by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands | Jan 16, 2019
IF THERE’S A QUEST TO CREATE A NEW SURFACE, RESKINNING IMAGINATION: THEN WHAT LIES BENEATH? In a recent set of workshops, working out of state, with a brand team and CEO, there was a journey into the deeper side of the brand’s essence—the “what does this brand really...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Storytelling | Dec 19, 2018
EXAMINING THE DEEP SPACE OFSOULFUL BRAND STRATEGY. W H A T I F? You were to think: “really—there’s something deeper, more profound, more magnetically, more soulfully powerful about the enterprise that I’m working on.” There’s more. Really? Perhaps you...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brand Mysticism, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2018
CONCEPTIONS OF ITINERANT LEARNING—EXPLORING THE “GO THERE, GET OUT OF HERE” MODELING OF EDUCATION. “YOU COULD LEARN MORE IF YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE.” I was talking to an LA team on my traveling, vagrant-based approach to learning—leaning-in to learn by...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, Interior Design, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 14, 2018
DESIGNING FURNITURE THAT PROTECTS THE USER. As a designer, I’m frequently talking about the core power of markings. In fact, at Mark Anderson’s futurist, high tech conference—this year in ParkCity, Utah, I was doing just that—talking about the symbolism of the mark...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2018
THE DESIGN VOCABULARY: VISUALIZATION, MESSAGING AND THE PATTERNING OF IDEAS, MARKS AND MEANING. I had a chance to present, at the behest of the esteemed Mark Anderson a string of ideas at the Strategic News Service presentation of FiRe at the Stein Ericksen Lodge in...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2018
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brand Mysticism, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design | May 31, 2018
THE HYPERREALITY OF SYNAESTHETIC DESIGN THINKING Used by permission | ©Clodagh | See more of her work It’s been suggested by many that designing holistically is really the tasking of design towards a sextet of responsive and sensational layers for beings and their...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | May 2, 2018
THE DESIGN OF TALISMANS, AMULETS AND THE PORTALS OF PERCEPTION What if there was an ancient theory about the nature of marking, that the making of marks had a powerful transformative character — a mark is a perceptual portal? One stroke, an idea is born, an energy...
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...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | Feb 1, 2018
THE JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN CENTER OF THINGNESS [the it]: THE HEART, THE MEANING, THE MEMORY AND THE MOMENT IN THE MOMENTUM IN BRAND MYSTERY. What is the being of a brand? It’s a story. It’s a person. It’s a dream — it’s a visioning to another tier of neo-rightness and...
