by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Oct 25, 2016
MARVEL STUDIOS Magical design, mystical gestures, emblems and logos for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange While I’d referenced my earlier history with a blog on DocSavage, there was a mirroring in another of my youthful vigil for the mystically adventuresome [and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Designers, Motion Pictures, Trends | Sep 15, 2016
AI Design Strategies: Can AI work as Creative in the Movie Business? With the plethora of new AI development stories, how far can these applications stretch? IBM’s Watson thinks it can step in. I was studying some content on Adweek, about a new modeling for search and...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Jul 13, 2016
The Design of the Doc Savage Logo In GIRVIN’s history as designers for theatrical marketing and advertising, we’ve got legacy, a heritage of literally hundreds of motion pictures — starting with kickoff logo studies for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 17, 2016
Designing Alphabets, Messaging and Meaning. The alphabetic coding of “The Matrix.” The metaphors of threading content, digital rain, flow and the loom of meaning in context I was talking to a team of students from my college days, reteaching, again some of the...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 15, 2014
Cinematic innovations Launched at Seattle’s Cinerama Reaching back, we worked for Doug Trumbull on Brainstorm. Like any theatrical advertising effort, you’ve got to know the story, and the tenets of its production design and technical strategy, to create...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Jul 16, 2013
In the Journey, who is your companion? Who is your guardian, your guide, your icon, your shepherding guide? Me? Raven and crow, telling. We’ve noted in an earlier blog study, that we’ve been involved in the Lone Ranger, as designers, in the past —...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Jul 3, 2012
Logos, fonts, custom alphabets and design strategies: from one sheet to main titles WORKING AS A DESIGNER IN THE THEATRICAL BRANDING Design / Strategy market, the “instinctually” founded process is pebbled with uncertainty and the foibles of a largely...
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...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Motion Pictures | Dec 18, 2011
Customized, illustrative typographic design for motion picture titling design. First off, to clarify, we didn’t work on Ghost Protocol, out today — but seeing the opening campaign, as well as the film launch in Dubai (and working there reminded me of...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 11, 2011
Working the World: Innovations and Revelations, the Future Reclaimed I N N O V A T I O N C H A N N E L S Working in varying parts of the world, depending on the culture, your relationships there invariably offer to show you the newest and the coolest in town. Being...
