Dimensioned drawing: coming to life
See this? I was thinking about you. And I thought about this idea. ------ Remember this book? Harold and the Purple Crayon. I've had a dream about this idea - the notion of drawing something, that moves and comes to life in a breathed animation. You might have seen...
Notes on The Matrix design
There's another symbolic value to the O and the 1 beyond the nature of the digital translation of content and interpretation. O, the curved enclosure -- is, in sequence etymologically -- from Sanskrit -- the sunya; Arabic, sifr; Medieval Latin, ciphra; the cipher, the...
Material ConneXion | NYC | Bangkok | Cologne | Milan
Good morning -- I'm not sure if you've been here, Material ConneXion, but given your interests -- just in case -- I'm passing this along. I've got a client that is being represented by this group, and wanted to know more -- so I went there; it's just blocks from...
Of course there’s a retort
Weblink to article "Innovation and Sales - Never Say Never, Tim Girvin" ------ Never say never. Let's look back. First of all, can't quite remember a quote like that, but too, what's the point of the method, to the medium? Is it that then, to McLuhan's titled...
Tidal art(ifice)…
Seen this, friend?? Tide sculpture...chandelier! No, it's not from Tide products...But gatherings from the tide, the Dungeness coastline in Kent | UK. http://www.stuarthaygarth.com/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=1080
Paula Scher. Principal at Pentagram | NYC.
I was thinking, for some time, about what would be a good opening to this year. Would it be some meditation on what the year might hold? About erecting yet another cairn in the wind and storm-riven shores of the island. The symbolism of incessant rain? Some writing...
First Girvin Blog
12.29.06 This is the first day (and the first LIVE text) of the GIRVINVIRGIN blog @ girvin.com. Scroll over the GIRVIN brandmark, and there it will be. Soon. It's not going to be the first entry (per se > chronologically) -- and it's really not on a day that has...
DC Shoes
I keep looking around.? This is a boarding brand -- boards being skate and snow. More than shoes, obviously. http://www.dcshoes.com/home.asp Their website is relatively quiet, given the more radical character of their brand. And the store | story that holds them....
Camper signatura
Istikal Caddesi / Istanbul : Camper shop.? I liked the concept of these shoes. I bought a pair, but my daughters intimate that they look like bowling shoes. Since I mostly wear black, black, and more black, with a little white thrown in, it seemed a natural. Except to...
Storytelling
Bill Virgin, Seattle PI To the nature of shifting marketing, to marketing environments...I'd offer this: We tend to visualize the shifting of messages, for businesses, as a tuning of the story. So if there's the implication that a brand, for example, has a story that...