Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Art Wolfe | Exploring a human brand of curiosity, discovery, love
Art Wolfe | Wikipedia imagery file Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The brand that is a living, loving being. Art Wolfe and I go way back -- decades; but my personal relationship with him goes back further -- into the recesses of my younger years,...
HEMA | The Netherlands | Retelling online retail
We've talked about, or I've written about, that idea of retail experience in the context of feeling what the environment might be like. What if there was the chance to tell that story online in a more compelling, livelier modeling? Rather than the usual stuff – stuff...
Free! Wired Magazine and Chris Anderson, the Long Tail continued…
Margaret Swart, a friend from long back, asked for me to do something that one might think of as odd. Unusual. That is, to create a hand-lettered cover for one of the top rated technology magazines there is: Wired. A magazine that uses a hand drawn script for the...
The letter
The very center of the work that I do lies here, in the heart of the letterform. There can be just that one touch, that relates to the person. D.4-D. The letter, big or small, translates to content. c1460 G. ASHBY Policy Prince 648 Poems (E.E.T.S.) 33 Yf god sende you...
Real Slow | Seeking truth in moving slower
I, for one, would comment that my life's overwhelmed with speed. Getting projects, getting them done quickly, moving to the next pitch, getting that work, getting that done, then writing about it all quickly enough that I've not left it too far behind. It's all about...
Tony Stark | The Iron Man
Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark is the man in disambiguation -- confused on one front, solid as iron, in another. His metal clad skin covers a soul that is torn and sheared in seething pain. Iron, clasps heart. And exploring the signature of Tony Stark -- at once, the...
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Exploring story in journal narrative
For about 15 years, I've been using the journal as a kind of narrative to my life. More like a scrapbook, it's a gathering of ideas and experiences that relate to what I've seen, reacted to, contemplating, in the spirit of my creative examinations. The journal is the...
The signature
The signature is a marking, a signing, that links the gesture of the hand, the fingertips, the wrist, the arm to the mind. It's a kind of drawing of the mind -- your signature is the reflection of your intelligence. That is, I suppose, the character of graphology --...
154 South Gate at the Jumeirah Essex House | NYC
Jumeirah, the Dubai-based global hospitality brand, created -- with help of restaurant designer Tony Chi | NYC -- a new visioning of dining experience at the Essex House. Our role was to define strategy and personality, gather pertinent commentary from Kerry...
the final stroke
.... I'd written about Ken earlier, the work that he was doing on this sidewalk. I'd surely offer that Tony Goldman, the developer, should be applauded for his winning (and willing) innovation. Must be a visionary, to implement this street art, as an adjacent...