Search results for: bespoke craft
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Storytelling | May 9, 2009
Storytelling in retail design As designers, there’s a patterning to be explored, something to be seen, sensed, experienced in the making of place and the character of brand, in story — and the telling of retail. Girvin card deck, obverse puzzle assembly by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Storytelling | Feb 23, 2009
How does the framing of sight, and outcome of interpreted visualziations, drive design? And in looking — seeing — do you increasingly tune your sensing of visual content — and the display of it? While it’s surely impossible to define,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Luxury, Storytelling | Feb 1, 2009
A Study of Brand, Truth and Storytelling in Community As a brand consultant and designer, I’ve been working internationally for 35 years in finding the heart of brands. Brands, in a way, that have heart, have an especial place in my practice. Because brands that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Luxury | Oct 18, 2007
The point, to the discussion, our talk, our sharing — is really simple. Is luxury, really, luxury? Or merely smoke? Where’s the legacy, the story, the craft, the making, the beauty, the powered intensity of focus?? Or are we merely selling the skins of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Designers, General | Oct 4, 2007
I believe that the story is the way that people connect with each other. I tell you a story about me, you learn something — there’s a possible magnetic link between us; we’ve made some opening range of a connection. And from there…what, where... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Apr 16, 2007
I believe in this, to the action of staying creative: The real presumption is that you are creative in the first place. Sometimes people who run creative enterprises are, in fact, great at running organizations, but less so to the challenges of creative activations.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 15, 2024
A Wanderer’s Journey, Sensing the Heart, in Memory—From Afar In a bitterly cold subway channel, during a time when the ice was hanging stalactitic from the ceiling girders of the NYC Metro—and wind whipped so cold up the railed canyons of the running lines that eyes... Read More
