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...
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 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...
