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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 22, 2011
Exploring the emotionality of strategy, the humanity of brand, untethered creativity and the tactics of design management. EXAMINING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE We’ve got history in the balance between the concept of the crossroads of creativity and intelligence, as... 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, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 28, 2020
BRANDS ARE, IN ACTUALITY, WORLDS. THEY ARE WORLD VIEWS, THEY ARE PLACES AND ENVIRONMENTS, DIGITAL REALMS; THEY ARE SPARKS OF IMAGININGS; AND THEY ARE THE QUANTIFIED AND ACTUALIZED DREAMS OF FOUNDERS AND FOUNDRESSES. THEY ARE THE RISK AND COMMITMENT OF SWEAT: \LOVE,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Trends | Oct 27, 2016
ANALYZING HOW [WELL] IT WORKS The spiral of brand experience design: Girvin’s red thread of connective analyses The Analysis of the Context of Place-Making and Food Design Working for decades on the propositions of food experience — from luxury dining to kiosk... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Interior Design, Places | Nov 28, 2012
The sense of place, design, imagination and spectacle. The seeing eye, touching place, designed inspiration of Robert Irwin Earlier in my life, I was on the COCA team that ideated bringing James Turrell to Seattle — decades before, “seeing the light... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Oct 19, 2012
The scent, the mist, the water. Morning crossing, Fidalgo Straits. (Photo credits ©Tim Girvin, 2010) Exploring the mist of scent, place and recollections Reaching back, in history and memory — a series of notations and reflections, about the heart of experience... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent, Storytelling | Jan 31, 2023
STORYTELLING PERFUME AND THE SENSATION OF PLACE THE WANDERING WONDERMENT: AN EXPLORATION OF MEMORY AND SCENT I’m walking the city, or the forest, or the beach— and what comes forth? “What’s that smell? It reminds me of…” Scent memory: it’s right in the front of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 22, 2020
THE EXAMINATION OF INTENTION, PASSAGE AND MEANING— THE BRAND, THE STRATEGY, THE JOURNEY. IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO FIND THE DEEPER SIDE OF BRANDS, WHAT ARE THE RITES OF PASSAGE—GETTING THERE: CLOSER TO SOUL, HEART, INTENTION, DIRECTION? CAN BRANDS LIVE—could they be alive?... 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
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 23, 2008
Rem Koolhaas A new vision in Dubai is an amalgam of the plain with the bold — OMA & Rem Koolhaas “Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas revealed his concept of “the generic city,” a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and... Read More