ACE HOTEL | NYC: MARTIAL DESIGN BRAND STRATEGIES – Story, visuals, environmental graphics, tactical executions. Military graphic for a hotel (just blocks from GIRVIN | NYC.)
ACE HOTEL | NYC
EXPERIENCE NOMAD: EVENT HORIZON
EXPERIENCE NOMAD: EVENT HORIZON | I WAS THINKING ABOUT ANTONY GORMLEY’S INSTALLATIONS. AND THE FIGURE IN SURVEILLANCE. I was thinking about the watcher, the sentinel. And the sentient. Read More>>
The scent of asphalt | scenting place and the making of fragranced environments

Smelling where you are
BRANDING HOME | Creating a brand strategy and visualization for a property. Designing brands for family estates and compounds.
Exploring place and experience: 24 hours | Part four – The High Line

Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours
Exploring place and experience: 24 hours | Part three – New York Botanical Garden
Exploring place and experience: 24 hours | Part two – Storm King Arts Center
Designing custom typefaces for architecture and brand

The architecture of type Read More>>
The Experience of Scent, in Memory, Place and Sentience
Brand patterning | placemaking and architectural treatments in branded environments
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language
It’s been an obsession with me to explore the concepts of brand development and patterning in place-making. And it’s something, as well, that Girvin has been involved with for years. Ranging from simple shopfronts and graphic programs to design systems of substantially larger detail and scale. From quick restaurant skin/exterior design programs to Asian department stores of a significantly enlarged order.



