Search results for: experience design place making
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Dec 13, 2009
Brand scent, experience design, attention and distraction. The Hollister Retail Blast | Soho, NYC. I am perpetually curious about the scent of place. Walking into any environment, I find myself scenting it — then calculating what layers of fragrance might I be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, BRAND MYSTICISM, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design | May 31, 2018
THE HYPERREALITY OF SYNAESTHETIC DESIGN THINKING [images from Clodagh] It’s been suggested by many that designing holistically is really the tasking of design towards a sextet of responsive and sensational layers for beings and their experiences in wandering places... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Mar 3, 2009
A presentation in London | Professional Spa Conference + Beauty Summit. I’ve been thinking about the concept of wellness shared — and the communing offering of spa well-making and health generation. Generation, is that the right word — to generate... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People | Aug 4, 2008
Examining the identity, specificity in design, architectures of light — and the creation of place-making: holding and containment in space. This blog is a journey. I find myself exploring architecture a great deal. Pretty much, all the time. What I’m... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Feb 3, 2021
PURPOSEFUL EXPERIENCE DESIGN STRATEGIES, COUPLED WITH INTENTIONALITY. WHEN THERE’S NO PLACE TO GO, WHAT IS THE EXPERIENCE? AMBITIONS IN DESTINATION | RESTAURANT DESIGN STRATEGIES Now’s the time for many that experiences are home bound and under locked-down scenarios,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places, Scent | Aug 13, 2012
Creating sensate holism in place-making Color, perception, light — happiness in moment — personal voicing of story and gathered re-collection, all impact the moment of scent, the waft of an instant, reclaimed and recalled. summering scents — could... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | May 1, 2013
The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer I just told this story recently. I was working with a colleague, in Florida — our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place that would be a kind of learning experience... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Storytelling | Dec 30, 2009
The code of the brand, designing experiences with layers of brand expression — if you’re there, do you know that you are? In working on dozens of retail design programs for more than three decades of experience, or in other environments where the context... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Sep 27, 2024
As you walk a journey—there are symbols in the path of your stride. As a person that has history in building places, thinking design in destinations, I tend to think about everything as a migration of symbolic content. Surely, simply, contemplate walking in a door—you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Feb 1, 2012
Designing in the otherworldly — futurism found and built — in the scarcity of the desert. It might not be certain what the effect of the desert air, broad and brilliant skies, ranges of mountainous channels could be in the sentiments of design and... Read More
