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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 20, 2013
Telling the story by hand and meditation. I can recall designing and writing out a phrasing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, “By hand, which follows mind and meditation.” It’s actually a telling that follows a longer contemplation: “The best of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Jan 18, 2013
Designing the Brand: Yogurt Culture Company, Exploring the Process of Restaurant Brand Ideation Girvin has a deep history in the restaurant trade, particularly in building new brands. The legacy of 30 plus years has led to insights working both sides of the counter,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Jan 16, 2013
The Letter form and the Design of Talismans Over the past several months, I’ve been talking to a younger person about the idea of the place of magic in a sub-current of popular culture [Supernatural;] in a manner, the interest in magic is an ever-popular... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 10, 2011
(iPhoneZenBrush) THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part two Doodles, scribbles, mapping and documentation: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and creative brand business applications for the iPad People fire brands — brands are created by people for people... 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 | Concepts | Feb 8, 2010
Exploring the concept of storytelling, and the nature of attentive reception: brand, life and design. If you’re telling a story, brand related or otherwise, who’s paying attention? Returning from a design summit, in Florida, there was a series of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Oct 26, 2023
How to build brand storytelling for terrifying design narratives Clive Barker It was roughly 40 years ago that I read Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood,” which struck me as a remarkably distinctive turn on the horrifying—as expertly fear-inducing storytelling. Stephen... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Designers, Interior Design | Nov 30, 2022
THE INTERIOR PATTERNED DESIGN LANGUAGE OF TALISMANIKA™ GIRVIN’S SYMBOLIC DESIGN SEQUENCING FOR INTERIORS, FURNITURE AND GRAPHICAL LANGUAGE IN PLACEMAKING. Any designer knows that a simple plane, an empty piece of paper, a coverless book, an empty package or the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Places | Jul 13, 2022
THE ORDER OF PATHWAYS AND THE TOUCH OF THE MEMORABLE M A K E A M A Z E M E N T. As brand designers—as with any part of human creativity, “a making” or the construction of a visible object, the made art or the scribed breath of a poem—the point would be to answer this... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Nov 2, 2020
CONTEMPLATIVE OF HIS PASSAGE, A ROBUST 90 YEARS, THE SEAN CONNERY BOND LEGACY IS A PROFOUND OPENING CASTING: LAUNCH AN UNFORGETTABLE NOTCH IN THIS IAN FLEMING STORYTELLING DEPICTION. AND STYLISTICALLY, ONE THAT REMAINED IN PLAY FOREVER. Suavely cool, sardonically... Read More