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WINE DESIGN | Rethinking the Label, Architecture and Experience Design

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Places | Dec 1, 2010

Image: Matthew Donaldson | Nowness collection The combination of strategy, designed experience, architecture, the holistic label of loving the story of wine. Over time, it’s been possible for Girvin to work on dozens of wine brands, as consultants in story,...

ALL SAINTS SPITALFIELDS | SEATTLE

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 21, 2010

All Saints Spitalfields | Soho (video from allsaints.com) Brand legacy, place, story, music Ever since All Saints Spitalfields launched in New York City, I was curious about the strategy of design. What’s the story? There is one, a part, here: It starts here,...

Scent design | vessel: translucency, transparency, tsutumi and touch

by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Scent | Nov 3, 2010

What’s being said, the framing of design, in the containment of fragrance. Ancient containments | Museo Santa Maria Novella, Firenze (Girvin) Pierre Dinand, story and Girvin: collaborations, explorations and ideals: perfume bottled, scent packaged, story told....

Women are the world…

by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Oct 26, 2010

Women are the world; art, archetype, anonymity and the TED prize 2011. Portrait of JR. Courtesy © Christopher Shay If you don’t have time, just watch this. I’m sure you’re on the list, the TED list, and you get their mailings. If not, you should....

Simple sketches

by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 6, 2010

Drawn from the heart: simple design prototypes from the 30s: design strategy and clarity of intention The heart of creative: drawing, sketching, roughs, comprehensives made by hand, brush and simplistic inspiration. A friend of mine in Santa Monica, composer Stuart...

THE LUSTRATION OF FASHION: ANTONIO LOPEZ AND RUBEN TOLEDO

by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Oct 4, 2010

THE SPIRIT OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION TAKEN TO ANOTHER EDGE. FINDING PERSONAL ALIGNMENTS, THE HISTORY OF THE PRACTICE. Antonio Lopez illustration Origin: lustration 1615–25;  < L lūstrātus,  ptp. of lūstrāre  to purify, illumine. Seeluster1 , -ate1...

Fashion, Logos, Branding: Too Much Stuff?

by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Human brands | Oct 1, 2010

YSL, American Eagle, New Era Customization and the Interpretations of the Crowd. What about brands that are your brand? Make your own world: Working at Yves Saint Laurent, I can recall a conversation about either oui or non — the idea of more big YSL logo...

Design Leadership Principles of Steve Jobs and the Apple Empire: The Twelve Steps of Design Discipline.

by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Sep 10, 2010

Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs What’s the point of leading if you’re not in front? I was studying overviews on Steve Jobs, Apple strategy, some thinking about leadership and the reflection in consumer relationships and Apple marketing, but more particularly...

Rodarte | Intentionality and attentionality in the strategy of the Mulleavy sisters

by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2010

What happened with Michelle Obama, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards and MAC Cosmetics? Sometime back, I’d sent a note to Kate + Laura, each with a painting on bark gathered from the high hills of Kaua’i, and a story to tell — that...

The scent of Paris | notes on fragrance, Serge Lutens, women and sex

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Scent | Jul 16, 2010

Exploring the concept of memory, experience and the layering of the scented, working in Paris: the evocation of the perfumes of women and the metaphor of place and fragrance design. (Photo: Girvin) A friend of mine asked that I offer something — a quick essay...
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