Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 24, 2016
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 23, 2016
According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) website “The purpose of National Handwriting Day is to alert the public to the importance of handwriting. According to WIMA, National Handwriting Day is a chance for all of us to re-explore the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent, Storytelling | Jun 17, 2014
Anytime? In the work of brand, are you ever off, or always on? I was walking this remote road, and I found this sign in the middle of anywhere, no where — “ANYTIME.” When I find signs like this, I’m prone to ponder their meaning — as if... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 10, 2012
Stanley Kubrick + Douglas Trumbull > Monoliths on Mars Seeing the imagery of a so-called “monolith” [alá 2001, A Space Odyssey from NASA on Space.com reminded me of a string of experiences — working in Hollywood. During the development of a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 3, 2011
Girvin | Rodarte The story on the story in the story — human | brand layering: passion, fire, color, sensation, context and meaning. There is the seen surface; and there is what lies beneath — in shadow, use, care, overlay and redrawing. Palimpsest... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 30, 2008
Saying goodbye at the Majorelle Gardens. I did gesture to good bye, at his passing, along with, of course, millions of others — June | 2008. And most of the designers of significance on the planet: http://www.wwd.com/au_revoir_yves And, that closing in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2008
On the 20th, last month, I’d connected with a friend, Tim Lauren, to explore the Store One | Starbucks, Pike Place Market. We’d met, examining, talking about brand management and experience planning. Tim comes from the space of experience design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 24, 2015
Finding A Way Out, That Could Be a Way In This, above, is a sign from my office; it’s from the London Underground. And below, another example. What I liked about it — the image at the head of this missive, and put a photo in my journal, is the inverted rendering of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 5, 2015
I LIKE TO BE TOUCHED. And I like to touch. Just one way to sense is to touch. In having a conversation with one, I find that a touch is a way to link to someone in a different way — it’s a bond that will take the track of a discussion from one tack to another. Touch —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Jan 15, 2015
Experience Design, Sensationalism and the Layering of Sensuality You’re a…sensualist? You = sybarite? –––– This from an emailing from the lexicographical modeling of Visual Thesaurus below, a word cartographic tool that plays to motion-mapping the interrelationships... Read More
