by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2008
Store one: Pike Place Market: It’s clear that Howard Schultz is loved, given the rousing support he received at the shareholder’s conference, this past week in Seattle. Even k.d. lang was there, savoring the melange of several thousand people, singing out....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 21, 2008
For a number of years, I’ve been exploring the idea of patterning in design. Patterning in brand, patterning in architecture, patterned treatments in art. That ranges from the idea of using layering — and pattern — as a kind of subdued code in...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Retail | Mar 20, 2008
Gucci before, above — and now, Gucci anew: Been here: blog.girvin.com/?p=323 I’ve been studying, though not buying, the work of Frida Giannini. I’ve heard she’s an interesting person. I reached to her. Wrote about some ideas and never heard...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Scent, Trends | Mar 15, 2008
Everything smells. Every thing — scents. There are layers to scent in experience. It’s all about what you remember, what you hold — what scene, seen? What there was, in experience, that lent you to some level of exposure. That recalls — that...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Mar 13, 2008
I’d been prepping myself to connect with Chris Anderson, since I’d worked remotely on the cover. Seattle | San Francisco | NYC. I keep jumping. The work’s there — I work anywhere that I need to. Find something, work on it. Go there. Nice...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Mar 8, 2008
The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Paula Rees. She’s a placemaker. Her...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Mar 7, 2008
Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine: on Charlie Rose (PBS) I like Charlie’s opening presentment: “I believe that there is a place in the spectrum of television for really good conversation, if it is informed, spirited, soulful.” Spirit and soul. I like...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | Feb 29, 2008
what’s extra? pretty much everything. some thing extra about today any : day > being in it. LIFE IS ABOUT MAKING THINGS, CREATING THINGS, BEING IN CREATIVE SPACE — MAKING THINGS THAT CONNECT ME TO YOU. …. LIVING EVIL yesterday, I was thinking...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Feb 28, 2008
What is life? smiley groupings, right? —- vivacity, sprightliness, vigor, verve, activity, energy. I go backwards. When I think about life — going back to something that was before, that reaches to the now — and the me that is living now. Life = Body...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Feb 27, 2008
Big questions. What’s asked, what’s answered? …. What I’m thinking about: I’ve found myself always contemplating — why, who, were, what? And I’ve been writing about that for years. What | ever? For | ever? …. Here are...
