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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Storytelling, Trends | Jun 8, 2018
PATTERN COMPUTER LAUNCHED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA. [image: Pattern Computer] What if there was a unique way to surveil vast rivers of data and see rippling strings of insights in a wholly new manner? It should be said that the notion of seeking trends and patterning is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM | May 24, 2018
I AM WALKING THE FOREST, EXPLORING THE DEEPER PLACE OF ARBOREALITY; THESE TREE TAPESTRIES ARE LONG-MADE, OLDER GROVES, THE ONES THAT HAVE DARKER PLACES ADMINISTERED BY THE OLDER AND BIGGER TREES. You might ask, what is the symbolism of the tree in the context of what... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 5, 2013
Exploring brand culture, in a circumspect study I was talking to a client about getting into a place — “when you’re in, what do you see, what do you sense?” Being one that works in retail and restaurants, as an experience designer, I tend to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 17, 2014
2011, photograph by ©Steve Henke The Agent, An Axiom of Ayurvedic Principles, the Founder of Aveda, Intelligent Nutrients, Moves On. Remarkable people have a weaver-like mingling of a tapestried storytelling that frames out the threading of their lives — they... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Sep 25, 2014
There is the sign, which is a way — a tool to explain process and direction, to instruct, to mark, to place: made. The Ace Hotel, Expressed Metal Plate But to the notion of place-making, how that sign is made, gesture or stone, or cut metal, wood can tell a layering... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 21, 2014
The Signature of Your Presence You have style. Sure, there are your clothes. Your shoes. Your hair Your house, your apartment, your car — and the summary of your brand relationships. Then there is the style of you. Who are you — what do you stand for? What do you care... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands, Places, Storytelling | Feb 12, 2015
The Deep Sprint: If you’re going someplace, how are you paying attention? Brand journeys and explorations. I can remember a time — especially when my children were younger — that traveling was a cumbersome burden. Now, my children are onto their own lives, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 3, 2013
What Are You Looking At? In the journey of examination, the notion of self study is part of that voyage. But who’s with you, who’s helping; who’s reMinding you? I think that each of us has an ancient soul, something that goes back and back, far into... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 17, 2013
Designing Divination — the Craft of your Path Built by Hand and Shown in the Throw The pick of the draw — and the drawing out, the woven journey, the thread of path, and the cartography of the psyche. What you see is what you get; what you get is what you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to... Read More
