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by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Jan 4, 2013
Retail Brand Language: The Layering of Patterning. The design language of brand patterning. Brand patterning, psychic patterning — the hidden and the obvious messaging of place-making and experience, designed. I was watching some people in a place, and watching... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 3, 2012
The crafted design of layered stories, the mischief [and surprise] of what is unseen, and hidden — and the obvious ploy to plotted attention: the art of intentional concealment, personal secrets [held and shared], storytelling explication and the unfolding of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Sep 6, 2012
Amazon retail, a theory [Girvin]– bricks and mortar? Brand, retail, retelling, retooling, rethinking. Retail and community, brand storytelling as a reflective sharing — the story of place, of culture, of wonder, embracement and connectivity. There is a... 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
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Scent | Mar 18, 2011
Girvin The dark tars of wood, fire, ash and burning. Scents as evocations — the voice of the object and the emanation of its story. I contemplate the splitting wood — cracking open the fragrances with an old axe. Burning the wood in my studio stove, I can... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Oct 13, 2010
Mapping concepts of gaming procession and built design: exterior brand experience storytelling (what’s this place about?); entry into the gaming world; sequencing gaming technology (red circles) for luck perceptions; creating visible targets for more hospitality... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 7, 2009
Designing the brand as an excursion into the extraordinary: imagination and digital place-making in adventure. Girvin has thrived — and designed — for decades in the extraordinary, the enchanted, imagined environment as a place of design marvelment; since... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Jun 8, 2009
What brands face, in Facebook? Many, if their culture is robust enough… In the metaphor of communing, there are layers — circles — of connections that we have with each other and our friends. A drop, ripples. Stories are told — they are shared,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 1, 2009
Fire, the long river and the mist in the motion in learning Some time back, I was speaking (and working with) with a writer — Kurt Dahl, a IT manager and strategist then for Nordstrom, about the idea of the future of the book. He didn’t really believe in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | May 9, 2024
The Quest for Creative Inspiration, Imagination and Personal Iconography I photographed this bird in the Himalaya— in Bhutan, a place of the Raven Gods. As some know, I have a long history with Ravens—the birds. This comes from earlier, childhood and mystical... Read More