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April 30, 2012

The love of place | GIRVIN|BRANDS: San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley

A new office in one of our favorite cities: the love of place | San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley: GIRVIN’s new presence in California Building strategic intention, tracking our design heritage, Girvin returns to work in the City … Continue reading →

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March 31, 2012

Howard Schultz: The spin of the human brand, foundations and visioning, too far flung?

Howard Schultz: The spin of the human brand, foundations and visioning, too far flung? Starbucks | Store one | a block from Girvin’s Pike Place Market offices The spirit of the impassioned leader or founder speaks from the heart, which can drive everything, … Continue reading →

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August 22, 2011

THE PREMISE OF DESIGN THINKING

Exploring the emotionality of strategy, the humanity of brand, untethered creativity and the tactics of design management. EXAMINING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE We’ve got history in the balance between the concept of the crossroads of creativity and intelligence, as well as in … Continue reading →

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August 18, 2011

Hand Touch | Digital Touch

Thinking Craft, Materials Cutting and Computation I’ve been working on a series of journals. Recently, I’d been drawing from a iPad — and learning to craft formats and visuals that cross from photographic gatherings — and scribed, live, handwritten text. … Continue reading →

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July 27, 2011

The Alphabet | A History of Girvin Calligraphy

Early hand drawn explorations of the letter IMAGE: GIRVIN | hand made cut star alphabets in 12 languages –––––– There’s a rhythm to the alphabet, drawing it, the forms can flow from one character to another. The story of their … Continue reading →

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July 17, 2009

The art of the floor

Girvin | Movement: examining place, foundation and the archaeology of brand experience Girvin is moving, after a couple of decades in the same place. We’d created GIRVIN | Seattle, at the corner of 2nd and Pine, near the Pike Place … Continue reading →

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May 9, 2009

Explorations at Girvin | The Retail Design Institute

Storytelling in retail design As designers, there’s a patterning to be explored, something to be seen, sensed, experienced in the making of place and the character of brand, in story — and the telling of retail. Girvin card deck, obverse … Continue reading →

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September 18, 2008

Ghosts, Ghost Town and Ricky Gervais | Paramount Studios + DreamWorks Pictures

Exploring the illusory: branding ghosts and the veil of what is beyond… I’d been fascinated by the concept of the ghost – and the ghostly – for decades, since I was a kid. The magical, the mystical, the mysterious. Actually, … Continue reading →

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May 25, 2008

Indiana Jones | Pulp Fiction, Saturday Matinees, Serial Adventures & Branded Storytelling

The design heritage of the Indiana Jones franchise. Reaching back into the deep territory of my imagination — and my history as a long-running movie goer, I stride the aisles of Fox Theater, downtown Spokane, the 60s — and riding … Continue reading →

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May 14, 2008

Notes on Holistic Branding, Sound & Sense Experience

Brand experience is always about gathering content and pointing — even in synaesthetic context — to all of them. The notion of synaesthesia is about sensations crossing modality, from one sense to another. This concept of merging sentience speaks to … Continue reading →

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