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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Jan 15, 2015
Experience Design, Sensationalism and the Layering of Sensuality You’re a…sensualist? You = sybarite? –––– This from an emailing from the lexicographical modeling of Visual Thesaurus below, a word cartographic tool that plays to motion-mapping the interrelationships... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail, Trends | Sep 30, 2014
Brands, Logos, Communities Being in the business of design, and with a long history of work in the translation of the storytelling of brands into graphical interpretations, the logotype is at the center of brand style. And while there might be many layers of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 9, 2014
Brands That Have Nothing To Say. As a designer, I think about layers. And I think about messages. Content. Holism. Contentment. Direction. There is a sign, but it’s empty. It has nothing to say, no place that it points. It’s nowhere. Like experiences that move from a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 26, 2014
What is the thing? As in every thing, I begin as a writer, I look into the heart and history of words, to learn more about their original heat — what was their sparking ignition? I contemplate my use of many words as deeper meditations on patterning. Where did the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jul 10, 2008
Exploring scent with Hoteliers and Perfumers Sebastián Alvarez Murena and Marina Sersale. Foto by Dawn Clark, AIA Imagine the idea of creating a scent that captures the spirit of your hotel. Or of your life. Your hotel: decades old – lying, heated in the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 23, 2008
Rem Koolhaas A new vision in Dubai is an amalgam of the plain with the bold — OMA & Rem Koolhaas “Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas revealed his concept of “the generic city,” a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Mar 8, 2008
The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Paula Rees. She’s a placemaker. Her... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Incubation | Jan 30, 2008
In a way, this story is about shifting brand visioning. And it’s early enough, for this story, this client — that I can’t really reference the brand name. But people ask, what is it like — what do you do? What happens? Brand development and the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Jan 25, 2008
I’m always looking back. But never staring. All ways looking. In all ways — exploring. Looking deeper. And in way, that’s something to the way the we work, we think. Look deep. Go further. Be in: their there. Where they are. What that means is doing... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Sep 4, 2007
Hi and good morning. Starting off, after the absence of Labor…day. Welcome back! —- Here’s a story about a story. The thing that I believe in, personally, is that it’s sometimes hard to imagine that small things really matter — but they... Read More