by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Jul 23, 2012
Stephen Kenn > Manly men brands | designing for them — building brand + personal stories about them Embracing the masculine spirit, design, thinking, story and truth in offering. Thinking about a man, and designing for men — it’s a challenging...
by Tim Girvin | General | Jul 20, 2012
The captivation of smoke. Smoke signals, fire, designed motion. [parfumare — “to smoke through.”] The layering of smoke, art, incense, color and the tinting of dust — the tracery of par fum. The smoky signals of journey. I was contemplating...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Jul 18, 2012
The book, that is the leaf of time, space that becomes place and a world. Guy Laramee bookwork in transformation — presented by Foster White Gallery, Seattle A friend of mine pointed out a show, of an artist — with a broad vocabulary of explorations, Guy...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Incubation | Jul 16, 2012
Building a wave, rippling out innovation and incubation strategies In the past, [1943 / Burbank] there was a team that built a remote, offsite-working, brainstorming and product innovation model called the skunkworks. Supposedly, the origination of the skunkworks...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jul 13, 2012
What I have learned in one day is t h a t : ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– E V E R Y D A Y i s a J O U R N E Y [SMALL OR LARGE] ––– That: however long, difficult or winding these stairs might be — their point is to take you to another point of view,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jul 12, 2012
The Legacy of the Eagle Scout Award This year, the badge and legacy of the Eagle Scout reaches back a century. In the Girvin family, this is a potent tradition. All of the Girvin brothers are Eagles. And the tradition of scouting runs passionately deep in our...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jul 10, 2012
The Focus of Watch Fullness, Studying the Terrain Around You. I was hiking and, to every horizon line, path, water-lined and sanded beach and I studied the wind, the insects’ movement, the course of birds, the turning light and colour of green-cast tree-light....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Jul 3, 2012
Logos, fonts, custom alphabets and design strategies: from one sheet to main titles WORKING AS A DESIGNER IN THE THEATRICAL BRANDING Design / Strategy market, the “instinctually” founded process is pebbled with uncertainty and the foibles of a largely...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Jun 27, 2012
I was talking to a girl. As I listened — she told me a story, it was about her life. And I told an other — a story, about her story, to another. And then another, that came from the one story, became another story. I was talking to a girl. As I listened...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Scent | Jun 25, 2012
Trending scent strategies | the track to knowledgethe vocabulary of fragrances. Do you really know what you smell? I was in the subway, METRONYC with a colleague from GIRVIN | NYC — and, coming down to the running tracks, he says — “whoa, that smell...
