by Tim Girvin | Artists, General | Nov 30, 2007
The Tank | NYTimes I had, we had, this job working for Nintendo, which was really about doing mostly packaging for new launches. For about 6 years, that grouping of projects. Hardware gaming packaging design — and all licensee and Nintendo product launches. It...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
What about lines? I’ve been thinking about them. And they’re everywhere. Obviously. But what I’m curious about is the patterning of the line — and what lies in the heart of the line. How’s it made? What gesture within? And the designed...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
This is about identity, visualizing and animation — and retail. And something I’d tried to do, but couldn’t. And someone (WOW | Tokyo) that did. My story. Their story. —- Last year, I’d worked on this idea of projecting this giant...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Luxury | Nov 25, 2007
Todd Heisler | The New York Times I’m wondering about the concept of attention. And the holding of things. How we hold something, how we hold attention. There’s something to memory and holding a concept in one’s mind. For many of us, for me, the idea...
by Tim Girvin | General, Scent | Nov 24, 2007
http://www.amouage.com/ What’s the story, what’s the layering behind the fragrance, that leads to the story. Fanny Adams, Paris, tells this story. November is also a month to celebrate for Middle Eastern perfume company Amouage, which launches two new...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Luxury, Scent | Nov 15, 2007
I had the chance to connect with Aerin Lauder, the 40th floor, the GM building, 5th Avenue and Central Park South — for a tour of her grandmother’s offices as the presentation forum — gallery, rather — for her personal collection of objects for...
by Tim Girvin | General, Retail, Scent | Nov 14, 2007
There are two attributes of experience in shopping. One is purely acquisitional — that is, merely on the notion of action and purchase; there’s no focus other than that, in acting and acquiring. You are looking for something and you want it, you buy it...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Luxury, Places, Retail | Nov 14, 2007
Consider this — three remarkable women, each dramatically challenged by trying health related experiences, each finding new truths in combining allopathic and naturopathic cures by exploring new models in healing — and creating a business around them. And...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Nov 14, 2007
11.12.07 Photo by Alex Erikson | Capezio Brands Dance Library of Israel at the Harvard Club. The annual gala this year awarded Paul Terlizzi, CEO of Capezio, its prize for outstanding achievement and contributions to the arts and dance community. And we’re proud...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Nov 12, 2007
The casino’s opened — and Robert Earl is back on the block. While he’s lost millions in the final daze of Planet Hollywood, in the earlier entertainment modeling — somehow he’s managed to bring back the glamor with a return to (and of)...
