by Tim Girvin | General, Places, Storytelling | Oct 3, 2007
Luxury Retail design and brand patterning, Jakarta Seibu, Java, Indonesia I had the opportunity to partner yet again with Callison Architecture, Dawn Clark, AIA LEED and Andy Thaemert, Doug Shaw and team on the development of an expansion of the environmental design...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 22, 2007
What did influence me? Practice for one, looking for another. I look, I find. I research, I uncover. I dig, I excavate. When I was in college, I did this one section, this one grouping of studies of the history of the letterform. What is that, anyway? Palaeography....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Sep 9, 2007
When you look, you find. In working on a brand development project in eastern Washington, I was walking their vineyard to get, literally, the lay of the land. And, I’m looking for what lies beneath, what lies inside the brand story. And in any brand development,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands | Sep 6, 2007
————————- NOTES ON: Marc Jacobs The key to influence is the street. Marc’s work is based on his ascent — and that’s telling. It tells the tales of his visioning, drawn from experience starting from the...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Sep 4, 2007
Hi and good morning. Starting off, after the absence of Labor…day. Welcome back! —- Here’s a story about a story. The thing that I believe in, personally, is that it’s sometimes hard to imagine that small things really matter — but they...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | Sep 3, 2007
I realized that the branding visualizations that Sprint’s been doing with conductor-like expressions of people moving things, ideas, teams, etc., with light, was strangely reminiscent of something in my mind — not sure what, but it’s there....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Aug 23, 2007
Visual Thesaurus visualizations, brand development and GIRVIN. —- As a designer, and someone that works in the space of branding and the human character of business communications, writing plays a significant role. Moreover, there’s the issue of how people...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 16, 2007
When someone gets something — understands a message, how is it gathered, how is it understood? The lay of the alphabet, the geometries therein, speak to the message of the mind, laid bare, in the character of the black on the white, the message — missive...
by Tim Girvin | General, Luxury, Trends | Aug 12, 2007
There are some that believe that luxury’s rocking – it’s just one big booming affair. But where in the world is it rocking? There are others, particularly more fluent to the history and movement of luxury brand(s) in Asia that see a potential turning...
by Tim Girvin | General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2007
Beowulf What calls, from ancient halls, the spirit of that other distant world, far more than a thousand and five hundred years back in the balled skein of time? Beowulf! Palaeography, or the history of the written world has long been a strategic underpinning of what...
