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by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Feb 28, 2008
What is life? smiley groupings, right? —- vivacity, sprightliness, vigor, verve, activity, energy. I go backwards. When I think about life — going back to something that was before, that reaches to the now — and the me that is living now. Life = Body... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Nov 30, 2007
The Tank | NYTimes I had, we had, this job working for Nintendo, which was really about doing mostly packaging for new launches. For about 6 years, that grouping of projects. Hardware gaming packaging design — and all licensee and Nintendo product launches. It... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Luxury | Nov 25, 2007
Todd Heisler | The New York Times I’m wondering about the concept of attention. And the holding of things. How we hold something, how we hold attention. There’s something to memory and holding a concept in one’s mind. For many of us, for me, the idea... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places | Nov 11, 2007
remote connections Kuensel Newspaper On-line Article Link —– At the request of editor Dasho Kinley Dorji, Editor in Chief, Kuensel, Thimphu, Bhutan —- I recently toured Bhutan. And it was a long-held dream for me. Some 40 years earlier, in teaching... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 22, 2014
When you draw a letter, what happens? A drawing is a drawing out; draw a letter, the string of story unspools and it’s something more. A letter is a map, an anciently originated succession of markings, a thought cartography, a seared, scarred, scratched, penned,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 27, 2014
Designing strategies for Movement, People Journeying Into, and Coming From, a Place I was walking a corridor, and it was like a dream — blood red, bathed in blood, a journeying into brilliant light. Except that it wasn’t a dream, but rather a walk in an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Retail | Dec 2, 2013
Designing Signing Message Strategies: the Beginning, and the Ending, of Storytelling. Every story has a beginning, and an ending — each of us has a story, that has one beginning, and another start, and another initiation — and perhaps an ending that we all... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 21, 2013
Branding and The Court of Boom: Design + Squash Racquet Play More than 20 years back, I began to train for the game of squash. I was looking for a complicated, high-fitness game, that was as much about physical stamina and agility as it was about craft — the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Scent | Nov 19, 2013
The Imagination of Designing Fragrance Perfume is a storytelling — it’s a layering of tellings that translate to the alchemy of ingredients. Woods, resins, tinctures of flowers, aromatic leaves, natural ingredients, all combine to build a story that allows... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 26, 2013
The journey out, and the journey back; looking forward to where you’ve been. I was rowing, and as I pull ahead, off the beach and into the choppy slipstream of the salted sea channel, out to the open oceans, I saw that I was rowing away from where I had been,... Read More
