Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Strategic Branding and the Game of Chess
Integrative moves on the brand board of enterprise. The logo above, for the US / China Chess Summit, is a global tournament that GIRVIN created for a group of chess aficionados that see chess as a investment forum for growing acute thinking—the agency to strategic...
A chat with Robert Evans | Schulberg Building | Paramount Studios
A walk-around hello, on the Lot, Summer, 2007 When I was working on the Paramount lot on Melrose—with the executive team in the theatrical advertising office—I frequently worked onsite in hand-drawing and tuning, improving logo art for various projects, including, for...
These Days of Optimism
These days, it’s on us, as designers, brand stewards, artists and creative makers to offer something towards the spirit of optimism to share, to all. And we’re all sorely in need of uplift, right now? A dire and challenging time for many of us—it could be said to be,...
Branding The Omega Institute
A legacy of collaborations with Elisabeth Lesser, Co-Founder of the Omega Institute If you’re an explorer of holistic wellness, you might be familiar with The Omega Institute. In its latest manifestation, as a description, it’s defined, on their website, as "a...
Designing Brand Experiences and Strong Sensation
Jáime les sensation forte Wind at my back, ocean waves roaring overhead, standing in the middle of the storm-cast river running, & climbing an old tree in the middle of winter, snow falling. I like the strong sensation…and here it is, in the weaving of winds,...
The Kimber Script Logo
Classical lettercraft meets a precision draft, engraved in steel. In the spring cleaning of our moves to GIRVIN’s 16th office location, in the West Queen Anne Elementary School, in Seattle I was sorting through a grouping of files—like a large grouping, dozens of...
Stacking Stones | A Cairn of Ideas
A brand allegory reveals itself in an ancient practice A question for you might be—"have you ever stacked stones?” "And, what for, why did you arrange them?” Start at the bottom, rise up. Stacking stones is a symbolic act and it’s a global proposition— with a...
Attention in the age of distraction
And a good question: what are you paying attention to—and why? As brand people—idealists, founders, makers, strategists, writers, designers, customers and guests—we focus on how our experiencers are paying attention. It’s interesting [as it always is, in my historical...
Designed 250 Years Ago | The Art of Anniversaries
50 years ago, I got my first passport, it was in 1976—a US Bicentennial year. This was my first international travel, alone. I was 23 years old. But it was the beginning of a journey that would change my life. I’d been corresponding with designers in the US, as well...
In the Realm of the Senses and the Empire of the Hand
And gratitude in being. I was talking to a theatrical advertising designer at Paramount Studios about making. And, as creatives, “how do we make?” Imagination, mind, fist, fingers, lips—mouth and tongue, eyes and ears. What we absorb, as humans, and what we express is...