Blogs By Tim Girvin
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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...
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...
Julian Schnabel and Ian Schrager
I spent a couple of nights with my partner at the Gramercy Park Hotel, NYC, Schrager’s collaboration with Julian Schnabel — painter, filmmaker, now, interior designer. I found the space intriguing. What was it — dark, deeply scented of burning firewood, and some other...
Making Ballet
I spent the day with Balletmakers | Capezio the day before yesterday. It was Cristina and I. Some interviews, some research, some connections. More gathering. This will be going on for a couple of weeks, the two of us. But there were intriguing other insights into the...