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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Mar 10, 2010
The Character of the Alphabet and the Maze of Knowing, the Real and Uncertain. What’s real, anyway? And — to the question of “any way, which?” what is the right “reading”? There’s a mystery in the alphabet — one, ages... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 26, 2009
Exploring the construct of brand, community, enterprise and the work that we do. I’ve been a designer for a long time; and working in the creative space is in my blood. My mother was a painter, an artist in every sense of the world, the word. My father is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Jan 20, 2009
Molly Riley | Reuters This morning, early, a deep mist is crossing the channels of Puget Sound — and the foghorns are calling out. I believe they are saying — “I’m over here. Don’t come over here”, or something like that. Which has... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General | Apr 2, 2007
I found this word, and thought of you, Cindy. Nice spending some time with you, exploring your ideas and home, there on 23rd, NYC, looking out to the sunny side of the street, from a dramatically darkening interior. A silky lingerie interior that, in its inherent... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 8, 2010
Harvard Business Review’s observations: cool. I found it interesting that the Harvard Business Review would be identifying the tattoo as a point of relevance to analyzing trend. But of course, it — the trend content — really comes from a hiring... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 14, 2023
The symbolism of the forest as a figural message cartography. To each of us, there is a moment in our reflections on our work that emerges as a contemplation. And in this instance, it’s a meditation of the tree as a tool to organize a communications mapping of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Feb 10, 2021
The Emotional Construct Of Brand Experience: The Wow Moment. CAPTURING WOW IN BRAND MANEUVERS Feelingness? You know the sensation, the moment of wow, which sets into play a kind of cascading—“wow, isn’t that something?” And, hopefully, it keeps going as—“will you look... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Aug 5, 2020
STRATEGIES OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, JOURNEY AND RETAIL PLACEMAKING. Everything’s boarded up, downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill. As Seattleites, we protest. We don’t like something, we will let it be known. Things do get out of hand—by some, not the others. There are,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Oct 2, 2019
YOU UNDERSTAND. YOU KNOW. YOU BELIEVE. We all know that our work, brandspace, will be about the tiering of messages and visuals that enchant the participant. The signature of design is the sewing of that suture—side to side, layered, lit and shadowed storytelling:... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 5, 2019
THE WHORL OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS. A brand is like a spiral—could be a channel, could be the opening of a drain, could be a spigot pouring forth—but in one way or another—it’s a channel: outflow, inflow. Its success will be the fluency of its convergence—the... Read More
