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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 1, 2017
THINK COSMIC: ARCHITECTURE AS A PLACE-MAKING MAP OF THE UNIVERSE: THE CIRCLE OF HEAVEN AND THE SQUARE OF EARTH – DESIGNING PLACES OF DEEPER SYMBOLISM. It’s true that every place has a symbolic value — every place has a sensation of personalized relevance,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Jul 19, 2017
WANDERING, YOU GET OUT THERE — IN A STRAIGHT OR MEANDERING LINE — THERE ARE PLACES TO DISCOVER, MEMORIES TO BE MADE, FRIENDS TO FIND. AND YOU’RE FOLLOWING WHAT BEACON, MAP MADE, LINE TRACED? YOUR PLOTTED LINE, YOUR INSTINCT, THE SUN, A DREAM? DESTINY? Of course, as we... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | May 31, 2017
The Quest for Meaningful Relationships and Memorable Commitments, Magnetic Brands. Strategies of change, impermanence and content: collaborative design and GIRVIN evolutions. I was talking to someone about history — my history — now four decades of continuous practice... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 19, 2017
BRANDISH — THE WAVE AND FLOURISH OF BRAND The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Dawn A. Clark.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 31, 2016
Working from Scratch: Customized Type Face Design, Font Development and Motion Picture Design The presumption is — design by hand and the work is better. Is that right? In the study of aligning idea to shining, brand to epiphany, inspiration to magic — there is the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 7, 2016
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language I was walking a forest, looking at its pattern language — the light, the array of the trees, the patterning of Light on the forest floor, the tread of footprints in the shadowed light of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 24, 2016
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 10, 2012
Stanley Kubrick + Douglas Trumbull > Monoliths on Mars Seeing the imagery of a so-called “monolith” [alá 2001, A Space Odyssey from NASA on Space.com reminded me of a string of experiences — working in Hollywood. During the development of a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 30, 2008
Saying goodbye at the Majorelle Gardens. I did gesture to good bye, at his passing, along with, of course, millions of others — June | 2008. And most of the designers of significance on the planet: http://www.wwd.com/au_revoir_yves And, that closing in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 2, 2016
THE BIRTH OF LIGHT THE QUEST AND THE LEGENDS OF THE LIGHT FINDER I was holding light, an illumination that reminded me of a salamander of the luminous, curling like an embryo — light lizard. This, on a full-mooned night, the radiance spilling down and lighting the... Read More