by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 9, 2014
Brands That Have Nothing To Say. As a designer, I think about layers. And I think about messages. Content. Holism. Contentment. Direction. There is a sign, but it’s empty. It has nothing to say, no place that it points. It’s nowhere. Like experiences that move from a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 17, 2014
THE JOURNEY FROM MIND TO KEYBOARD AND THE FLUENCY OF THE FIST, IN-HAND, FINGERED — handwritten –– Thought-bound, WORDS, POEMS AND HEARTS DRAWN OUT LARGE. There is more to handwriting than one might expect. We’ve talked about the nature of design and the signature —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Sep 19, 2008
Tom Barbitta is a friend of mine. A friend, as a client — a friend as an fellow explorer of story. A brand explorer. He believes in the power of story as a link to building relationships with people. Brand, in story, is solely about that — linking people... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jun 4, 2008
Brand, personality, context and visualization in the community of politics. If there’s a visioning — and a vision — what does it look like, what does it feel like and what do you care? What’s the story, anyway? Over the course of the last... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008
Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2008
Store one: Pike Place Market: It’s clear that Howard Schultz is loved, given the rousing support he received at the shareholder’s conference, this past week in Seattle. Even k.d. lang was there, savoring the melange of several thousand people, singing out.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 22, 2014
When you draw a letter, what happens? A drawing is a drawing out; draw a letter, the string of story unspools and it’s something more. A letter is a map, an anciently originated succession of markings, a thought cartography, a seared, scarred, scratched, penned,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Scent | Apr 17, 2014
THE LAYERING OF EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF THE TRANS-SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCE: LAYERING STORY, TASTE, TOUCH, SCENT AND THE HEARING OF THE WHOLE BEING. WORKING in Oregon, I met with a taste innovation strategist — a woman who, along with my team, as well as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2014
Defining locality and brand presence What is on the surface and lies beneath? I was walking in the dark — that, a metaphor unto itself — and looking on the street, with the light filtering and flickering in the wind-riven trees, casting quivering shadows... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 7, 2013
Hereness, Thereness, Whereness? Or are you a way? In the meditations on way-finding, finding a way, and designing experiences to help people to find their way, there is a point to which you ponder “am I lost? Or have I found my way?” There is an alignment... Read More
