Blogs By Tim Girvin
Ted | 2008 | Aspen (1) – The Big Questions
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 some thoughts, in opening: ..... Louise...
Charles Eames
I was thinking about things floating, ideas that are on one level, then another. And that idea of the interconnection of the idea on the surface, and the idea beneath. "The details are not details. They make the product." So says, Charles Eames. So you might be...
Rethinking Interactive Design: Troika Art & Design Studio
There are known levels of interactivity -- is it us, to solely reflect something rightly inter|active? Or is it how something we create that responds to environmental stimuli? We move by something...and a series of triggers offers shifting visualizations,...
Design & the Elastic Mind | Museum of Modern Art
Organized by Paola Antonelli, the show opens with an act of high-tech graffiti. A can of spray paint is suspended from a system of cables and pulleys in front of a wall. A small motor guided by computer software winds and unwinds the cables, moving the spray can...
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...
Herzog & De Meuron | The Bird’s Nest | Designing for real
I'm interested in the work of Herzog & DeMeuron. The Dominus Winery | Napa Valley And who isn't? Interesting, the art of it -- the work that they do. But what I'm fascinated by is the notion of the raw realness of the work -- the truth of story, visual and...
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
Slow time design by Thorunn Arndottir (Iceland) – clock bead dropping for time measurement (NYTimes) 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...
Wayfinding
What is the way, found? I was thinking about this. In the context of the work that you do. And what I do. I've wondered about that, the character of being lost, being found. Finding your way. And there's a part of the work that we do that is just about that -- helping...