by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Retail, Trends | Aug 18, 2011
Thinking Craft, Materials Cutting and Computation I’ve been working on a series of journals. Recently, I’d been drawing from a iPad — and learning to craft formats and visuals that cross from photographic gatherings — and scribed, live,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands | Mar 11, 2011
Strategy, Brand Story, Leadership — the crossroads iPad 2: This past week, Steve Jobs showed up to a standing ovation for the launch of Apple’s new rendering of the iPad. “Here Comes the Sun” was the opening sound message — the clarion... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Feb 17, 2010
Steve Jobs, iPad and the persona of innovation. In the past, I’ve explored the idea of the human brand, a persona driven organization type that focuses on the character of central leadership in defining brand approaches to enterprise and marketing expression.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Jul 1, 2019
LAYERING MESSAGES AND IMAGERY IN BRAND WORKSHOPPING. THE CARTOGRAPHY OF BRANDSCAPE (Digital Brush work) MAPPING BRAND THINKING | Part two THE DOODLING OF IDEAS, PATHWAYS OF EXPLORATION SCRIBBLED, BRAND MAPPING AND DOCUMENTATION: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Retail | Aug 21, 2012
How did that happen? Love, love, love. The best brands in the world move past the nature of conventional commerce relationships, it’s far beyond mere exchange of cash and product; it’s emotional and exhilarated — they are, like other love brands,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail | Oct 19, 2011
EXPLORING RETAIL DESIGN / PLACEMAKING EXPERIMENTS IN STORE STRATEGY AND CHARITABLE CAUSES Notations with the iPad | Journal Making + Site Explorations TRAVELING We’re always looking. With Girvin’s connection to Nordstrom, we went to explore more —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Oct 17, 2012
The sensuality of the book I was working in a remote, private room, the so-called rare book library at Girvin | Seattle. It’s a small space, and in this book room, the volumes start at about a yard from the floor, then rise up to somewhere around 10 feet. People... Read More
by Hannah Moore | Artists, General | Dec 1, 2022
Enjoy this free mistletoe pattern to use as your own winter-themed background on your computer, iPhone, or iPad—or even use it to create your own wrapping paper! DESKTOP: 1024×768 \\\ 1280×1024 \\\ 1680×1050 MOBILE: iPhone \\\ iPad Pro... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Jul 21, 2011
The context of designing places that are human, places that are not. In the principles of fast casual food / beverage design, a mid-priced, faster service experience proposition, the notion of the holistic character of guest presence has to do with a layering of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 14, 2010
And me. A week back someone said, “why are you always writing about Steve Jobs, I mean, really — what’s the connection?” Calligraphy The connection goes back to Stanford. And the Stanford Conference on Design. Back then, I would go to these... Read More
