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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 28, 2016
I’m looking for paths. The turning — Every thing turns and spins in its order. What? That? I’ve been out, looking at the stars, pondering the turning — and now, the great waves, that roar and roll, persistently. Listening to the water — the turning and churning, waves... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Feb 3, 2015
Make something. Use your hands. What’s coming back to me is the realm of the personal — that which is made by a person, from that person, to me. As we’ve moved GIRVIN from downtown Seattle [they’re demolishing our building] to the bottom of West Queen Anne, we’ve all... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places, Trends | May 17, 2013
The Waves of Brand Story from the Light When I walk into a place, I think about what I feel. When I watch a person — in my room, my immediate space, I watch them wholly. When I look at, read a story, I try to sense it, that telling, before I do anything else. I... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Mar 15, 2012
Sometimes the best path Is the slow and watchful. Sometimes in the planning of strategy, for your life, brands and other enterprises, striking out the mapping of the path — moving forward: slow down and study the surroundings as you move forward. Pay close... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Interior Design, Luxury, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 1, 2011
WORKING IN PARIS, I’VE BEEN STRUCK BY THE CHARISMA OF PARISIAN RETAIL DESIGN, STORY, PASSION. THERE IS A SENSE OF LIVELY EXPERIENCE IN EXPERIMENT. EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE — how can you build a retail concept that might be simply built in a place, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 29, 2011
RADIATION Z O N E D What of radiant ideas? What of ideas so powerful they spread round the world? What of innovations that embody the radiation of human imagination and commitment — a passion drive to emerge to new platforms of contribution? We’ve been... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jul 25, 2011
Workers at a fake Apple store with an iPad tablet in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Friday. Wong Campion / Reuters The Soul of the Brand Material In the emerging wild east of China, the idea of counterfeiting continues as the savaging of anything and everything... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands | Mar 14, 2011
The Animation of a Story, the Human Brand: Johnny Cash See this, beginning. What to the idea of drawing on drawing — the draftsman overlaying the drafted line; one stroke expands yet another; each, a stroke, telling that story? There’s a distinct... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Scent | Jan 21, 2011
www.AndreaMaack.com The smells of stone, fire, snow and the sea — the perfume of Iceland: I walk the fragranced way. Every corridor, is a sequencing of scent. Every road, an avenue of smell. Each pathway, the censed notation. I do dream about the crossing guard... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Aug 30, 2010
SEEKING INSPIRATIONS | CREATIVE MENTORS: HAROLD BALAZS: THE DEFINITIONS OF DESIGN SPIRIT: A CHILDHOOD, RECALLED GROWING UP CREATIVE | WHO’S THE TEACHER THAT PLANTS THE SEED? Creative [V I B E] is juice, it’s jazz, it’s fire; unquenchable —... Read More
