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...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Aug 10, 2012
Rippling – the metaphor of touch. One story, is another, and another. An other. You tell me your story, and I will hold it to heart, and carry that story as it becomes my own — carried for you, by me. Care, beauty, sharing and community. What is the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 8, 2012
Flying with dragonflies One stroke, drawn, another. Sometimes, in the air, you are tracing lines — like a conductor, lines drawn and gestured in the molecules of motion. That line, in the stroke of air, is your imagination — again, like Nabokov’s...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 6, 2012
Handwriting, the message, and the carriage of content I can look at a person’s handwriting and know how it will work out [their relationship to me.] There are insights in the cartography of writing [handwriting as soul-mapping] — and these interplays: [the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Trends | Aug 1, 2012
Working in Vegas, over the course of four days, we all studied people. Our team was Cathy Mack, Girvin’s San Francisco-based Director of Strategic Marketing, and Gabrielle Girvin [my daughter], Girvin’s Seattle [and firm wide] Social Media Implementor and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 30, 2012
Contemplations on the spin — the whorl of us: our path, the ISS [a night journey]. And a question posed: Where have we been? Where are we going? And what will we do when we get there? Sometimes you need to get way out there to understand about where you’ve...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Jul 27, 2012
T H E S T O R Y O F C H R I S P F E I F E R — A M A N A N D A D R E A M AND FRANK’S REDHOT! What if you had a dream — the perfect new beverage composite — a packaged innovation? How would you make it so? Happily...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jul 25, 2012
Just where, really — are you going? And, if you’re going, are you growing? And why, might be? Shooting words leads to the meditation on their meaning. Sure, you’re thinking that you know what they mean, but what lies beneath that word — could...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Jul 23, 2012
Stephen Kenn > Manly men brands | designing for them — building brand + personal stories about them Embracing the masculine spirit, design, thinking, story and truth in offering. Thinking about a man, and designing for men — it’s a challenging...
by Tim Girvin | General | Jul 20, 2012
The captivation of smoke. Smoke signals, fire, designed motion. [parfumare — “to smoke through.”] The layering of smoke, art, incense, color and the tinting of dust — the tracery of par fum. The smoky signals of journey. I was contemplating...
