Search results for: place making
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | May 31, 2017
The Quest for Meaningful Relationships and Memorable Commitments, Magnetic Brands. Strategies of change, impermanence and content: collaborative design and GIRVIN evolutions. I was talking to someone about history — my history — now four decades of continuous practice... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places | Apr 13, 2009
Imagining a new identity for an building icon. The World Trade Center There are layers in play in the experience of the procession of how people connect with buildings. Buildings do, for the most part, one thing. They hold people. Interestingly enough, it’s not... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | May 1, 2013
The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer I just told this story recently. I was working with a colleague, in Florida — our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place that would be a kind of learning experience... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2013
In the spirit of light, storytelling illumination. The character of what can be seen, in scene, the drama of Light. As an intensely curious person — a person that seeks out answers by finding the people that build things, do things, make things, one of my... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Scent | Nov 22, 2010
Aman | Bali, Indonesia (Girvin) THE HEART OF FRAGRANCE IN HOTELS AND RESORTS Is it a designed scent, the perfume that is gathered into a perfume fusion that signals the messaging of the opening experience in entering a space? Or is it more holistic, the bigger... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Sep 14, 2010
Holistic brands: Tabasco and the nature of geographic reference. Brands with a story that are linked to place. I’m looking for True Brands. What I seek is: A story. A person. An offering. Integrity in the making. Care fullness — in the distribution. And a legacy that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Places | Jun 21, 2010
Working in NYC | Four explorations in 24 hours During a run at TED, there was an architect that I’d always been curious about — a woman whose work ranges far beyond the competent; she’s a thinker, a strategist of place, the visionary practitioner of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Jan 10, 2010
Dawn Clark|photo Perfume, memory, sentience and wandering; exploring the fume of an experience. Getting around, wandering, I find myself not infrequently smelling my way through places. Scent is memory; it’s the definition of recollection in experience. You can... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 16, 2016
ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR AND CENTERING Walking a old, forested Buddhist compound outside of Tokyo, I was told that the temple site was a specially sacred site — and one that was anciently “magical.” The idea of spirit spaces, places that have special power,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Feb 4, 2014
THE BRAND AND FRAGRANCE STORYTELLING STRATEGIES OF COMME DES GARÇONS “There is no plan.” Rei Kawakubo As a blogger on design, and on perfume, and architecture, I’m always looking for threads, entanglements and weaving between lines of thinking action... Read More
