Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers | Dec 15, 2009
The savoring of acceleration — fast brand storytelling. Being one who is in the business of acceleration — the development of conceptions that speed, to market, into community, audiences, guest relationships, client spaces and beyond, the idea of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Oct 19, 2007
design — the implementation of the signature, the marking, the descriptive curve, has always been that thing which crosses borders — for the sharing of one thing makes its way to another — it’s found here, signed, and extended there…and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 26, 2012
Powerful ideas, invention and brand re-alignments, newly imagined. I’m looking for surprise, beauty, spectacle — designing it, looking at it, seeing it, extending that story — the telling of it. To tell anything, there has to be another — the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Jun 22, 2022
THE STRIKE OF THE TWIN LIGHTNING BOLTS THE EVIDENCE OF LEGACY | TOM CRUISE AND TOP GUN Titling Design Trailer In my history as a designer of theatrical branding, I’d already been on the run for about 10 years [since Apocalypse Now] of working on motion picture and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 30, 2021
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign. —NUMBER 6 I introduced a friend of mine to Patrick McGoohan’s “The Prisoner,” a series that he conceived, starred in and produced for a limited run in the 60s.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 5, 2019
THE WHORL OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS. A brand is like a spiral—could be a channel, could be the opening of a drain, could be a spigot pouring forth—but in one way or another—it’s a channel: outflow, inflow. Its success will be the fluency of its convergence—the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Feb 14, 2019
BUILDING BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: CAUSE MARKETING, HUMANITARIAN BRAND-BUILDING AND CHARITABLE PROMOTIONS. I REALIZED, SOME TIME BACK, WORKING FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE, THAT BUILDING BEAUTIFUL BRANDS, HOLISTICALLY RICH, ROBUST AND BEAUTIFUL, VISUAL AND TEXTUALLY ARTICULATED... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 13, 2018
A LEGACY AND LETTERFORM LANDMARK FOR RAINBOW MAGAZINE CALLIGRAPHY AS MAGIC When it comes up to it, the making of marks is an inherently magical proposition; that is: magic is definable as a insight and plane changer. It transforms perception and meaning in the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 5, 2017
AS A DESIGNER, A BRAND PERSON — A CREATIVE, A STRATEGIST, A MARKETER — YOU WORK IN THREADING ALIGNMENTS OF CREATIVITY. THAT COMES TO THIS PARALLELISM: THE SYNCHRONY OF HOW YOU THINK, WHAT YOU’VE WORKED ON AND WITH, AS WELL AS WHERE YOU’VE BEEN. IT COMES DOWN TO: WHAT... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 15, 2016
The Deepest Cut: The Brand Allegory of the Cutting Edge In the journey of brand strategy, storytelling and design, a number of allegories constantly emerge. There is the journey, the road less traveled and the search for the pathway there are brand symbols of shining... Read More
