by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | Sep 3, 2007
I realized that the branding visualizations that Sprint’s been doing with conductor-like expressions of people moving things, ideas, teams, etc., with light, was strangely reminiscent of something in my mind — not sure what, but it’s there....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, 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, General | 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 | General, 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, General | Jul 29, 2007
I’d met with Clodagh in the 80s. She was starting, I was starting. Favorite
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...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, General, Storytelling | Jul 16, 2007
7 / 11 / 07 1 | 1000 of a second Slow emotion. Lincoln Center | NYC The scrim from beneath. I was in Lincoln Square, the other night, upper west side, NYC — and I saw the recent installation by David Michalek. This slow motion photographic dissection of the...
