Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Trends | Jul 21, 2008
Exploring brand in the context of experience design and impression: movie picture brand strategy. I’ve liked Christian Bale’s impression of Bruce Wayne since the beginning; but I’m anticipating that Christopher Nolan drives a great deal of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 28, 2008
Examining space, patterning, experience, design, memory and placemaking. I’ve been exploring the idea of pattern in space. But more about space, and surprise, and story — in place. And I continue that exploration. You know that. What about this? Space... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008
Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 7, 2008
Exploring the principles of art, craft, making and the philosophical vision: Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/ What about Takashi Murakami? “the difference inherent in Japanese and Western artistic practices, and the... Read More
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, Designers | Apr 1, 2014
Wonderment and Wow. I realized that for me, the sense of wow, and the state of wowness, suggests the bridge to wonderment. I’ve written about wow in the past. Wow is a Scottish word from the 1500s — and it links to amazement. One might suggest that to be... Read More
