Search results for: cinematic production
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
Martha Holmes | Jackson Pollock Time©1949 Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers: exploring concepts of the visual language of creativity, music, madness — and the warmth of humanity in redemption. “Madness is the salt that keeps good sense from rotting.”... Read More
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 | Brands, Motion Pictures | Feb 11, 2013
Design studies for the LOTR and Peter Jackson The process of film identity and brand development is intensely competitive, there are a series of talents, team and agencies whose sole enterprises are focused 100% of the time on theatrical advertising — for an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 26, 2012
Powerful ideas, invention and brand re-alignments, newly imagined. I’m looking for surprise, beauty, spectacle — designing it, looking at it, seeing it, extending that story — the telling of it. To tell anything, there has to be another — the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 16, 2009
Exploring the ideation of identity in theatrical advertising What is it about dogs? How is it, after thousands of years, we have this undeniable link with dogs? We immediately attach personality to them. We see something in dogs? And we see, perhaps, something of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 4, 2023
GIRVIN’s 50 years old—speaking of finely-aged, so we have history, and it runs back to wines that we’ve produced ourselves, gifted wines and wine brands we’ve built for enterprises in the US, Asia and Canada. Wines are, as everyone knows, particularly challenging... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Jun 22, 2022
THE STRIKE OF THE TWIN LIGHTNING BOLTS THE EVIDENCE OF LEGACY | TOM CRUISE AND TOP GUN Titling Design Trailer In my history as a designer of theatrical branding, I’d already been on the run for about 10 years [since Apocalypse Now] of working on motion picture and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jan 31, 2019
THE DRAWING OF MOVIE LOGOS AS A STATEMENT IN THE ARTISAN INSIGHT: FROM MIND TO EYE TO HAND AND THE ILLUSTRATION OF LANGUAGE AND IDEALS. When I was in college, I didn’t really study conventional “graphic design,” in fact, I skipped it altogether. The module on... Read More
by GIRVIN | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 29, 2018
IN THE SCHOLARLY WALK-BACK IN DESIGN TIME, COULDN’T YOU LOOK INTO THE SCRIPTED CALLIGRAPHY OF A TIME OF CENTURIES BEFORE? YOU SHALL STUDY THAT WHICH EXHALED LIFE INTO THE WRITTEN NOTATIONS OF MARY STUART’S ASTONISHING LIFE. You could go back. To go forward, look back,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Jul 13, 2016
The Design of the Doc Savage Logo In GIRVIN’s history as designers for theatrical marketing and advertising, we’ve got legacy, a heritage of literally hundreds of motion pictures — starting with kickoff logo studies for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse... Read More