Search results for: bespoke craft
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers | Nov 13, 2019
DESIGNING THE ALPHABET AS A TOOL OF BRAND EXPRESSION IMAGE: GIRVIN for Bloomingdale’s | digitally-incised dimensional ornamental star alphabets in 12 languages –––––– What about typography— what it looks like, the form of language, visualized? What about this... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 4, 2023
GIRVIN’s 50 years old—speaking of finely-aged, so we have history, and it runs back to wines that we’ve produced ourselves, gifted wines and wine brands we’ve built for enterprises in the US, Asia and Canada. Wines are, as everyone knows, particularly challenging... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Oct 16, 2021
James Bond in TOM FORD Dark Blue Wool Silk Check O’Connor Notch Lapel Jacket, O’Connor Tailored Trousers, Sky Blue Poplin Collared Shirt and Dark Blue Diagonal Silk Tie photo by Nicola Dove © Danjaq, LLC and MGM THE EMOTIONALITY OF THE LOOK, BRAND DESIGN, OF MOTION... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Mar 4, 2022
MEDITATIONS ON THE SHAPE OF CONTENT In the moment of inspiration, everyone “thinks” something and converts this to some framing of expression. Could be handwritten, a journal entry, a sketched missive, drawn on an iPad or typed out. It’s the shaping of content that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 22, 2025
All the work that GIRVIN designs is bespoke, it’s customized per project. Designing customized typographical treatments for identity programs would be obvious for any designer worth their salt. Since the latter 70s, about 5 years into the draft of design, I’d always... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 26, 2025
Above, speaking of scripts, a Girvin stylistic expression: a broadly splayed opening capital, a hairline accentuation, a strike stroke from the opening character in its initiation, a bounced baseline and jumped x-height, an unexpected ligature, widely varied pen... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 6, 2024
In my history, I’ve often thought, looking at, literally, any logo—“that could be better.” Or, “why such an off-the-shelf solution—there’s nothing distinct, ownable or registrable with this asset?” Of course, all of us, as brand strategists, designers and logo... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2020
BRAND DESIGN, INSPIRATION, CONSTRUCT AND MEANING The quest for the right place of brand identity—starting with strategic foundations of name, story, stance, personality and chromosomal attributes, integrative and experiential tactics—extends to look, and, inherently,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 27, 2020
IN A LEGACY OF DECADES OF COLLABORATION, THERE ARE ELEMENTS THAT SPEAK LOUDER THAN OTHERS, LIKE THE WORDS THAT MESSAGE FIRST-OFF, TO A READING BRAND EXPERIENCER. THE HOLLYWOOD MOTION PICTURE PRESENTATIONS. In the brand journey of forty five years of exploration of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Retail, Trends | Aug 18, 2011
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,... Read More
