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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 25, 2014
The Clustering of Customers, the Typing of People, From the One to the Many As a veteran of hundreds of hours of focus groups, sessions, store interceptions and onsite consumer reviews, I find a forest, but am I close enough to the tree? I was thinking about this the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, Storytelling | Feb 11, 2014
THE DEMOGRAPHY OF EVERYONE The Journey to Knowing Who You’re Talking To As a designer, you need to design to craft and tell stories, create messages and visualizations that connect with people. To link to people’s emotional points of gravity — that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 11, 2013
Design thinking deep metaphors When I was working as a brand / design strategist at Procter & Gamble, on brand innovation, I’d partnered with a closely-aligned colleague there, Iain Douglas. We talked about, and worked on, the layering of ideas — of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 13, 2013
THE DELICACY OF SOUND, VOICING THE STORY, AN UNKNOWN TELLING — PURE SOUND. The most powerful point of sensuality, will be about love, and the intimacy of connection — the closer you are to feeling, the more intimate the power of that sharing. I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2013
Brand, story, object and ritual. The art of the axe, chopping wood, arranging wood, starting fires, it holds a string of stories for many. Being in Portland, a proverbial city of the Axe, has built a culture around the axe. The axe is a splitting adze, a blade that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Places, Retail | Mar 6, 2013
My Experience With Yakuza: the story of Miss Ko, Paris & Brand story in Restaurant Design [GBH] [Imagery, below, from Ko] Brand, patterning, statement, interiors — the graphical interplay of message, story and imagery. One trip to Japan, I was in Kyoto, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Feb 13, 2013
Look, listen, study — the poetry of the birds I am watching the birds, and listening to their calls. More so, I’m watching how they watch. Normally, that’s something that I do with people — watching how they look at things. How do people see?... 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 | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Oct 3, 2012
The Interspace: the new MySpace UI Wide Open — Inner Space — Interface It’s interesting to study the migrations of MySpace, in the challenges of their past failing and flailing attempts to maintain a respectable share of the social online... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Oct 26, 2012
Notes on the Last Letterpress & the Last Paper Seller — DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES IN TRAVELING THE JOURNEY OF THE CRAFT, THERE’S A KEY TO RELEVANCE — IN THE SELLING ENTERPRISE, THE NOTION OF BRAND IN PLACE, BRAND IN THE MIND OF PEOPLE — THERE... Read More