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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 14, 2010
And me. A week back someone said, “why are you always writing about Steve Jobs, I mean, really — what’s the connection?” Calligraphy The connection goes back to Stanford. And the Stanford Conference on Design. Back then, I would go to these... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 6, 2010
Drawn from the heart: simple design prototypes from the 30s: design strategy and clarity of intention The heart of creative: drawing, sketching, roughs, comprehensives made by hand, brush and simplistic inspiration. A friend of mine in Santa Monica, composer Stuart... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Scent | Mar 10, 2022
Designing for perfume—the detailing of scent-related *experientiality: D I P T Y P Q U E. When I see things, invariably I smell them. When I touch things, I hear them. It’s a trait of curiosity—it’s one thing to see things, it’s another to touch them, still another to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 17, 2016
Identity, Story & Experience Design What is the game but a microcosm of life’s journey — and play but a perspective of living life in the fullness of a self-made, self-perceived adventure into the realm of the fantastical, the mystical and the magical? Live large,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 7, 2016
DESIGNING THE SHADOW WORLD What Have You Seen of the Shadow World? In any journey, the question is never just what is on the surface, but what lies behind and beneath. It’s never about what you see in clarity alone, but what lies behind the Light. And what the Light... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail, Scent | Dec 7, 2012
Diptyque | Paris Perfumed Environments: The Design of the Fragranced Retail Experience To every product, there is a story, to every story, there is a telling — and in every telling, there is a person that offers that tale. In this sequence of blogs, the notations have... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Feb 9, 2009
The touch, in place: silverlight Pearl. Bellevue. I’ve been contemplating place. And what happens in the making of place. And what happens to humans, in experience, in place. To epitomize that exploration, that meditation, what would be the best modeling? A... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | May 9, 2011
Girvin The drawn stroke of fragrance, scratched into the memory I go to the scent of drawing. That idea of the drawn scent is something that releases the molecules of creativity — a crayon (of the Crayola type) pulls the waxy molding of the hardened shaft into a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 15, 2010
The nature of the scripted hand, gesture and the fluent link to the mind I was talking to Steven Heller, the former Creative Director of the New York Times, and a person of astonishing connections and scholarship in the real of the history of design, author of more... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Retail | Jan 20, 2008
I’ve been working on this cover design for Wired. And it will be the kind of cover design that, in some manner of streetside merchandising, will literally leap to the street. Bold. Simple. When I first got the call to do this, it was from a friend, Margaret... Read More
