by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jul 9, 2026
The world of brand strategy, and design, extends to crime-fighting. GIRVIN’s bespoke brand design of Crime Stoppers. In our history, we’ve consulted for various police agencies, patrol and security groups, building brands around protection of assets, people and their...
by GirvinIT | Brand Mysticism, Brands | Jul 1, 2026
Stories, myths, legends, tales—the link to humanity If there’s a story about a person, which might be a legacy, as in a family. It could be a product—a brand—and the perennial GIRVIN question would be: what’s the story, who’s telling it, who is this story for, what’s...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Trends | Jun 25, 2026
Tim Girvin’s Legacy in a Half Century in the Strategic Design of Hallucinogens When I was in my first college, studying Marine Biology and comparative Zoology, as well as Medieval art history and cultural studies; psychedelic drugs were commonplace—and, at this...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Jun 17, 2026
Creating environments with brand language and narrative patterning built into the experience design strategy. What if there was an intention to create a pattern language that could guide consumers, and renovate a retail environment? And, while you’re at it, simplify...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Jun 10, 2026
L I S T E N T O T H E L I N K S I was talking to a client about music [brand experientiality]—the magnetic nature of the melodic narrative and, intimately, the human attribute of the swing of musical cadence, the ebullience of its expression in the context of human...
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures | Jun 4, 2026
How to illustrate a story with letterform design. My kickoff work on Francis Ford’s Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” began with a question: he said, [“can you send me some graffiti logos, I saw your work in U&lc.”] I had no idea what he was talking about,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 27, 2026
Trends, Surfing Allegories, and the Soul of the Sea The storm-riven roil of the sea— which is stirring the waves of change—and riding the future. Where I surf the waves are irregular and wild—they gather steam from global swells and mix up in a frothy mix that is...
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 20, 2026
The font work of the road, the remote walls, restroom stalls and using industrial brush tools. I was influenced by graffiti artists and hobo code markers. To know graffiti, practice the art. In the 70s, I started marking stalls in funky bathrooms in NYC, marking over...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | May 13, 2026
Used by permission. ©Daniel Forster [view more of Daniel’s photography] Skipper Dennis Conner and America’s Cup teammates with the GIRVIN logo for “Stars & Stripes,” at Fremantle, AU. In a half century of brand design development, in projects all over the world,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places | May 6, 2026
Since 1972, I’ve created a long string of design environments—from my on-campus college office in 1973, while at The Evergreen State College, as a student and associate professor—with my first business license—the cabin that I lived and worked in on Eld Inlet—named...
