by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Oct 19, 2007
design — the implementation of the signature, the marking, the descriptive curve, has always been that thing which crosses borders — for the sharing of one thing makes its way to another — it’s found here, signed, and extended there…and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Designers, General | Oct 4, 2007
I believe that the story is the way that people connect with each other. I tell you a story about me, you learn something — there’s a possible magnetic link between us; we’ve made some opening range of a connection. And from there…what, where...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands | Sep 6, 2007
————————- NOTES ON: Marc Jacobs The key to influence is the street. Marc’s work is based on his ascent — and that’s telling. It tells the tales of his visioning, drawn from experience starting from the...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | Sep 3, 2007
I realized that the branding visualizations that Sprint’s been doing with conductor-like expressions of people moving things, ideas, teams, etc., with light, was strangely reminiscent of something in my mind — not sure what, but it’s there....
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | Jul 24, 2007
Matt Groening & Tim Girvin: Cartooned life Meditations on careers, creative and titles. I met Matt Groening first at TED, 2007. More often than not, people have said that the big connection that I have with college is cartooning. “Hey, you’re from the...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General, Storytelling | Jul 16, 2007
7 / 11 / 07 1 | 1000 of a second Slow emotion. Lincoln Center | NYC The scrim from beneath. I was in Lincoln Square, the other night, upper west side, NYC — and I saw the recent installation by David Michalek. This slow motion photographic dissection of the...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places | Jul 9, 2007
Edward Burtynsky | Manufactured Landscapes @ the Film Forum | NYC. Trailer and related content —- Beautiful ugliness. I’ve made some notes about the idea of beauty, in ugliness, before. Ugly beauty. You know that concept — the swirls of rainbowed oil...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General, Places | May 25, 2007
Madison Park | NYC. 5.22.07 11.23pm People have asked me about the occasional address that I close mails with — TSG | madison park | NYC. What’s that, they say? Are you in a park? Well, sometimes yes. Girvin | NYC is located on 26th + Broadway, just off...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | May 18, 2007
It’s interesting, studying the web, and learning something of the reach of those without, within. There are, in surveying the records, people reaching to me all over the world. And sometimes, I see them studying us, our world — the work that we do, and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General | Apr 2, 2007
I found this word, and thought of you, Cindy. Nice spending some time with you, exploring your ideas and home, there on 23rd, NYC, looking out to the sunny side of the street, from a dramatically darkening interior. A silky lingerie interior that, in its inherent...