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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Trends | Aug 28, 2015
Tim Girvin and Jack Larsen, at his Park Avenue Studio A fashion archetype, reconsidered. It’s good to hear that the bow tie is coming back. Somewhere around ten years back I’d moved past that detail — the suit, the oxford shirt, the bow tie. That was a legacy fashion... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands | Nov 3, 2014
The Grace of Handwriting: Soul Drawings It is the physiological nature of our being that what the hand offers reaches back to the psychical current of the mind. In the journey of drawing, learning the way of The Seeing Hand, I was studying the treasury of master... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 23, 2008
Rem Koolhaas A new vision in Dubai is an amalgam of the plain with the bold — OMA & Rem Koolhaas “Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas revealed his concept of “the generic city,” a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 17, 2014
2011, photograph by ©Steve Henke The Agent, An Axiom of Ayurvedic Principles, the Founder of Aveda, Intelligent Nutrients, Moves On. Remarkable people have a weaver-like mingling of a tapestried storytelling that frames out the threading of their lives — they... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Sep 10, 2013
The Craft of the Hand, the Story, the Image Over time, legends come into play. And if you work the craft, follow your inspirations, you can get to where you want to — the legends, the myths, the stories. But any quest won’t be without travails, challenges,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands | Dec 26, 2012
When I was in Bhutan, high in the misted Himalayan mountains, I’d spied a remote monastery and spoke to my guide, Tsewang Nidup about “getting up there.” We did get up there, like nearly every other lonely vista we aspired to summit —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 27, 2011
THE LAYERING OF TEXT | ALPHABET RHYTHMS | GALLERY V THE STATE OF WOWNESS* AS A PERPETUAL STUDENT OF THE ALPHABET, I’M PRONE TO EXAMINE THE MYSTERIES THAT LIE IN ITS STROKING — ONE STROKE, THE FIRST, IS A LINE. ONE LINE, BEGINS THE MARKING OF THE WHO, THE... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands, Scent | Oct 11, 2010
Bertrand Duchaufour at Madison Avenue L’Artisan (photo Tim Girvin) Exploring the context of experience and the interpretation of place — in scent. It’s interesting, the idea of thinking about working in smell and place — exploring the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | May 28, 2007
Randall Stross… Greetings! Nice, your work: Sunday | NYTimes | Bright ideas! | Digital Domain 5.27.07 (Randall Stross) I found your observations on Apple Store, as carefully and clinically precise in their analyses as they could hope to be, I suppose, to be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 25, 2024
The presumptive nature of design is that it’s magical. We’ve commented on this proposition extensively. Design as interpretation Design: it is a transformative tool that translates content from one tier of comprehension to something new—a altered plane of... Read More
