by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places, Scent | Aug 13, 2012
Creating sensate holism in place-making Color, perception, light — happiness in moment — personal voicing of story and gathered re-collection, all impact the moment of scent, the waft of an instant, reclaimed and recalled. summering scents — could...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Aug 10, 2012
Rippling – the metaphor of touch. One story, is another, and another. An other. You tell me your story, and I will hold it to heart, and carry that story as it becomes my own — carried for you, by me. Care, beauty, sharing and community. What is the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 8, 2012
Flying with dragonflies One stroke, drawn, another. Sometimes, in the air, you are tracing lines — like a conductor, lines drawn and gestured in the molecules of motion. That line, in the stroke of air, is your imagination — again, like Nabokov’s...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 6, 2012
Handwriting, the message, and the carriage of content I can look at a person’s handwriting and know how it will work out [their relationship to me.] There are insights in the cartography of writing [handwriting as soul-mapping] — and these interplays: [the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Trends | Aug 1, 2012
Working in Vegas, over the course of four days, we all studied people. Our team was Cathy Mack, Girvin’s San Francisco-based Director of Strategic Marketing, and Gabrielle Girvin [my daughter], Girvin’s Seattle [and firm wide] Social Media Implementor and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 30, 2012
Contemplations on the spin — the whorl of us: our path, the ISS [a night journey]. And a question posed: Where have we been? Where are we going? And what will we do when we get there? Sometimes you need to get way out there to understand about where you’ve...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jul 25, 2012
Just where, really — are you going? And, if you’re going, are you growing? And why, might be? Shooting words leads to the meditation on their meaning. Sure, you’re thinking that you know what they mean, but what lies beneath that word — could...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Jul 18, 2012
The book, that is the leaf of time, space that becomes place and a world. Guy Laramee bookwork in transformation — presented by Foster White Gallery, Seattle A friend of mine pointed out a show, of an artist — with a broad vocabulary of explorations, Guy...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Incubation | Jul 16, 2012
Building a wave, rippling out innovation and incubation strategies In the past, [1943 / Burbank] there was a team that built a remote, offsite-working, brainstorming and product innovation model called the skunkworks. Supposedly, the origination of the skunkworks...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jul 13, 2012
What I have learned in one day is t h a t : ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– E V E R Y D A Y i s a J O U R N E Y [SMALL OR LARGE] ––– That: however long, difficult or winding these stairs might be — their point is to take you to another point of view,...
