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by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Jun 11, 2013
Understanding Experiencer Journey Working with Nabisco I studied the sequencing of packaging arrangements on shelf, of baked goods. What we looked at what a kind of rolling circle around the aisle walker, looking at how a person traverses a place that represents a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Storytelling, Trends | Jun 8, 2018
PATTERN COMPUTER LAUNCHED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA. [image: Pattern Computer] What if there was a unique way to surveil vast rivers of data and see rippling strings of insights in a wholly new manner? It should be said that the notion of seeking trends and patterning is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | May 13, 2020
THE REPETITION OF DESIGN AND SYMBOLICAL PATTERNING: ALLEGORICAL BRAND DESIGN. IN THE EXPLORATION OF THE DESIGN, PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION AND THEIR TRANSLATION OF IDEAS, THERE ARE PATTERNS THAT EMERGE. In the journey of the work, the act of designing—that is, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM | Mar 28, 2018
THE STUDY OF THE PAST TO ROLL TO THE FUTURE: INVESTIGATING THE HERITAGE OF ART, ENERGY, MEANING, MEMORY AND CONTEXT IN THE WRITINGS OF HSIEH HO, 6TH CENTURY CHINESE ART CRITIC. It’s been said by one that “Energy is eternal delight.” William Blake As I keep working... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Apr 6, 2009
Designing experiences and retail strategy | enlightening presence in the power of feminine visionaries. Right now, Girvin, the firm, is comprised mostly of women. And over time, I’ve found that women, as team partners, are superlative creative resources. And,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Oct 2, 2019
YOU UNDERSTAND. YOU KNOW. YOU BELIEVE. We all know that our work, brandspace, will be about the tiering of messages and visuals that enchant the participant. The signature of design is the sewing of that suture—side to side, layered, lit and shadowed storytelling:... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2018
WHAT ABOUT THE IDEA THAT COMES AS A SPARK, A LIGHTNING BOLT, A BLINDING BURST OF LIGHT AND SUDDEN INSIGHT? Now I see m o r e. There is a global mythic legacy of the thunderbolt; you might recall that there is some familiarity for you— a lightning strike moment, that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Trends | Aug 25, 2016
IN SEARCH OF THE SKULL: THE FLAME, THE ROD | DON ED HARDY AND VON DUTCH Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Apr 21, 2015
The Study of Watch Fullness, Surveilling the Terrain Around You. Really, what are you looking at? In the real construct of study, what are you really looking at? I look for allegory and metaphor, inspiration and insight in the journey of the day. Every day, a journey.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 24, 2014
The Outlook, the Lookout and Looking Out And looking in, to Brand Experience Design. As designers, we’re looking in, and looking out. And in our experience with brand management, it’s never, alone, only the looking in — the insights of inner seeing. But too, it’s the... Read More
