.com/ I’d met Ken Rock, sitting on the sidewalk. That’s what he does, part of the time. Sit on the side walk and hammer away. Looking from further down the block, I’d wondered what that person was doing. It was nightfall. And it was...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Luxury, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2007
Elle Magazine I’d read the news about Claude Chirac in the past, studying her — in the political management of her father, Jacques Chirac. While she’s been defined as chilly, the fist of steel in an Herm glove, I believe that her character has more...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Designers, General, Places | Dec 16, 2007
I’ve offered some expression of the opening vision of 40 Bond and I’ve been watching the evolution of that project. I went back. I had a couple of meetings in that area, NOHO, I’m guessing. Kimberly Sheppard from Gabellini | Sheppard. And...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Dec 14, 2007
I’d worked for Yves Saint Laurent to explore the story in the context or retail design and brand strategy a year ago — working under the leadership of YSL President Laura Lendrum and her EVP | Retail Design, Claudia Cividino. The work was a gathering, a...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 14, 2007
I had the chance to listen to Tom Ford, and to meet him, at a CEO Summit for WWD | Beauty | Miami. Nice man. Incredibly articulate thinker, as well. And this was, formally, before the announcement of the Tom Ford brand. Shirin Von Wulffen, a person I worked with at...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 13, 2007
I am looking for truth. Looking at finding truth. Looking for businesses — and people — that are about truth fullness. That the story that they tell is a robust expression of the inherent character of who they are. And in exploring that premise, I came...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Dec 12, 2007
There’s person that works with me, at Girvin, Michael James Hawk. He’s an able researcher: need some added content, a reflection on a new client, gathering presentation material, managing Google research, studying the inbounds on Girvin.com —...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 12, 2007
As a developer of campaign theming, in direct marketing development, ranging from department stores to retail products, theatrical marketing to entertainment design, the soul of the direct marketing story can lie in the very heart of the conceptual visualization...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Dec 11, 2007
The issue of branding is more about gathering differentiation; it’s a way of telling a distinctive story that positions the company in a way that is discrete from the competitive fray. And it just might be that — a story. What do you really remember about...
