by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 30, 2026
What about flow? The fluency of ideas, drafts of inspiration—and, as a wanderer, the meander of mindlessness? As I’d mentioned earlier, the journey of the journal is a way of managing the today, which then becomes yesterday, that draws a line to the future. You look...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Sep 24, 2026
[Image is a poster keepsake, GIRVIN’s journal workshop, of the rules of the journal-maker in documenting their pathways.] Your Mind Deserves a Room of Its Own I taught classes in journal making—which I see as a kind of room, a palace of memories and inspirations—a...
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures | Sep 16, 2026
Design strategies, temporal tactics in typography and the palæographic narrative The calligraphy above is a rendering of ODYSSEUS [ΔΟ-ΥΣ-ΕΥ-Σ] I crafted in the ancient Greek boustrophedon style [as the ox plows] starting right to left, then left to right, the back...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Places, Retail | Sep 10, 2026
[Image shot onsite at Disneyland | Tim Girvin] Working Imagination | The Imagineers at Disneyland In my history as a design leader, we worked around various propositions of entertainment at Disney—not only working on films, but Disneyland itself, in a string of calls...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 3, 2026
Everything changes; everything is on fire. Nothing is the same as it was; everything is the same as it shall be. In the mist of experience, it’s all changing—still, standards flow, and patterning emerges. While everything is in flux, everything goes as it has from the...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | Aug 27, 2026
Have you ever observed that certain patterns repeat themselves in your life? There’s a recognized marking—perchance a star, a flower, or a spiral—it’s a wheel, perhaps a tower, some object of significance; it’s a sign—you see it at one pivotal moment in your life, and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 20, 2026
The Hatching Stroke and the Ubiquity of Archetypal Design Thinking # I was walking the beach near my studios and found the above timber mark, cross-hatched into a log, the proverbial “pound” or number sign. And I wondered about it. “When this type of mark is made,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Designers, Motion Pictures | Aug 13, 2026
There’s a conversation that’s floating around—about the notion of handwork, handmade things; the other, start-up side of ai design. Everything’s digital, of course, in the final interpretation, and application. But to my thinking, “by hand, with mind and...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Interior Design | Jul 23, 2026
Brand DNA | The Narrative of Design Patterning in Placemaking, Objects and Experientiality As designers, we stand up to build environments, messaging and visual expressions, to enable ideas, impressions, textual content and visualizations. And they are patterns—a...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2026
Istanbul signage Following on an expanded range from my blog from last week, which you might’ve read—“A Life Of Crime”— and GIRVIN’s history designing logos and design systems for police agencies, entertainment and narratives on international crime-fighting. This...
