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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Apr 30, 2010
Apple and Flash: Strategic notations Some notes from the man. As a persistent and tireless defender of all things Apple, and the early Girvin working collaborations and design connections with Mr. Jobs — Reed College and Lloyd Reynolds, the later iterations of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | Jan 16, 2010
Notes on notes. Opening a note, the other day, from someone. It was something — an object — that was a carrying of the touch of that person. A notation, a missive, an expression. It’s interesting, the idea of handwritten, the touch, the inner... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 27, 2009
GIRVIN: the early discovery of calligraphy and typographic design: stories, differentiation, craft and beauty. I had an early experience, a blessing, as a designer, working in NYC for the grand luminaries of design. Late 70s. What that meant was courage, perhaps more... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Sep 12, 2009
Apple: Steve Jobs, Applications, App Store and community Indulge me for a moment, would you? Scan this literary framing for a word — below. One word, over time. Think of it as poetry for the instant, prose for the momentous, lines for just now.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 17, 2009
Exploring the origin, development and renewed applications of the word. Brand storytelling, animated in humanized beauty — mind, thought, hand, expression. Calligraphy is beauty and writing, combined. And it’s long been seen as a kind of remote and obscure... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands | Sep 6, 2007
————————- NOTES ON: Marc Jacobs The key to influence is the street. Marc’s work is based on his ascent — and that’s telling. It tells the tales of his visioning, drawn from experience starting from the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 23, 2006
The conceptual gesture, to supporting Shawn McNally’s spiritual exploration, is drawing back to manuscripts hundreds of years old to find the archetypal spiritual exploration that captures the needs and quests of the seeker. It’s all about the voice, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 4, 2006
I spent the day with Balletmakers | Capezio the day before yesterday. It was Cristina and I. Some interviews, some research, some connections. More gathering. This will be going on for a couple of weeks, the two of us. But there were intriguing other insights into the... Read More
