by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 15, 2007
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It’s interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 23, 2007
Visual Thesaurus visualizations, brand development and GIRVIN. —- As a designer, and someone that works in the space of branding and the human character of business communications, writing plays a significant role. Moreover, there’s the issue of how people...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 16, 2007
When someone gets something — understands a message, how is it gathered, how is it understood? The lay of the alphabet, the geometries therein, speak to the message of the mind, laid bare, in the character of the black on the white, the message — missive...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Jul 23, 2007
You. The question? What mystery found, what box unopened — what, unanswerable issues — what comes forth, now found, newly discovered? What are you looking for, what is there to be ? What is that? I’ve been thinking about this a lot this weekend. What...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Jul 16, 2007
What if you could do your own thing, create a retail space of your own? I’ve thought about that idea, doing just that — maybe in retirement, whenever that might be. Tim’s stuff. And a lot of that there is. But then there’s kiosk. Soho, NYC. I...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 8, 2007
What about personality, to brand, to trend, to direction? Every time I connect with a brand, there’s a person involved. Funny, isn’t that? I believe sometimes, that we forget about that. We think about the business proposition; there’s a personality,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Human brands | Jun 6, 2007
There are brands; and there are brands behind brands. The rippling of connections between brands and supporting brand relationships vibrate inwards and outwardly. When there’s a story connected to a brand; it’s part of the legacy, there are connections...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | May 30, 2007
There’s one thing to a pen, drawing, there’s another to a pen, writing. And being a longer term practioner who plays in both spaces — the drawing and the writing, it will be interesting to see, yet again, if this concept takes hold. Yes, me —...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | May 28, 2007
Randall Stross… Greetings! Nice, your work: Sunday | NYTimes | Bright ideas! | Digital Domain 5.27.07 (Randall Stross) I found your observations on Apple Store, as carefully and clinically precise in their analyses as they could hope to be, I suppose, to be...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 11, 2007
There’s an inherently classical discipline to the luminous experiments and exploration that James Carpenter’s work seems to embody. He’s an architect — of light, and the incipient interplay of space. It’s all about the nature of light,...
