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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Jun 22, 2022
THE STRIKE OF THE TWIN LIGHTNING BOLTS THE EVIDENCE OF LEGACY | TOM CRUISE AND TOP GUN Titling Design Trailer In my history as a designer of theatrical branding, I’d already been on the run for about 10 years [since Apocalypse Now] of working on motion picture and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Apr 27, 2022
Obviously, the question of beauty doesn’t propound solely a complicated design— instead, it could be profoundly simple—so delicately balanced and restrained that it catalyzes disciplined elegance. But when one calculates the etymology—in reverse—of beautiful graphics,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Oct 31, 2021
MOTION PICTURE BRAND DESIGN | MACABRE, MONSTROUS, HORRIFIC | STRATEGIC DESIGN FOR THE TWINGE OF TERROR According to a high school buddy, now a Emmy-winning screen writer, horror is the new “it”—at least to his take, that’s what he’s focusing on. He writes with a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Feb 10, 2021
The Emotional Construct Of Brand Experience: The Wow Moment. CAPTURING WOW IN BRAND MANEUVERS Feelingness? You know the sensation, the moment of wow, which sets into play a kind of cascading—“wow, isn’t that something?” And, hopefully, it keeps going as—“will you look... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Aug 5, 2020
STRATEGIES OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, JOURNEY AND RETAIL PLACEMAKING. Everything’s boarded up, downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill. As Seattleites, we protest. We don’t like something, we will let it be known. Things do get out of hand—by some, not the others. There are,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers | Feb 17, 2020
EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE YOU HAVE AN EXPOSURE TO EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS. PEOPLE THAT SPARK INSPIRATION, AWE AND GRATITUDE, FOR HAVING KNOWN—AND LEARNED FROM—THEM. I think it was more than a decade ago that my one Dawn [Clark] introduced me to “my other Dawn” — as she... Read More
