Blogs By Tim Girvin
H E L L O,
Write On
There's one thing to a pen, drawing, there's another to a pen, writing. And being a longer term practioner who plays in both spaces -- the drawing and the writing, it will be interesting to see, yet again, if this concept takes hold. Yes, me -- Newton. Two of them....
Notes on Apple
Randall Stross... Greetings! Nice, your work: Sunday | NYTimes | Bright ideas! | Digital Domain 5.27.07 (Randall Stross) I found your observations on Apple Store, as carefully and clinically precise in their analyses as they could hope to be, I suppose, to be another...
Roxy Paine | NYC
Madison Park | NYC. 5.22.07 11.23pm People have asked me about the occasional address that I close mails with -- TSG | madison park | NYC. What's that, they say? Are you in a park? Well, sometimes yes. Girvin | NYC is located on 26th + Broadway, just off Madison Park....
Surfaces
Okay, so I've got to open the Microsoft launch notations with a link to: P O P U L A R Mechanics. Might be interesting to explore the concept of Surfaces | Project Milan, Microsoft's recent pronouncement. And you can find good content there. But what I wonder about,...
Tom Ford – part I
I've been tracking Tom Ford's work closely, from before our YSL days. I loved that work, working with you...and it was great learning more about the man, the history ( all of them ) and the characters that emerged in the brand. Not sure where that's gone, but...YSL...
Peruvian calligraphy
It's interesting, studying the web, and learning something of the reach of those without, within. There are, in surveying the records, people reaching to me all over the world. And sometimes, I see them studying us, our world -- the work that we do, and it's...
NBBJ
Yesterday, I went to the open house of the architectural design group NBBJ. The point of the practice, rather uniquely -- I might offer, is about collaboration and the celebration of ideas. Many practices are of course about doing the fundamental work of defining...
Refractions and reflections | James Carpenter
There's an inherently classical discipline to the luminous experiments and exploration that James Carpenter's work seems to embody. He's an architect -- of light, and the incipient interplay of space. It's all about the nature of light, the refraction of it -- the...
Paul Bertolli
Working with a master. Sometime, ranging a year or more back, I'd worked with Paul Bertolli. And a friend -- Stephen Darland. Stephen was the one that introduced me; and he and Paul needed help in defining, creating a brand that evolved around the concept of salumi....
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...