Search results for: brand patterning
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Jul 17, 2009
Girvin | Movement: examining place, foundation and the archaeology of brand experience Girvin is moving, after a couple of decades in the same place... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Motion Pictures | Apr 24, 2009
Studying the music, the mind, the meaning — cinematic brand strategy and design. The mind of the soloist, the split mind in the brilliance of the schizophrenic — how is the passion of melody, of harmony, newly sensed and seen? Last night, I was talking... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Dec 30, 2022
THE EXPLORATION OF THE PERSONAL JOURNEY, FIREBRAND, STORYTELLING AND THE QUEST FOR THE NEXT, THE NEW, IN THE REFRESHED HORIZON. Each of us—we get out there—the farther reach beyond our circle. We walk out there, further, in some manner. To each, they take their own... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 18, 2022
IN EVERY ENCOUNTER THERE IS THE LOOK—THE APPEARANCE— OF WHAT’S ON THE SURFACE. AND THEN THERE’S: WHAT’S UNDERNEATH, THE BEHIND, THE SHADOW—THE DEEPER GLANCE. S O M E T H I N G M O R E Even in the digital space, there’s a story above, there’s a story below, there is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2020
WAVE PATTERNING IN BRAND STORYTELLING—THE LONG NOW. [Image By @DacArc, Copalis, WA] ONE WOULD PRESUME THAT THE MOVEMENT OF A WAVE, WHETHER WATER-RIVEN OR SONIC BLAST—LIGHT, FOR THAT MATTER—WOULD SIMPLY GO ON FOREVER AND EVER. ONCE IT STARTS, IT JUST GOES— IT’S OUT... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Mar 14, 2017
THE LEGENDARY SYMBOLISM OF THE HATCH MARK, THE HASH TAG, HATCHING STROKES AND THE UBIQUITOUS # DESIGN THINKING, ARCHETYPES AND ALLEGORY. In a manner, this speaks to the symbolism of place, that was just my journey this past week in Boise, ID — talking then to the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 17, 2016
Designing Alphabets, Messaging and Meaning. The alphabetic coding of “The Matrix.” The metaphors of threading content, digital rain, flow and the loom of meaning in context I was talking to a team of students from my college days, reteaching, again some of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2015
What is the way, found? I was thinking about this. In the context of the work that you do. And what we 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 that — helping... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2013
Brand, story, object and ritual. The art of the axe, chopping wood, arranging wood, starting fires, it holds a string of stories for many. Being in Portland, a proverbial city of the Axe, has built a culture around the axe. The axe is a splitting adze, a blade that... Read More