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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 10, 2009
The stroke of ideas | calligraphy, lustration and the smoke of being. I’m contemplating the idea of the liquidity of ideas, in the animations of ink, scent, smoke and ideals. I’ve written about the context of this, earlier — the notion of energy and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | Sep 13, 2009
A brand that returns to the heart of design in the recollection of story. In the midst of automobile industrial travails, bank ruptures and dreadful vistas for new car sales, the new G.M. Chevrolet Camaro “sex machine” is changing the tidal surges of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 26, 2009
Exploring the construct of brand, community, enterprise and the work that we do. I’ve been a designer for a long time; and working in the creative space is in my blood. My mother was a painter, an artist in every sense of the world, the word. My father is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | May 24, 2009
Knowledge work, navigated — the endless quest for answers. For decades, the work of Girvin really has been about the reorganization of information. That is, the re-forming of form, in the content of comprehension. All of these words are meaningful to me; and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Places | Dec 18, 2007
Photography by Brent Murray I met Adam in a showing of his new table collections with the restauranteur, Thomas Keller — this was the launch of a line for Christofle. What I find compelling about the spirit of Adam, what he does, is the breadth of his design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Places, Storytelling | Oct 3, 2007
Luxury Retail design and brand patterning, Jakarta Seibu, Java, Indonesia I had the opportunity to partner yet again with Callison Architecture, Dawn Clark, AIA LEED and Andy Thaemert, Doug Shaw and team on the development of an expansion of the environmental design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Oct 21, 2006
*10. MARKETING: INNOVATIVE BRANDING AND MARKETING TRENDS. TIM GIRVIN, designer and founder of GIRVIN, discusses a new expression: Brand Braille. Tim describes this a sa metaphor – a way to transmit a brand message through the creation of a distinctive pattern that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 6, 2024
In my history, I’ve often thought, looking at, literally, any logo—“that could be better.” Or, “why such an off-the-shelf solution—there’s nothing distinct, ownable or registrable with this asset?” Of course, all of us, as brand strategists, designers and logo... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Oct 17, 2013
The Acoustical Messages of Place In my study of experience narrative design and the experiencer in place — for me and for others — I ponder the notion of sound. As a designer of places to be, to tell stories, to share ideas and products, to evoke comfort,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 10, 2012
When you’re looking at something, how closely are you tuned? I was watching people watch. This is a habit. That is, studying people as they “study” — watching to see how people are paying attention. This couldn’t be any more in-depth or... Read More
