by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 11, 2009
Examining the concept of set design, visuals and production reflected in experience and branding: It took me a long time to determine whether this structure for the film Quantum of Solace was real, or a production design concept for the movie. As it was, the building...
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Storytelling | Feb 23, 2009
How does the framing of sight, and outcome of interpreted visualziations, drive design? And in looking — seeing — do you increasingly tune your sensing of visual content — and the display of it? While it’s surely impossible to define,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Sep 22, 2008
The BMW | Oracle Trimaran for the America’s Cup I’ve been a fan of BMW design for a long time. But I had a recent encounter that was breathtaking. I’ll get to that. The car of my beginnings was a 1972 2002. And what I savored about that car was...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 21, 2008
I gave a commencement address, to a group of about one hundred graduating students and several hundred friends and family members at a design school here on Friday. I decided to improvise — live, at the event. But with this discipline, jotted on the way:...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Oct 19, 2007
design — the implementation of the signature, the marking, the descriptive curve, has always been that thing which crosses borders — for the sharing of one thing makes its way to another — it’s found here, signed, and extended there…and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers | Jan 2, 2007
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...