Search results for: place making
by GirvinIT | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 19, 2022
In our experience, brands are—and should be—on a perpetual move, never quiet, always exploring, evolving, tuning and turning to new relationships and communities. And most brands do—with forward thinking leadership, they’re thinking—“we’re missing something here, we... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2020
BRAND DESIGN, INSPIRATION, CONSTRUCT AND MEANING The quest for the right place of brand identity—starting with strategic foundations of name, story, stance, personality and chromosomal attributes, integrative and experiential tactics—extends to look, and, inherently,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 14, 2020
CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE LOVE OF BEING. AND THE PLACE OF HAPPINESS. YOU COULD LOVE BEING. HAPPY. You get around, you look and you learn. Borobudur, Java And when you really get around, go deeper out there; you can see people that—to our view—might be experiencing deep... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Storytelling | Dec 19, 2018
EXAMINING THE DEEP SPACE OFSOULFUL BRAND STRATEGY. W H A T I F? You were to think: “really—there’s something deeper, more profound, more magnetically, more soulfully powerful about the enterprise that I’m working on.” There’s more. Really? Perhaps you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brand Mysticism, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2018
CONCEPTIONS OF ITINERANT LEARNING—EXPLORING THE “GO THERE, GET OUT OF HERE” MODELING OF EDUCATION. “YOU COULD LEARN MORE IF YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE.” I was talking to an LA team on my traveling, vagrant-based approach to learning—leaning-in to learn by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | May 2, 2018
THE DESIGN OF TALISMANS, AMULETS AND THE PORTALS OF PERCEPTION What if there was an ancient theory about the nature of marking, that the making of marks had a powerful transformative character — a mark is a perceptual portal? One stroke, an idea is born, an energy... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 29, 2017
DRAFTING ABSTRACTION — THE MYSTERY OF PRESENTING NOTHING AND ABSENCE OF PRESENCE. In our brand work, we’re always looking at how to “be there,” how to “present,” how to offer solutions that are about context, place-making, certainty of premise, a real promise and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 21, 2017
The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspiration Jorge Luis Borges I had a dream about this man, this meeting and I had to recount it again. It’s one of the things that happens when you’re on the road a lot — there is a time where a simple chronological... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Jan 26, 2017
WALKING THE LONG WAY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY MEDITATIONS ON YOU AND YOUR EARTH. Each of us has a relationship to the Earth, what we know of her, how we’ve traveled her pathways, what doors we might have seen and how, perhaps, we have opened them.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Apr 19, 2016
Branding Buildings | Building Brands — Aligning Typefaces With Architecture In my earlier years I lived in a neighborhood laden with architects — like when I was 12 years old, in Spokane, Washington. I lived in a MidCenturyModern house [the one at 42nd & Perry]... Read More