by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2026
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...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Storytelling | May 26, 2021
THE MIGRATION OF SIGILS, SIGNETS AND PATTERNS Isn’t it so that there are devices, objects, that repetitively reveal themselves— during the course of your journey, your work? These are marks that come back to you, your journeys down the lane of the way that you have...
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 | 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 | Artists, Brands, Designers, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0 | Nov 8, 2017
THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE MIND: FROM THOUGHT TO WORD IN DESIGNED LETTERFORM LINGUISTICS | ALPHABETS AS BRAND VOCABULARIES. Working on hundreds of logos and corporate identity packages, in decades of design and brand development for clients around the world, over time...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Mar 23, 2009
Art Wolfe | Wikipedia imagery file Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The brand that is a living, loving being. Art Wolfe and I go way back — decades; but my personal relationship with him goes back further — into the recesses of my...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places, Retail | Feb 1, 2008
…. I’d written about Ken earlier, the work that he was doing on this sidewalk. I’d surely offer that Tony Goldman, the developer, should be applauded for his winning (and willing) innovation. Must be a visionary, to implement this street art, as an...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Designers, Storytelling | Dec 31, 2007
1. How did you get your start? My start? Raw curiosity for one. That’s where it all started, that drove, and drives everything that I am made of. I am one that is easily enchanted by content. I can be ignited in a moment, if the right spark is there. A love of...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Dec 23, 2007
I’ve been drawing — painting — things like this for some time. And, well, they’re flat. There are two dimensions. The black, the white. And the space, between. And then, too, there are translations of the energetic content of the brushstroke...
by Tim Girvin | Artists | Dec 17, 2007
http://www.kenrock.com/ I’d met Ken Rock, sitting on the sidewalk. That’s what he does, part of the time. Sit on the side walk and hammer away. Looking from further down the block, I’d wondered what that person was doing. It was nightfall. And it was...
