Search results for: experience design place making
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2016
What do you know, anyway? Enchantment, engagement and embracement in the layering of brand messaging, visualization and experience design. The quest to know? The mystery of mind, message and meaning. What about that question, I was contemplating it — someone asked me:... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Dec 30, 2014
THE SMELL OF EXPERIENCE: THE HISTORY OF EMPIRE & THE DESIGN OF SENSATION I was talking to a friend and client about the notion of brand in sensationalism — the holism of experience strategy. That comes down to one point, a reflexive point — how big do you feel? We... Read More
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 | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Places | Jul 13, 2022
THE ORDER OF PATHWAYS AND THE TOUCH OF THE MEMORABLE M A K E A M A Z E M E N T. As brand designers—as with any part of human creativity, “a making” or the construction of a visible object, the made art or the scribed breath of a poem—the point would be to answer this... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Places | Jun 21, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours During a run at TED, there was an architect that I’d always been curious about — a woman whose work ranges far beyond the competent; she’s a thinker, a strategist of place, the visionary practitioner of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Jul 17, 2009
Girvin | Movement: examining place, foundation and the archaeology of brand experience Girvin is moving, after a couple of decades in the same place... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Places | Jul 10, 2009
Barney Taxel for The New York Times The place of the personal, the family and human branding in building place(s): The Marons | Cleveland During the course of Girvin’s work, over the range of the last several decades, the family connection — in examining,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Oct 22, 2020
ANY BRAND HAS TO THINK ABOUT ITS PLACE—THE PLACE THAT IT MAKES: HOW PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IT AND HOW THE STORYTELLING THAT IS REVEALED—AND, IN THAT, HOW THAT FEELS. I learned about brand and place-making earliest in my career—at the very beginning—college trade—painting... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM | May 24, 2018
I AM WALKING THE FOREST, EXPLORING THE DEEPER PLACE OF ARBOREALITY; THESE TREE TAPESTRIES ARE LONG-MADE, OLDER GROVES, THE ONES THAT HAVE DARKER PLACES ADMINISTERED BY THE OLDER AND BIGGER TREES. You might ask, what is the symbolism of the tree in the context of what... 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
