Search results for: place making
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2014
STUDYING THE CREATION OF PLACE IN FILM-MAKING AND COSMICAL INFLUENCES OF ARCHITECTURAL STORYTELLING. When I was in college, I was transfixed by architecture that sought to tell a higher story. Working with the majestic cross-thinking of Professor Lloyd Reynolds, I... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Sep 27, 2024
As you walk a journey—there are symbols in the path of your stride. As a person that has history in building places, thinking design in destinations, I tend to think about everything as a migration of symbolic content. Surely, simply, contemplate walking in a door—you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Mar 3, 2009
A presentation in London | Professional Spa Conference + Beauty Summit. I’ve been thinking about the concept of wellness shared — and the communing offering of spa well-making and health generation. Generation, is that the right word — to generate... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Dec 5, 2024
Of course, as a brand person, a place-maker—as you are—we’re thinking: “if you’re not here, and not over there, then where are you? Do you know where you are? Or are you nowhere?” I’ve been talking A LOT about placemaking—and planning spaces, making places—since I’m... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People | Aug 4, 2008
Examining the identity, specificity in design, architectures of light — and the creation of place-making: holding and containment in space. This blog is a journey. I find myself exploring architecture a great deal. Pretty much, all the time. What I’m... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2015
THE WAYFINDER’S ART. THE DESIGN OF SIGNS. Where to? The art of being lost and finding your way. I WAS LOST, NOW I AM FOUND. What of the emotionality of that experience — I’m lost? I’m found. I’m finding my way? To pleas of positioning and geographic self... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 7, 2008
8*8*8*8 — weaving numbers & ideas, energy & good fortune, art & architecture. Reflections on the design of Herzog & DeMeuron and the Asian Basket collection at Girvin | Seattle. I’ve made some notes in the past on the concept of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 11, 2010
Wi-Fi ubiquity: Starbucks + new digital content. What if Starbucks created its own content for Wi-Fi users? Who cares? Concepts of wi-fi contrary concepts in New Dehli, India (Photo by Girvin, story) I say: no thanks. For years (going back a decade) the Cingular,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Jun 6, 2012
There’s a distinction between the sensation of raw space, and the making of place – – a place to be, that can be, held. The nature of holding is about warmth, holding — being held. Etymologically, it might be offered that “relating”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2014
The Journey of Storytelling in the Context of Space, Made Narrative Place. In the past, we’ve written about the idea of cinematic production design — and individual designers and directors — their interplay, and how interpretations of context are made. Interestingly,... Read More