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by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 11, 2016
Working at Night — Night is Drawing Nigh Working at night, working at candlelight. Seeing by fire. Some nights back, as I was on the farther shore, waiting for the night boat to come crossing, I was drawing in the dark, with light. Dawn was shooting these images, with... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | Mar 27, 2009
A return to the spirit of store one. I’ve worked in the Seattle coffee brewing experience for several decades. And all the while, I’ve been a lover of coffee — and the coffee sensate experience. There are two favorites for me. One, coffee made,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places | Aug 13, 2013
rAndom International at MOMA. Reinterpretations of cold digital design It’s been suggested by Random that their work isn’t about typical programmable environmental installations that are inherently “unfeeling” and cold, but rather interactively... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 12, 2015
Lines of thought: sight lines | NYC, LONDON, COPALIS, DECATUR ISLAND, AND SEATTLE What about lines? Light lines. Lines of journey — pathways of the mapping lines of place, to place. I go someplace — and my swirl of journey is all the string of a line, captured. I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 21, 2015
As a designer, a brand person, a journeyer, a wanderer, what know you of fear? I contemplate: metus | fear. Things are arranged; then they are rearranged. Things are stable, then they are unstable. What do you hold to: that which is arranged, that which is not? Is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Places, Storytelling | Sep 16, 2015
What is home? The Pathway To Where You Were and Where You Might Need To Be I was talking to some athletes — baseball players, about their concept of home. Home Runs, Home plate. What is that, getting home? The metaphor of home, home runs, getting home, hitting a homer... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 3, 2015
Contentment, placemaking and presence. Sometimes I study the context of people in their place. What is it for them? How are they doing? What are they being? That examination works in the context of brands, enterprise and leadership. What is the culture of a place, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Feb 3, 2015
Make something. Use your hands. What’s coming back to me is the realm of the personal — that which is made by a person, from that person, to me. As we’ve moved GIRVIN from downtown Seattle [they’re demolishing our building] to the bottom of West Queen Anne, we’ve all... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Oct 2, 2014
The Journey of Design, Place-making and Creative Environments: Archetypal Signage As any designer knows, to brand and experience design, there is a link between storytelling and sequence. A story has an ingress — a start, a mid-point, a moment of spectacle, of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Sep 25, 2014
There is the sign, which is a way — a tool to explain process and direction, to instruct, to mark, to place: made. The Ace Hotel, Expressed Metal Plate But to the notion of place-making, how that sign is made, gesture or stone, or cut metal, wood can tell a layering... Read More
