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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places | Aug 13, 2013
rAndom International at MOMA. Reinterpretations of cold digital design It’s been suggested by Random that their work isn’t about typical programmable environmental installations that are inherently “unfeeling” and cold, but rather interactively... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 21, 2015
As a designer, a brand person, a journeyer, a wanderer, what know you of fear? I contemplate: metus | fear. Things are arranged; then they are rearranged. Things are stable, then they are unstable. What do you hold to: that which is arranged, that which is not? Is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 29, 2015
THE JOURNEY OF DISCOVERING IS NEVER A STRAIGHT LINE Brand. Place. Team. Community. Who is it, where is it, what is it, who are we talking to? When there is a new inquiry — a brand to be evolved and rebooted in some manner — I make it a point to get out there, wander... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Dec 18, 2014
Isn’t art work? There’s an interesting proposition that art, aligned with leisure, is something relaxing and “easy.” I might offer that the making of art, the impassioned creativity, is never something easy. But instead, with the exception of those in the throes of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 7, 2014
In the game of games, resilience, strength, perception matter. So too in brands. To the allegory of sports, as a gamesman, I tend to contemplate allegory, conceptual alignments, metaphors. Think poetry. Flow. Focus. Speed. Strength. Perception. Flow: In the grace of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Retail | Aug 19, 2014
PRODUCT STRATEGY, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, FASHION, AND THEIR INTERTWINEMENT I was thinking about my relationship with the micro-camera, which — for years, that was a folio of 10s of 1,000s of photographs. After clearing out my files, and reducing the collections, I’m still... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2014
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jun 3, 2014
Isn’t it so — that you find your space — and, it’s you, your story, that will define and make your own place? I walked into a painter’s workplace, a studio – in NYC. It was, to all expectations of pretense, a good studio, a study in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 11, 2014
The Mothering of The Mother In my journey, I’ve studied the creative molding process as a man driven and bidden by the magicspell of making. In college, the 70s, I read Erich Neumann’s monumental undertaking “The Great Mother” which was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2014
The journey of the answer. Anytime you have an answer, there was a question before. And any question is a quest — it’s a journey, from one place of comprehension, the grip of knowing, to the pathway to a step of insight. And in that in sight, you see in. I... Read More
