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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 18, 2020
YOU COULD FIND A WAY OUT, THAT COULD BE A WAY IN. I was first struck by this sign that I found in an antiques shop outside of London; and there’s a story—for those calligraphically-inclined—that this font [for the sign] was originally designed [1918] by early... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers | Nov 13, 2019
DESIGNING THE ALPHABET AS A TOOL OF BRAND EXPRESSION IMAGE: GIRVIN for Bloomingdale’s | digitally-incised dimensional ornamental star alphabets in 12 languages –––––– What about typography— what it looks like, the form of language, visualized? What about this... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Storytelling | Dec 19, 2018
EXAMINING THE DEEP SPACE OFSOULFUL BRAND STRATEGY. W H A T I F? You were to think: “really—there’s something deeper, more profound, more magnetically, more soulfully powerful about the enterprise that I’m working on.” There’s more. Really? Perhaps you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Designers, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0 | Nov 8, 2017
THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE MIND: FROM THOUGHT TO WORD IN DESIGNED LETTERFORM LINGUISTICS | ALPHABETS AS BRAND VOCABULARIES. Working on hundreds of logos and corporate identity packages, in decades of design and brand development for clients around the world, over time... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 18, 2016
The study of the Fifth Century Legacy of Chinese Painting Scholar, Practitioner and Theorist: Hsieh Ho “Energy is eternal delight”. William Blake Earlier in my career, decades back, I was exposed to the study of classical Chinese art theory and its applications to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 12, 2011
The Script of Screen | Macintosh logos, the Finger Stroke and the iDesign Environments iPad, iPhone, Air or Paper: drawing words like music Calligraphy, Steve Jobs and the Macintosh When I was working with Steve Jobs, the first job was drawing for, and with, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Motion Pictures | Jan 15, 2010
The sense of time in brand: chronology, palaeography and theatrical accuracy. There are a grouping of writers that explore the concepts of typographic design and motion pictures. I’m one. While the notion of typographic precision, in design, is some what of a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General | May 25, 2009
A voyage of inspired imagination. When you are young, you recall points of connection that are unmistakably remarkable, they are life changing — dynamically shifting you from one point of view to another. Or, they might too suggest moments of new discovering... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 9, 2020
IN THE JOURNEY OF BRANDING—AND THE VISUALS AND MESSAGES THAT ARE PART OF ANY BRANDING INITIATIVE—THERE IS, INVARIABLY, A MESSAGE INSIDE THE MESSAGE. THERE’S A STORY IN THE STORY, THERE’S A TELLING INSIDE THE NARRATIVE. I believe that I first experienced this in the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | May 13, 2020
THE REPETITION OF DESIGN AND SYMBOLICAL PATTERNING: ALLEGORICAL BRAND DESIGN. IN THE EXPLORATION OF THE DESIGN, PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION AND THEIR TRANSLATION OF IDEAS, THERE ARE PATTERNS THAT EMERGE. In the journey of the work, the act of designing—that is, the... Read More
