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by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 14, 2013
Optimizing Experience. In the management of any project, when there is the feeling of all-open creativity, everything’s working, all systems are go, communications are excellent. How does that happen? • First off — the link to the client side. Clear... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Sep 3, 2013
Exploring Creative Place | Design, Teams, Innovation BIG ARCHITECTURE|DESIGN | NYC Traveling the world, as a designer, if one is so motivated, studying working environments, culture and vibe should be part of the practice of seeing into how design thinking happens.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Aug 6, 2013
Designed Magic, Magic Designed. It’s been said that illustration, the real meaning of the word is a shining — to illustrate is “making bright.” But also — to purify. In a manner, thinking about illustration as a craft of communication... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 20, 2013
Telling the story by hand and meditation. I can recall designing and writing out a phrasing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, “By hand, which follows mind and meditation.” It’s actually a telling that follows a longer contemplation: “The best of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2013
Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers — and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Apr 1, 2013
The Book as Sensate Storyteller It’s been said that the book is the most perfectly designed object for “reading.” That is according to earlier conversations with book and type design legend, Bill Hill, typographic theorist and book / tablet reading... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Nov 7, 2012
Rethinking how ideas are shared The explanation of ideals, mapped in a navigation of content. “Where am I going, how will I get there — being lost, I don’t “get where I am” — “having a map, with information, I have a map, a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Oct 22, 2012
Visualizing and organizing the perception of information Cinematic interface design as a reference to example Image above: © Cruise/Wagner + Amblin Entertainment It might be said that the rise of infographics — visualizing, simplifying and organizing content... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Oct 17, 2012
The sensuality of the book I was working in a remote, private room, the so-called rare book library at Girvin | Seattle. It’s a small space, and in this book room, the volumes start at about a yard from the floor, then rise up to somewhere around 10 feet. People... Read More
