by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 21, 2010
Notes on signing, wayfinding, alphabets and recognition. When you are lost, where do you go, what do you do? You can, metaphorically, look for a sign. That might help. Or you can look at a map. They are the same thing. A sign is a map. A map is, in fact, a grouping of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Jun 19, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours I was getting tired, the long drive out to Mountainville, and the long(er) drive back to the city. Handy Magellan in car navigation was helpful, making our way back to the Bronx, still: traffic snarled. In fact, I...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Places | Jun 18, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours The second tour was a run, the following morning, out of the city to a place in Mountainville, upstate NY, a long-running gathering of a family tradition in building a sculpture reserve. “People ask how Ted Ogden...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 15, 2010
Tim Girvin + Jonathan Girvin. The Met Roof | Cantor Garden (Photo by Dawn Clark) Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours. In any trip, anywhere, the idea of a break — even packed-in on a tight agenda, can be meaningful — it’s an expansion on...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 14, 2010
Exploring the detailed visioning of leadership in brand management. This article appeared in the June issue of Arcade | Architecture and Design in the Northwest. Fire. BRANDFIRE | A culture of passion What lies beneath I think we need to be thinking about our...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 11, 2010
A note from Ed Kelly: content, contentment, relevance, resonance What’s the story, who’s telling it, what’s it look like, and who cares? I’ve been an American Express cardholder for coming on 20 years. And I met Ed Kelly, CEO, American Express,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 7, 2010
Technology, attunement to content, the iPad and new modeling of computing place. I started writing this missive a couple of weeks back, and it would appear to becoming a reference of increasing topicality. Even today, a detailed overview of the challenges of an...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Human brands, Interior Design | Jun 7, 2010
Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre Considering a design inspiration based on mid-20th century industrial aesthetic In studying the design ethos of Starbucks retail design, I came into learning more about their strategy in a series of meetings working with another...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Luxury | Jun 1, 2010
Ermenegildo Zegna’s Vellus Aureum Luxury strategies and authentic truth. Making things by hand is a disappearing legacy. And even to the concept of the most luxurious, the idea of an object being completely handmade is a vanishing tradition. The concept of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers | May 27, 2010
Art, branding and jewelry I had an experience in working with the fragrance group at Bulgari, along with another friend, an executive marketing partner there, that moved on to build the brand Gilt. Recently, the concept of exploring the art of jewelry and its...
