by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 6, 2010
ALPHABETICA | THE STROKES OF THE ALPHABET STROKES, FINISHES, GESTURES, DETAILS — ON THE SERIES OF THE RIGHTFUL MOVES. Teaching calligraphy: the craft of the letter at Girvin. A broadside from 1975, still used in the calligraphy classes at Girvin There’s a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 14, 2010
And me. A week back someone said, “why are you always writing about Steve Jobs, I mean, really — what’s the connection?” Calligraphy The connection goes back to Stanford. And the Stanford Conference on Design. Back then, I would go to these...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Apr 16, 2010
Exploring the signature, brand story, the drawn line and den röda tråden I was working in Sweden, last week, with the CEO of a remarkable company, Hästens, and our discussions ranged around the nature of human experience — from the spirit of sleep, rest and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 15, 2010
The nature of the scripted hand, gesture and the fluent link to the mind I was talking to Steven Heller, the former Creative Director of the New York Times, and a person of astonishing connections and scholarship in the real of the history of design, author of more...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General | Oct 24, 2009
The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspiration For a long time, I’ve been exploring the realm of the mysterious. Perhaps my whole life. But mystery is something that speaks to the character of that which is merely unseen. It is what is hidden....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 10, 2009
The stroke of ideas | calligraphy, lustration and the smoke of being. I’m contemplating the idea of the liquidity of ideas, in the animations of ink, scent, smoke and ideals. I’ve written about the context of this, earlier — the notion of energy and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 17, 2009
Exploring the origin, development and renewed applications of the word. Brand storytelling, animated in humanized beauty — mind, thought, hand, expression. Calligraphy is beauty and writing, combined. And it’s long been seen as a kind of remote and obscure...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | May 18, 2007
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...
by Tim Girvin | General | Mar 4, 2007
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....
