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by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jan 16, 2014
THE PERFUME THAT FOLLOWS YOU. As you’re walking the street, a hallway, a waft of scent flows by. Multiple “perfumes of place” drift — if you’re open, you’re scenting them. As well, you’re scenting — the fragrance of you,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jan 14, 2014
A Sense of Place, Design and Experience When I was studying with Reed College’s rockstar+poet+calligrapher Lloyd Reynolds, I spent time with him at his home in Portland, talking, exploring and pouring over his enormous library. We’d write out broadsides,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Storytelling | Jul 18, 2013
Billboarding, postering the story in the story in the story. [Imagery from PSFK] We’ve designed dozens of posters, an earlier legacy of work. But we love this Black Sabbath promotion, pointed out by Daniela Walker and “DaBitch.” As Daniela notes,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Human brands | Jul 9, 2013
Designing the Hand-made Letter Craft of a Human Brand What the person is, show shall his signature tell his story. The signature is a graphical amalgam of emotion, traits and experiences that craft the character of the hand, the gesticulation of time, the musculature... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures | May 23, 2013
Visualizing the layering of identity: Iron Man I was moving through, collecting and organizing some earlier Girvin studies for Paramount Studios, and hanging out in the theatre, looking at titling treatments, graphic identities for films and one sheet theatrical... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Feb 4, 2013
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SIMPLEST PRODUCT DESIGN AND ITS VARIATIONS TO UTILITY. In the spirit of exploring the hand made, old-tech and the utility of the obvious solution — from clothespins to pencils, I was talking to two people on two different bents. Girvin... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 26, 2012
Signing [and storytelling] buildings = building brand, branding buildings: Designing customized retellings of the principle of buildings, their architecture and way finding. And selling them. Earlier, in our legacy, opening forays into signing systems, we worked with... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | May 2, 2012
Frustro, Martzi Hegedüs and Escher The puzzlement of design, translated as an impossibility of form in space. A friend of mine, type and design hunter, blogger and musician, Stuart Balcomb [Los Angeles] pointed this reference out — the font. Earlier in my... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places, Retail | May 1, 2012
Travel, brand, retail, explorations: The 9th International Retail Congress Seminarium. The focused walking-study, explorations of design and human-place, place-making, retail storytelling, cultural impressions and insight in presence. Just got back, last week. [all... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Places, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2012
Any restaurant brand follows a sequence of dream, to visioned story, a name — articulation in space, made to place. Space = cavitation + emptiness, silence and aloneness. Place = warmth / humanity / beauty + containment / story [and possibly: spectacle] Our... Read More
