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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Trends | Oct 26, 2009
What if your brand is about a cause? What if your brand is humanity? What if your real messaging reach is love? This is an overview of Girvin’s strategic thinking about the nature of humanitarian and cause-related branding strategy and tactics. There have been a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Designers, General, Storytelling | Dec 31, 2007
1. How did you get your start? My start? Raw curiosity for one. That’s where it all started, that drove, and drives everything that I am made of. I am one that is easily enchanted by content. I can be ignited in a moment, if the right spark is there. A love of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Jul 3, 2012
Logos, fonts, custom alphabets and design strategies: from one sheet to main titles WORKING AS A DESIGNER IN THE THEATRICAL BRANDING Design / Strategy market, the “instinctually” founded process is pebbled with uncertainty and the foibles of a largely... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 11, 2018
APPROACHES OF BRANDED STORYTELLING IN THE CONTEXT OF IDENTITY. Paramount Studios Most people know we have a long history in the study of design and identity for films it’s been a legacy of decades of work and participating in hundreds of projects. It started out,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Luxury, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 23, 2013
THE HAND CRAFT OF RETAIL DESIGN IN THE BEGINNING, RETAIL DESIGN GOES BACK TO ONE SIMPLE PROPOSITION. “WHY SHOULD I BUY FROM YOU?” The implications of retail speaks to retelling — that is, there is a story, and another story, in a story — and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Jun 20, 2012
The mystery of design | drafting design as talismans, amulets, portals and gatekeepers An old sign in Paris Working with Pierre Dinand, [and, noted herewith, that collaboration, here] in Paris — in the making of a shopfront signing, lasercut from solid brass,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jun 6, 2012
There’s a distinction between the sensation of raw space, and the making of place – – a place to be, that can be, held. The nature of holding is about warmth, holding — being held. Etymologically, it might be offered that “relating”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Jan 4, 2012
Explorations, Archaeology, Design Integrations Puck REI, main floor — Image above, shot 12.3.2010 ––––––––– My family has history with the Recreational Equipment cooperative. Earlier in our explorations of the outdoors, we’d travel to REI for camping... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | Jul 13, 2010
Speaking with colleagues, people have asked — “you seem to know something about what’s going on at Starbucks; but really, who’s doing the work?” I just talk to people — being the perpetually curious type. And I ask questions.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Dec 25, 2009
Directing brand design and motion pictures | the framing of storytelling in hybrid contexts Tom Ford | The design of A Single Man It’s no secret that I’ve got an admiration for Tom Ford. Yet, interestingly enough, I only own his fragrances. However, the... Read More
