Search results for: type design
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Jan 18, 2012
Design, brand foundations and Silicon Valley: opening the channels to brand origination. “I know that there’s a story here, but how will people get it? What is the story, what’s cool about it — and why would anyone care?” I was thinking... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Retail | May 23, 2011
The singularity of purpose in extraordinary experience design Small FSR | Big Ambitions in Restaurant Design Strategy The real key is honesty — being simple, authentic, straight forward. People seem to get that. Meeting Danny Meyer, the legendary human brand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 2, 2010
Visioning mission, promise, proposal, proposition and the inculcation of values, notations on design thinking and strategic attention. “Vision can be written, it’s scribing a dream; it’s a designed evocation — a voicing. Mission is that act... 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 | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Feb 24, 2007
There’s another symbolic value to the O and the 1 beyond the nature of the digital translation of content and interpretation. O, the curved enclosure — is, in sequence etymologically — from Sanskrit — the sunya; Arabic, sifr; Medieval Latin,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 30, 2013
When You Get Out There. For the Curious, More Can Be Found. Doors opened, entries walked, the pilgrimage taken. When you get out there, closer to the heart of the story, the feeling of it: the place, the brand, the people, the story, can be found. For nearly 20 years,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 14, 2009
The analysis of Tweeter types: person to person, twitter profiles. It’s good to be clear about who you are. It’s interesting that there are emerging personality profiles, in users, that come into the webbed world of community in communications. And surely,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Aug 24, 2023
The impassioned flame that builds brands Intention and Strategy As a designer, presuming strategic intention, the practice is never about what’s on the surface alone, but more about what lies beneath it. The legacy of any design decision lies in historical... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2023
The mythological patterning of legend-building—cinematic narrative and ancient thematics—BabaYaga, the BogeyMan and the Hero of 1000 Faces. As any creative would tell you, story-working is a layering of patterns—there are the arcs of plots, the intertwinement of time,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts | Dec 14, 2022
THE QUEST FOR DEEP METAPHORS IN SYMBOLIC PATTERNING, BRAND VISUAL LINGUISTICS In Paris, the above plaque was an installed signage in a small studio’s shopfront off the Seine, Rive Gauche. It was a place that I shared with Pierre Dinand, as a working collaborative lab,... Read More