by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2013
The writing of the eternal return: the perpetual script of spinning time When you contemplate the road forward, there’s a chance to look back, the path that brought you to where you are. [image above, from http://mattgirvin.org/] It’s difficult work, when...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 4, 2013
The farmer in you | II Planting the seeds of ideals, dreams, the promise in the mission of creativity I’d written a blog, just back, with meditations on the archetypal character of Dodge’s “farmer in you” advertising. Storytelling from various...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Interior Design, Places, Trends | Mar 1, 2013
Small living, the Footprint of Micro places The delicacy of small, thoughtfully crafted, green-built and well-organized places to live in. Working with a housing development team in Seattle, Girvin’s ideator® naming team built a naming strategy to support the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2013
In the spirit of light, storytelling illumination. The character of what can be seen, in scene, the drama of Light. As an intensely curious person — a person that seeks out answers by finding the people that build things, do things, make things, one of my...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Luxury, Retail, Scent | Feb 25, 2013
Working in Japan, we designed for Japan, for Shiseido. There’s a story there, digging in, building the fluency of designing to another culture, in that culture; it’s not American design, transported to work in the Japanese markets, it’s designing...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 19, 2013
The Metaphor of the Deeper Storytelling in Brand, the Undercurrent of Persona; the Dodge Farmer Ad, Super Bowl The bigger allegories in archetypal positioning. Imagery, shown [above and below] from the Dodge Super Bowl ad. On Tuesday February 5th, I gave a talk on...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Feb 4, 2013
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE SIMPLEST PRODUCT DESIGN AND ITS VARIATIONS TO UTILITY. In the spirit of exploring the hand made, old-tech and the utility of the obvious solution — from clothespins to pencils, I was talking to two people on two different bents. Girvin...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Places | Jan 28, 2013
There is a place, in a place, in a story in a story, a person in a person. And you could photograph that, the layering of these contents. Watch this, for more: http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/12/11?ecid=ema1993&CID I was thinking about the deeper, nascent power...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 22, 2013
The notes of time, presented as a script to presence Are you here, awake, reading the runes on the wall, cast before you? When you look at the walls, what language, what telling, what stories are told to you? I was thinking about the end of the world, as we know it,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Jan 16, 2013
The Letter form and the Design of Talismans Over the past several months, I’ve been talking to a younger person about the idea of the place of magic in a sub-current of popular culture [Supernatural;] in a manner, the interest in magic is an ever-popular...
