Search results for: experience design place making
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, Storytelling | Nov 15, 2009
Notes on the choreography of experience: brandstories, the art of dance, life and business entwined. A long and complex titling, that is; but it’s the title for an exploration on the alignment between dance and fire, and movement, and life, and love, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail | Nov 1, 2009
Exploring tiny market communities and micro retail — small shopping is beautiful While I’ve (and the Girvin team) had the chance to work on some of the largest retail groups in the world, namely Sogo&Seibu Co., Ltd. (Millennium Retailing) and their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Mar 1, 2009
The line between the story, the visualization, the brand. Story — told. Story — visualized. There’s a thread that runs between the original telling, and the next telling in story — and the next, and the next, and the next. One person tells a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 3, 2023
For motion picture studio teams, agencies and theatrical producers, I’ve been giving these workshop presentations as a proposition to linking marketing strategy, brand storytelling and narrative illustration. In a manner, thinking of movie logos, the identity offers a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 17, 2016
Identity, Story & Experience Design What is the game but a microcosm of life’s journey — and play but a perspective of living life in the fullness of a self-made, self-perceived adventure into the realm of the fantastical, the mystical and the magical? Live large,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Luxury, Places | Jan 26, 2009
Exploring the concept of wellness in experience design and environmental graphics. Two years ago, we began working on the development of the Canyon Ranch Living® | Miami concept in Miami Beach, Florida. It’s open, as of a couple of weeks ago. To their position,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Oct 19, 2009
Customized type face design, font development and motion picture design Over the course of the last 3 decades, Girvin has designed literally hundreds of identity design strategies with hand-drawn typefaces for motion picture main titling design, one sheets, posters,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design | Mar 13, 2013
Designing story, in place, the allegory of nature, space — in making a place I find myself in the study of the symbolic, the metaphorical — and, to the end, the magical. I recall when Apple defined the iPad as ‘magical.” An interesting choice... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places | Sep 11, 2012
Brand, story, patterning in placemaking design strategies in hospitality and destinations IF THERE’S A STORY TO BE TOLD, COULD THAT STORY BE A PAINTING? THE GRAPHICAL PAINTING OF EMOTION, PATTERNING IN PLACE — designing the destiny of destinations. What is... Read More