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...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2013
The Marking of Meaning, Goodness and Brand Storytelling. We think about the idea of design as a kind of signature — with mind, motion, memory and meaning. What is design — but the sign, illustrated. And of course, to signing and illustration, that would be...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Places | Mar 18, 2013
Making a Statement of Identity in the Procession of Experience. Sometimes, as a designer, one cuts to the chase and puts the story right there, out in front. Big. So too the dynamism of Scott Brownrigg’s designed installation of monster identity in the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 15, 2013
The symbolism of the window Thinking design / portals of storytelling / brand / story / insight. In the window to experience, you see in: in=sight. In the window to the object: circumspect — you walk around, surveil from the circumference. In the window to the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design | Mar 13, 2013
Designing story, in place, the allegory of nature, space — in making a place I find myself in the study of the symbolic, the metaphorical — and, to the end, the magical. I recall when Apple defined the iPad as ‘magical.” An interesting choice...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Mar 11, 2013
The angle of listening, listing and leaning | “Lean In,” by Sheryl Sandberg There’s no doubt that Sandberg is remarkable — the incidence of laudations about her come from every degree of the literary arc, including a recent string of notations...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2013
The writing of the eternal return: the perpetual script of spinning time When you contemplate the road forward, there’s a chance to look back, the path that brought you to where you are. [image above, from http://mattgirvin.org/] It’s difficult work, when...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Places, Retail | Mar 6, 2013
My Experience With Yakuza: the story of Miss Ko, Paris & Brand story in Restaurant Design [GBH] [Imagery, below, from Ko] Brand, patterning, statement, interiors — the graphical interplay of message, story and imagery. One trip to Japan, I was in Kyoto, and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 4, 2013
The farmer in you | II Planting the seeds of ideals, dreams, the promise in the mission of creativity I’d written a blog, just back, with meditations on the archetypal character of Dodge’s “farmer in you” advertising. Storytelling from various...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Interior Design, Places, Trends | Mar 1, 2013
Small living, the Footprint of Micro places The delicacy of small, thoughtfully crafted, green-built and well-organized places to live in. Working with a housing development team in Seattle, Girvin’s ideator® naming team built a naming strategy to support the...
