by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Oct 15, 2007
I’ve been studying sex. And retail. Since I was a teenager. Not necessarily in that order. Nor presumably together. But I’ve been studying them. My first exposures to the concept was as a boy scout traveling in Europe, as an early teenager. What I’d...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 15, 2007
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It’s interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 23, 2007
Visual Thesaurus visualizations, brand development and GIRVIN. —- As a designer, and someone that works in the space of branding and the human character of business communications, writing plays a significant role. Moreover, there’s the issue of how people...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 16, 2007
When someone gets something — understands a message, how is it gathered, how is it understood? The lay of the alphabet, the geometries therein, speak to the message of the mind, laid bare, in the character of the black on the white, the message — missive...
by Tim Girvin | General, Luxury, Trends | Aug 12, 2007
There are some that believe that luxury’s rocking – it’s just one big booming affair. But where in the world is it rocking? There are others, particularly more fluent to the history and movement of luxury brand(s) in Asia that see a potential turning...
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2007
Beowulf What calls, from ancient halls, the spirit of that other distant world, far more than a thousand and five hundred years back in the balled skein of time? Beowulf! Palaeography, or the history of the written world has long been a strategic underpinning of what...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers | Jul 29, 2007
I’d met with Clodagh in the 80s. She was starting, I was starting. Now, interestingly, after all this time, the size of her group, the size of our group, is about the same. Both of us got big, then smaller, leaner. But Clodagh’s modeling is substantially...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | Jul 24, 2007
Matt Groening & Tim Girvin: Cartooned life Meditations on careers, creative and titles. I met Matt Groening first at TED, 2007. More often than not, people have said that the big connection that I have with college is cartooning. “Hey, you’re from the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Jul 23, 2007
You. The question? What mystery found, what box unopened — what, unanswerable issues — what comes forth, now found, newly discovered? What are you looking for, what is there to be ? What is that? I’ve been thinking about this a lot this weekend. What...
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Jul 17, 2007
7 | 9 | 07 The New York Times | explorations of the new edifice. I went to check out the New York Times new building. It’s not all theirs, of course. But, it’s new. The structure was created by Renzo Piano — I’ve long admired his work. Since...
