by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail | Dec 7, 2011
QUICK SERVE ACCELERATION FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD & BEVERAGE Spending time working and traveling in Europe, it’s invariable that there would be new insights that might be still unseen in stateside venues. As the food experience in quick serve restaurants...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Storytelling | Dec 5, 2011
Could the connectedness of one person to another, the perception of placement be — vibration? What is the vibe of this place? What is the vibe of you? What is the vibe of brand? It’s possible that everything circulates, pulses, surges on the nature of vibe...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Scent | Dec 2, 2011
IN THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, SCENT EVOKED, PERFUME DESIGNED ON THE BREEZE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BOOK, The Shadow of the Wind, written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, there is a story, wrapped a story, hidden in a story — a book, among many books, hidden in a mythical...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 30, 2011
ROUGH TRADE #3 The Perfume of Refuse, Decomposition and Excrement (The third of three essays on unusual scent strategies) In the beginnings of Das Parfum, authored by Patrick Süskind, there is a grouping of expressions that I’d first read in the original German....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 28, 2011
GALLERY VI | THE STATE OF WOWNESS* SOMETIMES, IT’S LESS ABOUT THE MERE “GO THIS WAY” [OR DON’T] AND MORE TO GO ANOTHER WAY, SCENE, SEEN, BEAUTY, TOUCHED. ARTFULLY, THIS PATH. AS A LONG RUNNING DESIGNER OF SHOPFRONTS, SIGNING SYSTEMS, LOOKING AT...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 27, 2011
THE LAYERING OF TEXT | ALPHABET RHYTHMS | GALLERY V THE STATE OF WOWNESS* AS A PERPETUAL STUDENT OF THE ALPHABET, I’M PRONE TO EXAMINE THE MYSTERIES THAT LIE IN ITS STROKING — ONE STROKE, THE FIRST, IS A LINE. ONE LINE, BEGINS THE MARKING OF THE WHO, THE...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Nov 25, 2011
THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IF I’M THINKING ABOUT THE WAY, THE WALKING ROUTE — IT’S LIKE A LONG STRIDE TO THE SOMETHING THAT LIES AT THE END. THERE’S A RHYTHM, A SEQUENCING OF PILLARS THAT MARK THE TIME. STEP BY STEP. LOOKING UP, IT’S STEEP,...
by Tim Girvin | General | Nov 24, 2011
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...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places | Nov 21, 2011
LOOK UP, LOOK OUT | PRINCIPLES OF ABOVENESS | GALLERY III THE STATE OF WOWNESS* IN THE NATURE OF SEEING, THERE ARE DIRECTIONS – THE VECTORING OF PLACE AND SITE, SIGHT SEEN AND UNSEEN. BUT IT DOES COME DOWN TO THE LOOKING – AND THE LISTENING IN THE LOOK. AS...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 17, 2011
ROUGH TRADE #2 The Sense of Scent in the Most Profound and Personal Encounter (The second of two essays on unusual scent strategies) The design of the scents of evocation and emulation, storytelling legendary experiences It’s been said that perfume is the...
