Search results for: brand-instinct
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2024
The world of brand extends to crime-fighting. In our history, we’ve consulted for various police agencies, patrol and security groups, building brands around protection of assets, people and their communities. It takes a particularly assertive sense of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Luxury, Places, Retail | Feb 7, 2022
HERITAGE BRAND DESIGN AND SYSTEMIC PATTERNING More than four and a half decades ago, 1976, I pitched the idea of integrative branding to the Creative Director at Nordstrom, Dan Holland, and I presented again—this same thematic strategy, later to Claudia Milne, then... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Storytelling | Sep 25, 2019
WHEN YOU’RE FAR OUT AT SEA, SEE THE WAVES, SENSE THE RIP, IT’S TIME TO RIDE THE FAR HORIZON OF THE RIPPLING SWELL. Image above: Dawn A. Clark When you’re out there, far out there, watching the impending swell, there’s the rising curl of fear, awe and wonder,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | May 24, 2018
I AM WALKING THE FOREST, EXPLORING THE DEEPER PLACE OF ARBOREALITY; THESE TREE TAPESTRIES ARE LONG-MADE, OLDER GROVES, THE ONES THAT HAVE DARKER PLACES ADMINISTERED BY THE OLDER AND BIGGER TREES. You might ask, what is the symbolism of the tree in the context of what... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 26, 2024
It happens to the best of us—there’s a confident gait, the gallant stride, a bold sprint and then: there’s a stumble. It rumbles in the background—all the time—the risk of misstep. Personally, I contemplate my own faltering—and there have been many. Moves that I... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts | Jun 18, 2025
Developing Hand-crafted Symbols as Deep Metaphors During my college years, I studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds— the maestro of the calligraphic arts that inflamed Steve Jobs, during Steve’s limited foray at Reed College. And a core precept—this would be the I +... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 6, 2010
Drawn from the heart: simple design prototypes from the 30s: design strategy and clarity of intention The heart of creative: drawing, sketching, roughs, comprehensives made by hand, brush and simplistic inspiration. A friend of mine in Santa Monica, composer Stuart... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures | Jun 13, 2011
Palaeography, design, historical context and the imagination Theatrical identity design We didn’t work on the movie Thor. In about twenty years of working for Paramount Studios and Warner Brothers, in particular, we’ve worked on literally hundreds of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | Jan 16, 2025
Everyone has a powerful connection to their mothers. My mother, Lila Lee Shaw Girvin died this past week. And it called into contemplation all of the things that one thinks about in death—of anyone near. You’re thinking, “they were here, now they’re gone.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Oct 11, 2024
I was listening to a podcast by David Duchovny the proverbial Fox Mulder of the X-files–on failure. As he notes in his overview—a summary of his podcast— “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” Duchovny recites to WPR’s host... Read More
