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by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
This is the first in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. You’ve got to find what you love. Steve Jobs There’s passion here for me. Because I can personally relate to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2008
On the 20th, last month, I’d connected with a friend, Tim Lauren, to explore the Store One | Starbucks, Pike Place Market. We’d met, examining, talking about brand management and experience planning. Tim comes from the space of experience design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2015
What is the way, found? I was thinking about this. In the context of the work that you do. And what we do. I’ve wondered about that, the character of being lost, being found. Finding your way. And there’s a part of the work that we do that is just about that — helping... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 3, 2015
Getting to the soul of things. What is a thing? I’ve wondered about that. A thing. thing I look into the place of where words go, where they have been, and what stories they tell: O.E.D: “meeting, assembly,” later “entity, being, matter” (subject of deliberation in an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Oct 27, 2015
HOW FLOW WORKS Earlier, I corresponded with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the scholar and author of “Flow.” His studies of the concept of flow and the optimal experience are legendarily groundbreaking. I found the idea of the perfected state, the flow state, to be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 14, 2015
Girvin, Inc. The Art of Seeing Slower: Examinations of Focus, Attention and Precision — the Slow Time: the art of looking slow. I spent some time, working in, and exploring, Florida — some: Sarasota; some: Miami; some: Plantation. I gave a talk down there, a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail | Aug 4, 2015
The Individuation of You-ness, Brand Assets, Persona and Personality. When one contemplates the journey of a brand, a team and the enterprises of their making, a sense of the you emerges. Quest – that journey, is a question, that lays the foundation for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 10, 2015
The Context of Message, Framing of Context and Visualization I look for signs that aren’t signs — in a conventional sense — they tell another deeper story, but sigils that signal a message that stand for the nature of a place. Cairns, ovoo, iwakura no mononoke,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Feb 19, 2015
BRAND PRESENCE, PARTICIPATION AND SENSUAL DESIGN You’re here, right? That is: right now, you’re presenting, you’re present: you’re here? When you’re walking a space, trying to create a place — something unforgettable — you need to be in here. Present and focused,... Read More
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
