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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Aug 4, 2016
Start-up Brand Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Wachowski Brothers and Stan Lee. By Tim Girvin — with Social Media commentaries and recommendations by Fletcher Helle When there is a lesson to be learned, listening makes for the best course of cumulative action. Learn and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Oct 23, 2019
Notes on signing, wayfinding, alphabets and recognition. When you are lost, where do you go, what do you do? Some would say, “I’d look at my phone.” Or “I’d look at the Sun. Where is it, anyway?” You can, metaphorically, look for a sign—some augury that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Oct 3, 2018
ALPHABET DESIGN VISIONING AS THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF BRAND IDENTITY As a brand designer, you’re thinking—“where is this business going?” “What’s the point, who cares, what’s it about—how’s it going to work?” And then, after these opening queries—that project work comes... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2018
THE STRATEGY OF DESIGNING MOTION PICTURE BRANDING. THERE’S A PATTERN LANGUAGE, WHICH IS SENSUALLY INTERMINGLED. IT IS DESIGN, PLACE-MAKING, CHARACTERIZATIONS, CINEMATIC STYLE, SOUND DESIGN, MUSIC. ALL ARE PART OF THE TELLING. To that telling: how is it that the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Storytelling, Trends | Jun 8, 2018
PATTERN COMPUTER LAUNCHED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA. [image: Pattern Computer] What if there was a unique way to surveil vast rivers of data and see rippling strings of insights in a wholly new manner? It should be said that the notion of seeking trends and patterning is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Designers, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0 | Nov 8, 2017
THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE MIND: FROM THOUGHT TO WORD IN DESIGNED LETTERFORM LINGUISTICS | ALPHABETS AS BRAND VOCABULARIES. Working on hundreds of logos and corporate identity packages, in decades of design and brand development for clients around the world, over time... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Jun 14, 2017
FUTURE FORWARD | BRAND STRATEGIES AND INTENTIONAL IGNITION TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE. Brief creativity? Can creativity be defined in a brief? Probably not. What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? In a cycle of a half-decade, more often than not,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Nov 9, 2023
The Art of the Shopping Bag It was a reminder from friend Steve Heller, the Design Editor in Chief at Print Magazine, that recalled the legacy of former Bloomingdale’s Chief Creative Officer, John Jay— in the following notation from the Magazine: “Jay’s bags also... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Storytelling | Aug 9, 2011
The Naming of Things THE MYSTICAL ROOTS OF THE GATHERING OF NAMES. An ancient principle of voice struggles in the subjective empowerment of words — as vessels for improvised ideas — and the named premise of ideals. I’ve written in the past about the... Read More
