Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Robert Polet | CEO | Gucci
Image by Tim Girvin What was compelling to me was Robert’s history. From Kuala Lumpur to the University of Oregon. At a luxury event, he was one of a string speakers that I spent some time with—talking to them about their work. Their brands—from the high end of...
Lev Leviev
To be involved with Lev Leviev is, at least for many that are attached to him, a challenge -- a mystery. I've worked with two friends, several clients, who've mentioned that they've only seen him a couple of times. And that he is modest, direct and enthusiastic in his...
Notes on Jai-Alai | Danis Beach Jai-Alai Club
The Blur | Notes on Jai Alai. Jai-Alai, you would've liked the scene; it was trippy. Very old Miami. Gambling and card playing in the adjoining spaces. With a special boozing and smoking lounge - hyper funky... Notes on jai-alai. It's, for one, several hundred years...
The symbolism of the circle
I'd written a couple of weeks back about the enso, the zenga brush-drawn circles of the Zen masters, as a statement of satori and the enlightened condition. There's more, to the notion of the symbology of the circle, as a gesture of containment and perfection. As a...
After All These Years
I still love to draw these: Finials -- the finishing stroke on a letterform. Here's one: f Even yesterday. One, long, calligraphic finial -- standing there, alone: b ---- finial (FIN-ee-ehl, FI-nee-) noun 1. An ornamental object on top of an architectural structure or...
d.Log
I believe in this, to the action of staying creative: The real presumption is that you are creative in the first place. Sometimes people who run creative enterprises are, in fact, great at running organizations, but less so to the challenges of creative activations....
The ring of bone
For maybe some 25 years I've been collecting zenga. These are the paintings of Zen masters. They are of the haboku style, which is the most captivating, to my aesthetic, which is called "broken ink". It's about saying something in nothing. It's about an empty handed...
Nokiablue
Seen this? I've been shooting retail and designspace for a while -- and I go in... The Nokia people didn't like me in there, too much. And I go out. And then I send this to you. I do like the sheer presence of the blue, here -- especially against the black of YSL next...
ob viam
3.25.06 Cairn of lavastone | Mt. Merapi | Java obviate OB-vee-ayt, transitive verb: To prevent by interception; to anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary. Obviate derives from Latin obviare, "to meet or encounter," from ob viam, "placed or coming in the way"...
Cindy Gallop
I found this word, and thought of you, Cindy. Nice spending some time with you, exploring your ideas and home, there on 23rd, NYC, looking out to the sunny side of the street, from a dramatically darkening interior. A silky lingerie interior that, in its inherent...