by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 13, 2014
WHAT THAT COMES DOWN TO, IS WHAT TYPE, ARE YOU? When I interview people, prospective employees, client and team interviews, I watch for handwriting. How does a person sign their name, how do they take notes, how do they hold a pen? Everything tells a story. In...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, Storytelling | Feb 11, 2014
THE DEMOGRAPHY OF EVERYONE The Journey to Knowing Who You’re Talking To As a designer, you need to design to craft and tell stories, create messages and visualizations that connect with people. To link to people’s emotional points of gravity — that...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Feb 6, 2014
I want to trust you, but should I? Do you trust me? Do I trust myself, my instincts — what’s true? Pondering trust and inspiration, I was thinking about Rei Kawakubo, foundress of Comme des Garçons, a hands-on woman entrepreneur, designer and innovator...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Feb 4, 2014
THE BRAND AND FRAGRANCE STORYTELLING STRATEGIES OF COMME DES GARÇONS “There is no plan.” Rei Kawakubo As a blogger on design, and on perfume, and architecture, I’m always looking for threads, entanglements and weaving between lines of thinking action...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Jan 30, 2014
The Stroke of The Hand, Like Touch, Says It Real. Best From The heart. Touch me. Touch you. Hello & Good bye from me. When it’s time to say goodbye, it is, truly — “parting is such sweet sorrow.” And, the expression of sorrow isn’t...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 27, 2014
Designing strategies for Movement, People Journeying Into, and Coming From, a Place I was walking a corridor, and it was like a dream — blood red, bathed in blood, a journeying into brilliant light. Except that it wasn’t a dream, but rather a walk in an...
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jan 23, 2014
You smell. Where you go, where you’ve been, what you remember is what holds you. You have a scent, whether you’re wearing a perfume or not. And you’ve smelled things, places you’ve been, things you’ve remembered. What were they? The point...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jan 21, 2014
Don’t go here. Walking an old and beautiful island road, I found this turn off, along with a metal cut-out signing warning: “No.” Why not? What “no” out there?” Of course, I went out there. I can recall a time when I saw a Charles...
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jan 16, 2014
THE PERFUME THAT FOLLOWS YOU. As you’re walking the street, a hallway, a waft of scent flows by. Multiple “perfumes of place” drift — if you’re open, you’re scenting them. As well, you’re scenting — the fragrance of you,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 14, 2014
A Sense of Place, Design and Experience When I was studying with Reed College’s rockstar+poet+calligrapher Lloyd Reynolds, I spent time with him at his home in Portland, talking, exploring and pouring over his enormous library. We’d write out broadsides,...
