by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Jul 9, 2010
Smelling where you are Arising this morning, I can gather the scent of wild grasses, the salted smell of sea, the slight drift of sulphur from the cast of decaying seaweeds, wafting from the rocky shore below — and there is a note of stone; pine, crushed in my...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Places | Jul 6, 2010
Home: the house where the heart is. Speaking of the idea of branding, and the heart of the matter, the idea of exploring the nature of spirit in place couldn’t be more intimate than a place that people call their home — a house, a place of holding and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Places | Jun 21, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours During a run at TED, there was an architect that I’d always been curious about — a woman whose work ranges far beyond the competent; she’s a thinker, a strategist of place, the visionary practitioner of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Jun 19, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours I was getting tired, the long drive out to Mountainville, and the long(er) drive back to the city. Handy Magellan in car navigation was helpful, making our way back to the Bronx, still: traffic snarled. In fact, I...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Places | Jun 18, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours The second tour was a run, the following morning, out of the city to a place in Mountainville, upstate NY, a long-running gathering of a family tradition in building a sculpture reserve. “People ask how Ted Ogden...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | May 25, 2010
The architecture of type “The map is not the territory. Shaping context & connection is an act of architecture. A new form of space requires a new form of architecture. Space made of information requires information architecture. ” Alfred Korzybski...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | May 7, 2010
This blog reference comes from a request from Steve Heller — to write something about scent — about design — and creating and understanding experience. I was talking to him at a conference we were speaking at together — and he asked —...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places, Trends | Apr 20, 2010
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language It’s been an obsession with me to explore the concepts of brand development and patterning in place-making. And it’s something, as well, that Girvin has been involved with for...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places | Feb 2, 2010
The right type — communicating simple, elegant pathways in environmental graphic design. I was standing in the subway, NY Transit Authority (MTA) — the proverbial NYC subway system and thinking about the complexity of the way-finding system there. Frankly,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places | Aug 8, 2009
The opening of the mimetic thread: patterning in place made. I realize that everything we do, everything that one does, either goes forward, in the advancement of that personal melody in the capacity of experience — or, perhaps, it goes back, to the beginning...
