by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | May 1, 2013
The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer I just told this story recently. I was working with a colleague, in Florida — our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place that would be a kind of learning experience...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2013
Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and the explosive splatter of haboku. When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound — the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke of the brush on the stock. We worked on...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2013
Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers — and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands | Apr 24, 2013
How are Designers, Creative Minds, Changed by Babies? Having met Tom Ford, albeit in a short quasi-interview and completely unscheduled encounter at a WWD | BEAUTY + FASHION CEO SUMMIT; I’ll admit that I was afraid [of him.] When I was working for YSL, I was...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 22, 2013
The Search for Beauty — the Beauty of You, The Brand of You, and Others. In the quest for the truth of brands, the soul and heart of their storytelling — invariably, appropriately, there are humans involved. People make brands — mostly for other...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers | Apr 17, 2013
The End that is the Beginning | Brands & Death It might be said that the idea of associating the creative essence of the late Alexander McQueen with a skull is a mistake — a slide off the backside of a brilliant man, who passed in the swirl of an...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2013
Building brand identity around story, environment and experience The design of a gaming world is a multiple year commitment, and a spectacular investment — especially when the notion of a gaming world coincides with the conception. Some never make it, fueling...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Apr 12, 2013
Star Trek Two Working in the motion picture business, as a designer for theatrical advertising, the potential of working comes from making introductions, reaching out: connecting. It’s always a journey, the explorations, the examinations, the labyrinths of time,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 10, 2013
Exploring the heart and soul of brand, story and personality There’s a journey in getting to the heart of brand, and in a manner, it will be about finding the light that lies at the end of that voyage, or in the center of that conclave. I’m always looking...
