Search results for: metaphorical thinking
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 23, 2011
Being a teacher, there’s the line in the sand — the pass: it’s okay; the fail: it’s not. It is the yes, the no — it’s alright; it’s not. Being a strategist, a designer, a writer, plying the work of creative intelligence... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Human brands, Incubation, Places, Scent, Storytelling | Aug 24, 2011
Starbucks, Pike Place Market — the beginnings of a branded world. A brand becomes a world: (tenet, intention, cult and culture, community and audience: engagement + embracement = enchantment). This world, built and evolving — founded on the inspiration of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Storytelling | Aug 19, 2011
sanctum SANK-tum, noun; Alone, this morning, I was thinking about the quietude of the place that I am, the place that I am being in — and I considered — I held, that idea of place and magic. That place of retreat — and respite. Long back, being in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Retail, Trends | Aug 18, 2011
Thinking Craft, Materials Cutting and Computation I’ve been working on a series of journals. Recently, I’d been drawing from a iPad — and learning to craft formats and visuals that cross from photographic gatherings — and scribed, live,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design | Jul 5, 2011
When I think about an experience, it’s always a mix of complex impressions. I absorb. I like to sit and watch — people, interacting with place and content. Sameness is less memorable. In the quest to create perfected brand conditioning, sometimes that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 22, 2011
Pathfinder, the centerpoint of knowledge: Labyrinth do Outeiro do Cribo, Galicia “Sometime, looking for something, somewhere — someday — somebody might be found.” If you’re hungry, how do you understand the nature of food (information)... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Mar 30, 2011
Shimenawa * 注連縄 Girvin The talisman of positive reinforcement and advancement: symbolic strategy, design and the meaning of words. Sometimes, there’s more to an expression that we might at first comprehend. Thoth, the trickster, God of writing Kom Ombo Temple |... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Feb 1, 2011
Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrix The flow of innovations and the interplay of minds. There was an idea, an inspiration, and it was shared, and went from one to another, and another. Then the world knew. It’s interesting that the idea of genius — the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Scent | Jan 21, 2011
www.AndreaMaack.com The smells of stone, fire, snow and the sea — the perfume of Iceland: I walk the fragranced way. Every corridor, is a sequencing of scent. Every road, an avenue of smell. Each pathway, the censed notation. I do dream about the crossing guard... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Jan 5, 2011
Flow, on flow — the fluency of flight, channeling, moving into the rivers of time and momentum. (Pelicans on the south eastern shore) Step in? Go? Watch and wait? Move? Take flight — take action. Conceptions of flow, brand, story, soul — stepping... Read More