by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2014
STUDYING THE CREATION OF PLACE IN FILM-MAKING AND COSMICAL INFLUENCES OF ARCHITECTURAL STORYTELLING. When I was in college, I was transfixed by architecture that sought to tell a higher story. Working with the majestic cross-thinking of Professor Lloyd Reynolds, I...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Scent, Storytelling | Mar 13, 2014
A TOUCHING BOOK, CONTEMPLATING 360º IN BRAND AND EXPERIENCE A VISUAL MEDITATION EXPLORING THE JOURNEY; A LEGACY OF THE SENSATE. The human stance of holism. Every journey is a storytelling of sensuality — how you sense and experience the grand sphere of your...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0 | Mar 11, 2014
And Recall the Old Strategies of brand innovation and evolution patterning. Newness. Wowness. Feelingness. Going forward and going back in the quest for the newness of change. IN THE JOURNEY OF ANY ONE, THE QUEST FOR THE NEW WILL BE IN THE HEART, AND THE HEAT, OF...
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent | Mar 6, 2014
The Craft of Making Senses In the spirit of sensate journey, being out there, I was digging around in the basement of an old building in NYC, down south, Soho way. Late 1800s — a subway nexus, just off Houston. While I was there, looking for stories, things...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Mar 4, 2014
Conceiving Story in the Procession of Imagination: the Labyrinthine Mind of Orhan Pamuk The journey in is the journey out, a spiral of movement and emotion — “I turn in, follow, I turn out:” that journey continues. I was in Istanbul for a retail...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2014
Defining locality and brand presence What is on the surface and lies beneath? I was walking in the dark — that, a metaphor unto itself — and looking on the street, with the light filtering and flickering in the wind-riven trees, casting quivering shadows...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Feb 25, 2014
Feeling in the world of design, sensation and brand In the midst of scientific tabulation, the downloading of massive arrays of data, the swirls of crowds, the whorls of trend and the waves of movement, it might be said that ultimately it will come down to one thing:...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Storytelling | Feb 20, 2014
Thinking Through Journey and Customer Procession — the Strategy of Designing a Way for Guests, Clients, Experiencers of Your Story A key to storytelling will be journey. Like the finger guided on the progression of the type, and page arrangement, turned in the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 18, 2014
INTENTIONALLY BLANK? I found this in a hospital room. And I was thinking, “what is it for, really?” This room is intentionally supposed to be blank? Empty? An interesting discovery for a patient. Welcome? You’re here, but you’re not supposed to...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 17, 2014
2011, photograph by ©Steve Henke The Agent, An Axiom of Ayurvedic Principles, the Founder of Aveda, Intelligent Nutrients, Moves On. Remarkable people have a weaver-like mingling of a tapestried storytelling that frames out the threading of their lives — they...
