Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 16, 2009
Exploring the ideation of identity in theatrical advertising What is it about dogs? How is it, after thousands of years, we have this undeniable link with dogs? We immediately attach personality to them. We see something in dogs? And we see, perhaps, something of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Dec 14, 2008
I’ve been looking for truth. I’m looking for truth in my self — what do I do, in practicing what I tell, preach, to others. And telling the truth in the reign of the firm — what we do, what we offer, and how we go about doing it, in finding the truth and the heart of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail, Trends | Nov 21, 2008
Exploring unbranded brand storytelling There’s a new concept that’s been created by McDonald’s, in Tokyo. No brand, yes brand — scrap brand, new brand. “We want consumers to discover great taste and not care about who produced it.”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Uncategorized | Feb 4, 2008
For about 15 years, I’ve been using the journal as a kind of narrative to my life. More like a scrapbook, it’s a gathering of ideas and experiences that relate to what I’ve seen, reacted to, contemplating, in the spirit of my creative examinations.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Oct 12, 2007
Over time, if you can imagine it, I’ve known women that pursued the Nellie Cashman award kind of like a sweepstakes, sort of like a takeover strategy. “How can I acquire that?”. Really, not kidding. But what I’d offer is the sincerest form of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2007
Beowulf What calls, from ancient halls, the spirit of that other distant world, far more than a thousand and five hundred years back in the balled skein of time? Beowulf! Palaeography, or the history of the written world has long been a strategic underpinning of what... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Jul 17, 2007
7 | 9 | 07 The New York Times | explorations of the new edifice. I went to check out the New York Times new building. It’s not all theirs, of course. But, it’s new. The structure was created by Renzo Piano — I’ve long admired his work. Since... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Apr 23, 2007
I’d written a couple of weeks back about the enso, the zenga brush-drawn circles of the Zen masters, as a statement of satori and the enlightened condition. There’s more, to the notion of the symbology of the circle, as a gesture of containment and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Mar 8, 2007
There’s a great deal coming out of TED — the encounters, the explorations, the connections, the learnings. Incredible really. I don’t think I’ve ever been to anything quite like it. But the mix is increasingly world focused, on the big world... Read More