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by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jun 30, 2021
IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE? OR IS IT A BURGEONING STORM? THE BRILLIANT, SCINTILLANT IDEA EMERGES AS A BREEZE—A SOFT TELLING, THEN THAT SHALL BECOME A WIND-RIVEN ROAR. There’s a question—the how of inspired idea[l]s—which could come as a lightning... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Jun 23, 2021
Working in Asia, as well as other parts of the planet, particularly in emerging economies, the notion of tinier living environments is well implemented—needfully so. Big living environments are—everywhere—far more costly and mostly less efficient than smaller... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 7, 2024
Seeing stories in Brands, Design and Gesture. As a leader of workshops, and team-related branding sessions, I tend to watch my teams very carefully. My last blog spoke to listening, and appreciative observation— how to study the evidences of emotion in the gestures of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures | Mar 12, 2021
DESIGN STUDIES IN BRAND STORYTELLING AND PATTERNING As a designer for motion pictures, I look backwards to go forwards. And I look forwards to go backwards. What that means is that much of our work as designers, particularly in motion picture related design and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 18, 2020
YOU COULD FIND A WAY OUT, THAT COULD BE A WAY IN. I was first struck by this sign that I found in an antiques shop outside of London; and there’s a story—for those calligraphically-inclined—that this font [for the sign] was originally designed [1918] by early... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Nov 2, 2020
CONTEMPLATIVE OF HIS PASSAGE, A ROBUST 90 YEARS, THE SEAN CONNERY BOND LEGACY IS A PROFOUND OPENING CASTING: LAUNCH AN UNFORGETTABLE NOTCH IN THIS IAN FLEMING STORYTELLING DEPICTION. AND STYLISTICALLY, ONE THAT REMAINED IN PLAY FOREVER. Suavely cool, sardonically... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2020
The Ecology of the Forest as an allegory for community, audiences and customers. We spend a lot of time studying people—watching them, listening to them and studying them in use contexts wrapped around brands. We look at how people use things, bring brands into their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 27, 2020
IN A LEGACY OF DECADES OF COLLABORATION, THERE ARE ELEMENTS THAT SPEAK LOUDER THAN OTHERS, LIKE THE WORDS THAT MESSAGE FIRST-OFF, TO A READING BRAND EXPERIENCER. THE HOLLYWOOD MOTION PICTURE PRESENTATIONS. In the brand journey of forty five years of exploration of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | May 13, 2020
THE REPETITION OF DESIGN AND SYMBOLICAL PATTERNING: ALLEGORICAL BRAND DESIGN. IN THE EXPLORATION OF THE DESIGN, PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION AND THEIR TRANSLATION OF IDEAS, THERE ARE PATTERNS THAT EMERGE. In the journey of the work, the act of designing—that is, the... Read More
