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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Jul 8, 2011
The Concept of the Fragrance — and the Prison. What’s Left in the End of Solitude? Listening to prisoners led Beaux to create perhaps the greatest perfume ever. I listen. I was talking to a prisoner — this, a casual aside — a man who’d... 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, Interior Design | Jun 20, 2011
Sensations in Experience (Design) In working through a series of materials for a new retail concept, it was interesting to see the preponderance of materials that lusted after the slickest vocabulary of finish. Easy to clean. But, to the nature of soul in (brand)... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Jun 17, 2011
Seeking the fiery passion of inspiration: Tom Peters, August 31, 1997 I met Tom Peters, just moments after his (as usual) carefully integrated marketing of “the brand called you” positioning. As ever, he knows how to get the work / word / world out there... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures | Jun 13, 2011
Palaeography, design, historical context and the imagination Theatrical identity design We didn’t work on the movie Thor. In about twenty years of working for Paramount Studios and Warner Brothers, in particular, we’ve worked on literally hundreds of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Jun 10, 2011
THE EXAMINATION OF SENSE: BRAND SOUL, VISUALIZATIONS, INSPIRATIONS There are characters in Japanese aesthetics that most people know — to the concept of objects that are beautifully aged, the character implicit in use, authentic decay, honored “wearing out,”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 31, 2011
when I draw this word in the sand, it changed with the time, the softening wind and the tides — the movement of the world changed that story told, finger in sand. And story became something wondrously new and alive — until: it vanished. “I wrote the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent, Storytelling | May 27, 2011
Perfume Environments: The Scent Visioning of Christopher Brosius Window display, Brosius I’d tried to link to Brosius live, but couldn’t since he was working on project, one that he was focusing on. I did see him at his shop, but held my tongue in reaching... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design | May 13, 2011
Books as objects in the design of interior experience I like books. I like being in places with books. Libraries draw me. Bookshelves captivate me. I love books. There’s something interesting to spaces that have books in them — books enrich place. If the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | May 9, 2011
Girvin The drawn stroke of fragrance, scratched into the memory I go to the scent of drawing. That idea of the drawn scent is something that releases the molecules of creativity — a crayon (of the Crayola type) pulls the waxy molding of the hardened shaft into a... Read More
