Search results for: metaphorical thinking
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jul 12, 2008
Exploring the renaissance mind of Lorenzo Villoresi: Scholarship, legacy and the genetics of exploration — a history of fragrance creativity. Sometimes you find a person that seems like someone you’ve encountered before. Perhaps in another life, another... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Oct 22, 2008
The heart of the genuine: exploring the concepts of authenticity, history, brands and the place of luxury. I’d open with the meaning — and the combinational character of the idea of truth fullness — and its apparent luxury in telling — are true... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Feb 17, 2008
What is the way, found? I was thinking about this. In the context of the work that you do. And what I do. I’ve wondered about that, the character of being lost, being found. Finding your way. And there’s a part of the work that we do that is just about... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jan 31, 2008
3000 years ago, the notion of finding the heart of a word was to seek the real thing. Then, it was believed that the spirit of the thing resided in the word. By calling the name of the entity, one would imbue, or bring forth, that phrasing with the immanent power of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 2, 2016
THE BIRTH OF LIGHT THE QUEST AND THE LEGENDS OF THE LIGHT FINDER I was holding light, an illumination that reminded me of a salamander of the luminous, curling like an embryo — light lizard. This, on a full-mooned night, the radiance spilling down and lighting the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Jan 12, 2016
David Bowie | Passionate Blood: the emergent hunger of the darker side and the Quest for Light. Exploring the quest of Light and the Dark — the preternatural (brand). I’ve made some observations in the past, about the patterning of passage: people die; and human... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Dec 15, 2015
BRANDFIRE | Conceptions of Passionate Brand Leadership Exploring the detailed visioning of leadership in brand management. This article appeared in the June issue of Arcade | Architecture and Design in the Northwest. Fire. BRANDFIRE | A culture of passion What lies... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 12, 2015
Lines of thought: sight lines | NYC, LONDON, COPALIS, DECATUR ISLAND, AND SEATTLE What about lines? Light lines. Lines of journey — pathways of the mapping lines of place, to place. I go someplace — and my swirl of journey is all the string of a line, captured. I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 29, 2015
The Walk of the Early Morning — look out. An earlier meditation: I was out walking, just dawn, the southern shoreline — at the southernmost reach of the United States. Stars loom and gyrate on the bounding arc of Heaven. Tide churns. An oceanic river, flows. Out... 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
