Search results for: metaphorical thinking
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General | Mar 3, 2008
Saul Bass Saul Bass with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of “Psycho”. I gave a talk for the Arizona Advertising and Marketing Association some time back, and during that presentation — it was actually a conference — Saul Bass was one of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General | Feb 25, 2008
There are known levels of interactivity — is it us, to solely reflect something rightly inter|active? Or is it how something we create that responds to environmental stimuli? We move by something…and a series of triggers offers shifting visualizations,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Feb 24, 2008
Organized by Paola Antonelli, the show opens with an act of high-tech graffiti. A can of spray paint is suspended from a system of cables and pulleys in front of a wall. A small motor guided by computer software winds and unwinds the cables, moving the spray can... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Retail, Trends | Feb 18, 2008
Slow time design by Thorunn Arndottir (Iceland) – clock bead dropping for time measurement (NYTimes) Real Slow | Seeking truth in moving slower I, for one, would comment that my life’s overwhelmed with speed. Getting projects, getting them done quickly, moving... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General, Places | Feb 19, 2008
I’m interested in the work of Herzog & DeMeuron. The Dominus Winery | Napa Valley And who isn’t? Interesting, the art of it — the work that they do. But what I’m fascinated by is the notion of the raw realness of the work — the truth... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General, Places, Retail | Feb 1, 2008
…. I’d written about Ken earlier, the work that he was doing on this sidewalk. I’d surely offer that Tony Goldman, the developer, should be applauded for his winning (and willing) innovation. Must be a visionary, to implement this street art, as an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Storytelling | Jan 24, 2008
There is a mythic dimension in the character of storytelling; it’s an ancient tradition — it reaches to deep archetypes and cyclical patterns that show themselves repeating ways in which messages can be understood and shared — and how they can be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 12, 2007
As a developer of campaign theming, in direct marketing development, ranging from department stores to retail products, theatrical marketing to entertainment design, the soul of the direct marketing story can lie in the very heart of the conceptual visualization... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Luxury, Trends | Jan 16, 2008
What is holding? What is held? What is memory? What is valued? I gave a talk this past week to the Luxury Marketing Council in NYC, and this overview, in recollection, was about truth. Actually, it was about the weaving of truth in product portrayal. And it reaches... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General | Dec 23, 2007
I’ve been drawing — painting — things like this for some time. And, well, they’re flat. There are two dimensions. The black, the white. And the space, between. And then, too, there are translations of the energetic content of the brushstroke... Read More
