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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 13, 2013
The Whorl of Making and Imagination Sometimes when I’m thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle — I draw my self into it, and out of it. Above, my little finger on an iPhone. Below, the dinner table and a team meeting,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2013
Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and the explosive splatter of haboku. When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound — the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke of the brush on the stock. We worked on... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2013
Building brand identity around story, environment and experience The design of a gaming world is a multiple year commitment, and a spectacular investment — especially when the notion of a gaming world coincides with the conception. Some never make it, fueling... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Apr 12, 2013
Star Trek Two Working in the motion picture business, as a designer for theatrical advertising, the potential of working comes from making introductions, reaching out: connecting. It’s always a journey, the explorations, the examinations, the labyrinths of time,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 5, 2013
Exploring brand culture, in a circumspect study I was talking to a client about getting into a place — “when you’re in, what do you see, what do you sense?” Being one that works in retail and restaurants, as an experience designer, I tend to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2013
In the spirit of light, storytelling illumination. The character of what can be seen, in scene, the drama of Light. As an intensely curious person — a person that seeks out answers by finding the people that build things, do things, make things, one of my... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Places, Storytelling | Feb 15, 2013
The patterning of time and the Creative Journey The timing of pattern, the layering of story, the weaving of ideas, a tapestry unfurled. The work of living — is a rippling — a stone, cast, water bound, rippling, outwards. As those waves reach a shore, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 8, 2013
There’s a story in the story, there’s a poem in the poem, there is a place within the place. [image: girvin | Seattle, 2012] In the realm of any study, the student realizes that there are layers to comprehension — one understands the bare facts,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Jan 2, 2013
Windows as the Eyes of the Soul of Wellness The tradition of windows in the merchandising of ideas. At the street level, a building’s windows are, in a manner, the eyes and soul of the bridge between the heart of the building, its occupants and the brand that... Read More
