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by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Retail | Aug 3, 2023
The Patterning of a Place, Storytelling Symbols in Space Culturally, any explorer of the world’s architecture will sense and see symbolic dimensions expressed in how places are designed—a cathedral would be an obvious journey-making in symbolic expressions. It might... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Oct 27, 2022
Gunung Merapi, Java IN THE MYSTERY OF THE MIST OF FRAGRANCE Living where I live—here in the Pacific Northwest—I’m constantly ambling in the rain and mist; and I note that scent of place is invariably mist-borne. The ocean calls out many stories, carries many... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2008
On the 20th, last month, I’d connected with a friend, Tim Lauren, to explore the Store One | Starbucks, Pike Place Market. We’d met, examining, talking about brand management and experience planning. Tim comes from the space of experience design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Jan 10, 2010
Dawn Clark|photo Perfume, memory, sentience and wandering; exploring the fume of an experience. Getting around, wandering, I find myself not infrequently smelling my way through places. Scent is memory; it’s the definition of recollection in experience. You can... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2018
THE DESIGN VOCABULARY: VISUALIZATION, MESSAGING AND THE PATTERNING OF IDEAS, MARKS AND MEANING. I had a chance to present, at the behest of the esteemed Mark Anderson a string of ideas at the Strategic News Service presentation of FiRe at the Stein Ericksen Lodge in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Places | Jun 18, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours The second tour was a run, the following morning, out of the city to a place in Mountainville, upstate NY, a long-running gathering of a family tradition in building a sculpture reserve. “People ask how Ted Ogden... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places, Scent | Aug 13, 2012
Creating sensate holism in place-making Color, perception, light — happiness in moment — personal voicing of story and gathered re-collection, all impact the moment of scent, the waft of an instant, reclaimed and recalled. summering scents — could... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 16, 2016
ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR AND CENTERING Walking a old, forested Buddhist compound outside of Tokyo, I was told that the temple site was a specially sacred site — and one that was anciently “magical.” The idea of spirit spaces, places that have special power,... Read More
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... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Nov 24, 2011
ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR AND CENTERING Walking a old, forested Buddhist compound outside of Tokyo, I was told that the temple site was a specially sacred site — and one that was anciently “magical.” The idea of spirit spaces, places that... Read More
