Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Sep 20, 2010
Photo by Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP Every brand is made for humans. Every human could be a brand. What’s the story? I was a student at The Evergreen State College, and I was asked to offer a presentation at a networking event to support the school, as well as the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Retail | Mar 30, 2010
Image © Warner Brothers Cinematic brand alignments, at the end of the world. I’ve worn Oakley glasses for a long time. In fact, at the last adventure, I lost my last pair — which have probably been around the world at least twice. To the end of considering... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Trends | Aug 1, 2012
Working in Vegas, over the course of four days, we all studied people. Our team was Cathy Mack, Girvin’s San Francisco-based Director of Strategic Marketing, and Gabrielle Girvin [my daughter], Girvin’s Seattle [and firm wide] Social Media Implementor and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Dec 8, 2015
Human Brand Strategies | Exploring the Ignition Between Personal Brands, Soulfulness in Action and Enterprise: What Lies within? And What Lies beneath? Photo by Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP Every Brand is Made for Humans. Every Human Could be a Brand. What’s the Story?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | May 20, 2015
The Tool, the Allegory, the Legend I’ve been using hammers. And collecting old hammers. Have you tried working with multiple hammers, their wood and metal shafts, their weighted mallet heads, explored how they work? The weight, the heft, the swing, the balance, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Dec 30, 2014
THE SMELL OF EXPERIENCE: THE HISTORY OF EMPIRE & THE DESIGN OF SENSATION I was talking to a friend and client about the notion of brand in sensationalism — the holism of experience strategy. That comes down to one point, a reflexive point — how big do you feel? We... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Aug 21, 2014
Studying the Holism of Textual Contemplation [Reading]. In a manner, everything we do as designers comes back to an attribute of reading — that is: how we hold something, how we touch, taste, smell, hear, seek balance and intuit content are all manners of reading... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Jun 26, 2014
Could you go slow? In the incipient need for speed that rattles through the channels of our experience, could that potentially be slowed way down? To see and sense more? Take a moment. When I travel, working on brands around the world, I try to come into a place slow.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers | May 29, 2014
ONE STORY, ONE PERSON It’s interesting how a journey in the life of a designer will take them out to the ends of many roads in their explorations — and those roads might lead back, to the very beginning from which they first found insight into the deeper meaning of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
Martha Holmes | Jackson Pollock Time©1949 Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers: exploring concepts of the visual language of creativity, music, madness — and the warmth of humanity in redemption. “Madness is the salt that keeps good sense from rotting.”... Read More