by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 13, 2017
TO GO FORWARD, YOU GO BACK. WRITE WHAT WAS. In my own experience, the study of the craft of design — which is, as we have explored — the signing of persona and intention, message and visual character, personally interpreted. To presume that a designer acts as a kind...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 16, 2017
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S NARRATIVE WEAVING IN DUNKIRK I saw Dunkirk the other night, and it was interesting to study — to watch and walk the design and the holism of its building: the place that it makes in mind, heart and sensation. The building of the design of the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Aug 2, 2017
THE MYSTICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE ALPHABET To know the past is to know the future. So in grasping the past, I look into the words to build design strategies — and what it means in the craft of the work, as well as the solution-finding of design [un]thinking. That is,...
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Jul 19, 2017
WANDERING, YOU GET OUT THERE — IN A STRAIGHT OR MEANDERING LINE — THERE ARE PLACES TO DISCOVER, MEMORIES TO BE MADE, FRIENDS TO FIND. AND YOU’RE FOLLOWING WHAT BEACON, MAP MADE, LINE TRACED? YOUR PLOTTED LINE, YOUR INSTINCT, THE SUN, A DREAM? DESTINY? Of course, as we...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Jul 12, 2017
THE RISING CURL OF A WAVE STARTS AS A QUIETING PEBBLE DROP — THEN IT WHISPERS, RIPPLES OUT — ONWARDS. MURMURING, THERE IS A TREMOR — AND NOW IT’S A WAVE. TREND ON — TSUNAMI UPLIFT. Waves curl as a spectacular metaphor — just in their very movement, analogous to...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 28, 2017
CONCEPTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS OF INTIMACY: BRAND LOVE-MAKING? What’s the path for engagement? How does a brand move from enchantment, to engagement, to the interlacing of embracement? What is the way that people hold on to the storytelling of a brand in a manner that...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places, Trends | Jun 21, 2017
THE JOURNEY OF LOSS, FINDING, FORGETFULNESS AND THE EYE OF SURVEILLANCE. My Mother taught me about watchfulness and listening. Of studying situations, examining human movements, physical linguistics, moments and interactions, ticks and tells, notes and reveals — as an...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Jun 14, 2017
FUTURE FORWARD | BRAND STRATEGIES AND INTENTIONAL IGNITION TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE. Brief creativity? Can creativity be defined in a brief? Probably not. What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? In a cycle of a half-decade, more often than not,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 7, 2017
THE BASTARD LETTER | LITTERA BASTARDA, JON SNOW & THE CALLIGRAPHY OF THE GAME OF THRONES GIRVIN CALLIGRAPHY CLASSES WALK OUR TEAMS BACK IN TIME — THE CRAFT AND HISTORY OF THE LETTER, A JOURNEY IN PALAEOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL HISTORY. What was drawn then, what was...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | May 31, 2017
The Quest for Meaningful Relationships and Memorable Commitments, Magnetic Brands. Strategies of change, impermanence and content: collaborative design and GIRVIN evolutions. I was talking to someone about history — my history — now four decades of continuous practice...
