Search results for: symbolism
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 11, 2013
Design thinking deep metaphors When I was working as a brand / design strategist at Procter & Gamble, on brand innovation, I’d partnered with a closely-aligned colleague there, Iain Douglas. We talked about, and worked on, the layering of ideas — of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Places, Retail, Trends | Jun 20, 2013
A Place has a Pattern, a Brand has a Chromosomal Character, That is Evinced in Visual Language; and so too, Language is a Patterning. I’m looking for patterns; I’m always looking for the patterning of things that I know on the surface, and the patterns and... 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
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 15, 2013
The symbolism of the window Thinking design / portals of storytelling / brand / story / insight. In the window to experience, you see in: in=sight. In the window to the object: circumspect — you walk around, surveil from the circumference. In the window to the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 29, 2010
Exploring brand metaphors and soul: charting strategic pathways and innovation I was thinking about search — reaching in(to people) — listening to them, learning from them, and gathering their impressions and ideas. Search for it, listen to them, what does... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 8, 2009
Cloud mind: the metaphor of fluent vapor — the clouded allegory in the context of computing, burgeoning creative, a multiplicity of minds: amassed. “A person using cumular language would say that a universal negative is upset not only by predication of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 1, 2009
Fire, the long river and the mist in the motion in learning Some time back, I was speaking (and working with) with a writer — Kurt Dahl, a IT manager and strategist then for Nordstrom, about the idea of the future of the book. He didn’t really believe in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 22, 2014
When you draw a letter, what happens? A drawing is a drawing out; draw a letter, the string of story unspools and it’s something more. A letter is a map, an anciently originated succession of markings, a thought cartography, a seared, scarred, scratched, penned,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 26, 2013
The journey out, and the journey back; looking forward to where you’ve been. I was rowing, and as I pull ahead, off the beach and into the choppy slipstream of the salted sea channel, out to the open oceans, I saw that I was rowing away from where I had been,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 19, 2013
The metaphor of the Rod, the Ring, the Line, the Circle. I think symbolically: when I try to find the answer to a problem, I draw it out. And for me, it’s that: “drawing it out.” Like a string, a line, a movement. A dance. The idea of a stroke having... Read More
