by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Luxury, Places, Retail | May 22, 2007
I’ve been tracking Tom Ford’s work closely, from before our YSL days. I loved that work, working with you…and it was great learning more about the man, the history ( all of them ) and the characters that emerged in the brand. Not sure where...
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 | Cool People, Designers, Places | May 17, 2007
Yesterday, I went to the open house of the architectural design group NBBJ. The point of the practice, rather uniquely — I might offer, is about collaboration and the celebration of ideas. Many practices are of course about doing the fundamental work of defining...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 11, 2007
There’s an inherently classical discipline to the luminous experiments and exploration that James Carpenter’s work seems to embody. He’s an architect — of light, and the incipient interplay of space. It’s all about the nature of light,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | May 7, 2007
Working with a master. Sometime, ranging a year or more back, I’d worked with Paul Bertolli. And a friend — Stephen Darland. Stephen was the one that introduced me; and he and Paul needed help in defining, creating a brand that evolved around the concept...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Retail | May 6, 2007
Image by Tim Girvin What was compelling to me was Robert’s history. From Kuala Lumpur to the University of Oregon. At a luxury event, he was one of a string speakers that I spent some time with—talking to them about their work. Their brands—from the high end of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People | May 3, 2007
To be involved with Lev Leviev is, at least for many that are attached to him, a challenge — a mystery. I’ve worked with two friends, several clients, who’ve mentioned that they’ve only seen him a couple of times. And that he is modest, direct...
by Tim Girvin | Places | Apr 28, 2007
The Blur | Notes on Jai Alai. Jai-Alai, you would’ve liked the scene; it was trippy. Very old Miami. Gambling and card playing in the adjoining spaces. With a special boozing and smoking lounge – hyper funky… Notes on jai-alai. It’s, for one,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 23, 2007
I’d written a couple of weeks back about the enso, the zenga brush-drawn circles of the Zen masters, as a statement of satori and the enlightened condition. There’s more, to the notion of the symbology of the circle, as a gesture of containment and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Apr 20, 2007
I still love to draw these: Finials — the finishing stroke on a letterform. Here’s one: f Even yesterday. One, long, calligraphic finial — standing there, alone: b —- finial (FIN-ee-ehl, FI-nee-) noun 1. An ornamental object on top of an...
