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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 7, 2016
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language I was walking a forest, looking at its pattern language — the light, the array of the trees, the patterning of Light on the forest floor, the tread of footprints in the shadowed light of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 24, 2016
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places, Trends | Apr 20, 2010
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language It’s been an obsession with me to explore the concepts of brand development and patterning in place-making. And it’s something, as well, that Girvin has been involved with for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 6, 2009
Voyages and patterns in style: Harajuku, Manga Jazz, Ivy League Preparatory — newly vitalized in the Japanese love of the brand. When I’d travel to Japan, I’d leave on Friday, so I’d get there on Saturday, to explore the Tokyo city that night,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 30, 2015
Wabi Sabi and Beauty There is a perspective that things that have lived for a long time are worthy of respect and admiration. Old is more beautiful. You can’t fake old. Wabi Sabi. That Japanese principle of beauty in age comes to a reflection of two principles —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 26, 2015
The Art of Spacing In. In the frenzy of our present experience, we all struggle with the ever-unrelenting issue of connectivity. We need to be connected to everything, all the time. There is a phrase in the context of social and hybrid community management known as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Sep 25, 2014
There is the sign, which is a way — a tool to explain process and direction, to instruct, to mark, to place: made. The Ace Hotel, Expressed Metal Plate But to the notion of place-making, how that sign is made, gesture or stone, or cut metal, wood can tell a layering... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Aug 21, 2014
Studying the Holism of Textual Contemplation [Reading]. In a manner, everything we do as designers comes back to an attribute of reading — that is: how we hold something, how we touch, taste, smell, hear, seek balance and intuit content are all manners of reading... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jun 3, 2014
Isn’t it so — that you find your space — and, it’s you, your story, that will define and make your own place? I walked into a painter’s workplace, a studio – in NYC. It was, to all expectations of pretense, a good studio, a study in... Read More
