Search results for: space place
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
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Jun 26, 2014
Could you go slow? In the incipient need for speed that rattles through the channels of our experience, could that potentially be slowed way down? To see and sense more? Take a moment. When I travel, working on brands around the world, I try to come into a place slow.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 14, 2014
A Sense of Place, Design and Experience When I was studying with Reed College’s rockstar+poet+calligrapher Lloyd Reynolds, I spent time with him at his home in Portland, talking, exploring and pouring over his enormous library. We’d write out broadsides,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Storytelling | May 26, 2021
THE MIGRATION OF SIGILS, SIGNETS AND PATTERNS Isn’t it so that there are devices, objects, that repetitively reveal themselves— during the course of your journey, your work? These are marks that come back to you, your journeys down the lane of the way that you have... Read More
