Tim Girvin, founder of Girvin, Inc., is recognized internationally as a designer, writer, illustrator, photographer and calligrapher. He has spoken all over the world on strategic planning, brand development and design integration, brand and story development for retail identity. His focus is fulfilling emotional and holistic sensory content in dimensional marketing to international audiences.
Girvin's client attention is on captivation: strategy and personality, identity in retail and brand environments, entertainment design and integrated experience. Past and present clients include Apple, Ameristar Casinos, Boyd Resorts, Bloomingdale's, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Kerzner, Leviev, LG / Seoul, L'Oreal, MGM | Mirage, Microsoft, Millennium Retailing / Tokyo, Nordstrom, Paramount Studios, Procter & Gamble, Warner Brothers and Wynn.
He is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Design Management Institute, Japanese Graphic Design Association, Industrial Designers Society of America, Luxury Marketing Council, Society for Environmental Graphic Designers and the Type Directors Club | Tokyo.
Girvin's education includes a degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, with additional studies and explorations at New College, the Cooper Union College of Arts & Sciences, the Imperial College in London; but Girvin's real learning focus is itinerant. He finds people to learn from and goes to meet with them, traveling worldwide. His original academic path was marine biology and natural history. Girvin's lab notebooks were so elaborately designed, though, that a professor recommended he change his course of study.
This led to research in the history of art, the alphabet and architecture, type design and fine printing, calligraphy, literature and the book, and how these were culturally influenced through the millennia. Regardless of the name, in the history of the firm - Alphabet, Elements, Tim Girvin, Inc., Girvin Brands, Tim Girvin Design, Inc. or simply Girvin, he's been at the heart of running this company for more than 30 years.
His business and design observations can be found at his blog at Girvin.com: http://blog.girvin.com. Tim's link to the leadership and philosophy of Girvin, and what creative direction can mean for his personal life, can be explored at http://tim.girvin.com.
http://tim.girvin.com.