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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 14, 2009
(Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams) Jessica B. Lifland | USA TODAY Who stays, who goes? I can’t push too hard on the proposition that I have anything truly ground breaking, in the context of twitterology, the new science of micro-blogging.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 7, 2009
Thoughts on bing, the new search engine for Microsoft Just days ago, the kick off. According to the overview from Microsoft, “the idea behind ‘Manifesto’ is to elicit an emotional response about a concept that is decidedly not emotional.” And... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | May 9, 2009
The examination of nature, replayed in Nature All of us sense the power of the natural, when we can — and when we have the minute to suddenly step out of the urban workworld, and settle into our place in the natural surroundings, which — now and again... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 3, 2009
Seattle Theatre Group’s Celebration of the Arts, in a Newly Defined Event Modeling: Doorways for everyone. During these times, the present financial travails, there are challenges to virtually every institution — regardless of the scale, the import of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Apr 21, 2009
The Letter, the Script, the Legacy: a Cool type & the Human Brand Some months back, working in various parts of the planet, I partnered with Margaret Swart, Scott Dadich, and the team at Wired to create typographic design solutions for the May issue. Or... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Trends | Apr 12, 2009
The idea of place, community and the acculturation of coolness. What about that, the idea of opening with a chart that’s about the crashing of the tech stocks? Well, in a way, that’s a two fold gesture, one’s here, to our friends at Tableau and their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Retail | Mar 23, 2009
Several years ago, at a WWD | CEO Summit, in Miami, I met Leslie Wexner, the fabled CEO of The Limited Brands. Actually, he was waiting to speak at the event, and I went to him, to ask some questions. One questions burned in my mind. Simple, but compellingly powerful... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2009
The concept of the personal brand, in place – what makes a city’s identity? Spending time traveling, as I have now, for the last three weeks straight, I’m now coming to the positioning of questioning my own identity, in the whirring of place. Where... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Storytelling | Feb 23, 2009
How does the framing of sight, and outcome of interpreted visualziations, drive design? And in looking — seeing — do you increasingly tune your sensing of visual content — and the display of it? While it’s surely impossible to define,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Luxury, Storytelling | Feb 1, 2009
A Study of Brand, Truth and Storytelling in Community As a brand consultant and designer, I’ve been working internationally for 35 years in finding the heart of brands. Brands, in a way, that have heart, have an especial place in my practice. Because brands that... Read More