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by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM | May 2, 2018
THE DESIGN OF TALISMANS, AMULETS AND THE PORTALS OF PERCEPTION What if there was an ancient theory about the nature of marking, that the making of marks had a powerful transformative character — a mark is a perceptual portal? One stroke, an idea is born, an energy... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Jan 31, 2017
FLINT + SPARK = FLAME ON! THE ETYMOLOGY OF BRAND, INNOVATION, CULTURE + FIRE BRANDFIRE | THE ENTERPRISES THAT ARE FIRED BY PASSION As a designer, presuming strategic intention, the practice of designing — buildings, print, objects — is never about what’s on the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 31, 2016
Working from Scratch: Customized Type Face Design, Font Development and Motion Picture Design The presumption is — design by hand and the work is better. Is that right? In the study of aligning idea to shining, brand to epiphany, inspiration to magic — there is the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Sep 10, 2008
True Stories: a quest for narrative in the psyche of hybrid experience. During the 90s, I came to a string of crises in my life – while I was at the epitome of success, the biggest design firm for more than a decade, lots of money, big projects, I was profoundly... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General | Mar 3, 2008
Saul Bass Saul Bass with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of “Psycho”. I gave a talk for the Arizona Advertising and Marketing Association some time back, and during that presentation — it was actually a conference — Saul Bass was one of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Feb 24, 2008
Organized by Paola Antonelli, the show opens with an act of high-tech graffiti. A can of spray paint is suspended from a system of cables and pulleys in front of a wall. A small motor guided by computer software winds and unwinds the cables, moving the spray can... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Feb 4, 2014
THE BRAND AND FRAGRANCE STORYTELLING STRATEGIES OF COMME DES GARÇONS “There is no plan.” Rei Kawakubo As a blogger on design, and on perfume, and architecture, I’m always looking for threads, entanglements and weaving between lines of thinking action... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Uncategorized | Oct 17, 2011
NASA the second of two observations | brand, metaphor, retail Designing a strategy of creative intelligence: the unconscious design, design thinking and the mystery of myth 2010, Dawn Clark AIA, LEED AP and I’d visualized the idea of building an Amazon retail... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 2, 2011
Testing and response, does the arcing circular form suggest greater accessibility? “I’m soft, touch me — more.” Curves: more human, more lovable? There’s a proposition (noted below) that the Asian populace relates more positively to curve... Read More