Blogs By Tim Girvin
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The Quest for Wind Speed | Accelerated Branding
Used by permission. ©Daniel Forster [view more of Daniel’s photography] Skipper Dennis Conner and America’s Cup teammates with the GIRVIN logo for “Stars & Stripes,” at Fremantle, AU. In a half century of brand design development, in projects all over the world,...
Designing a sensate place | GIRVIN’s 14th Design Office
Since 1972, I’ve created a long string of design environments—from my on-campus college office in 1973, while at The Evergreen State College, as a student and associate professor—with my first business license—the cabin that I lived and worked in on Eld Inlet—named...
Brand Patterning and Unexpected Messaging
When you work in a place, perhaps there’s a way to offer an uplifting message? A place could be a statement of mission— “I’m here, this is a reminder of why. I’m here.” Having been in probably 100s of offices in my history as a designer, I’ve explored a variety of...
Brand Feel | Emotionalism in Branded Sensations
Feelingness in the realm of design thinking, sensation and brand. Speaking of the sensate place of feelingness, making some-thing—as above—I took some old Italian handmade paper, folded-it, tore it with a bone folder, punched a hole in the head of the strip, and...
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...