Search results for: brand-instinct
by Tim Girvin | Artists, BRAND MYSTICISM, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2018
CONCEPTIONS OF ITINERANT LEARNING—EXPLORING THE “GO THERE, GET OUT OF HERE” MODELING OF EDUCATION. “YOU COULD LEARN MORE IF YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE.” I was talking to an LA team on my traveling, vagrant-based approach to learning—leaning-in to learn by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 26, 2018
WE DRAW A LETTER AND PRESUME THAT THERE IS A GRASPED MEANING, BY ALL. ISN’T IT POSSIBLE THAT EVERY MARK HAS MEANING? IT’S SIMPLY GRASPING THAT LEGIBILITY; IT’S THAT YOU [MUST] KNOW HOW TO READ [THEM]. OR THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN THIS NEW LANGUAGE AND THE FORMS THAT... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Retail | Sep 19, 2018
SYNAESTHETIC EXPERIENTIALITY AND DESIGN LEADERSHIP As a journeyer of decades of design, all over the world, and in partnering with many adepts in that journey, it’s interesting to study different models of design leadership. There are collaborators and team-builders,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 12, 2018
THE DESIGN OF THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW. Isn’t it so that there’s a pattern? As a person that’s been writing strategy and designing for just short of a half century, I get around. See things. I see into things as a designer and a professional; and I see things as a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 5, 2018
THERE IS A WORD AND A STRING OF LETTERFORMS; AND IN THE CONSTRUCT OF THE TWO, THERE IS MEANING IN THEIR BEING. CONTEXT AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR A DESIGNER, A BRAND AND AN EXPERIENCER. [Above] Tim Girvin shooting words, textures, materials | photo Dawn A. Clark IN THE... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts | Jun 27, 2018
THE JOURNEY OF SPACING-IN AND THE ART OF DOING NOTHINGNESS. I was in a meditation chamber and we were sitting, quiet—as I settled in, quieting down—I watched others getting to the nothingness of mindlessness. Nothing there, quiet in here. And in that, it does come... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 20, 2018
IN THE CRUSH OF THE CROWD, YOU CAN BE ALONE. IN THE MIDST OF THE ALONE, YOU CAN BE ALL ONE. It’s an interesting balance, the idea of the alone. And the all-one. You’re by yourself. And you’re with your self, in the throb of the mob. In terms of the spelling, is alone... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM | May 2, 2018
THE DESIGN OF TALISMANS, AMULETS AND THE PORTALS OF PERCEPTION What if there was an ancient theory about the nature of marking, that the making of marks had a powerful transformative character — a mark is a perceptual portal? One stroke, an idea is born, an energy... Read More
