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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 23, 2009
Image from TechFlash Taking pictures of Microsoft’s opening retail with iPhones. Sometime back, a friend of mine offered to introduce me to the new leader of Microsoft retail. I won’t mention either name, since it’s pointless now — I never... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Jan 15, 2015
Experience Design, Sensationalism and the Layering of Sensuality You’re a…sensualist? You = sybarite? –––– This from an emailing from the lexicographical modeling of Visual Thesaurus below, a word cartographic tool that plays to motion-mapping the interrelationships... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 19, 2013
As you explore the perimeter, you scout the range of the work. In our working experience, and in being a Scout and the magnetism of sensation, you need to get close in, first hand, to understand the nature of a brand, its people, its culture; it won’t be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Jan 5, 2011
Flow, on flow — the fluency of flight, channeling, moving into the rivers of time and momentum. (Pelicans on the south eastern shore) Step in? Go? Watch and wait? Move? Take flight — take action. Conceptions of flow, brand, story, soul — stepping... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts | Nov 21, 2009
Dominic Favre/European Pressphoto Agency Examining the idea of art, branding and passage Being one that focuses the symbolic character of design, and branding, I note with sadness the passage of Jean-Claude, the long-running partner of Christo. Theirs was an especial... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Jan 18, 2011
A Decade of Evolution: technology, evolution, distribution — the music genome project I can recall, in the very beginning, the idea of Tim Westergren’s notes on the concept of Pandora. Back then, an email to Tim would be returned, and that the story of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 28, 2023
THE INTEGRATION OF MESSAGE: GRAPHICAL EXPRESSIONS IN A SCALABLE SOLUTION. TINY CAN BE GIGANTIC, SMALLER CAN BE EMULATED IN A TIERING OF ENLARGEABLE OR REDUCIBLE DESIGN TREATMENTS, NOT MERELY AS DESIGN THINKING—BUT AS A DIRECT LINK THE GENETICS OF THE DESIGN. THE... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 30, 2022
DESIGN STRATEGIES, DEEP BRANDING, METAPHORICAL NARRATIVES Of course, we have a different way of thinking about the alphabet—as designers, as brand fire starters, letter crafters and identity theorists. If you’re thinking about a letter—what’s your favorite? Me? X. As... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Oct 31, 2021
MOTION PICTURE BRAND DESIGN | MACABRE, MONSTROUS, HORRIFIC | STRATEGIC DESIGN FOR THE TWINGE OF TERROR According to a high school buddy, now a Emmy-winning screen writer, horror is the new “it”—at least to his take, that’s what he’s focusing on. He writes with a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Storytelling | May 26, 2021
THE MIGRATION OF SIGILS, SIGNETS AND PATTERNS Isn’t it so that there are devices, objects, that repetitively reveal themselves— during the course of your journey, your work? These are marks that come back to you, your journeys down the lane of the way that you have... Read More
