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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2014
Defining locality and brand presence What is on the surface and lies beneath? I was walking in the dark — that, a metaphor unto itself — and looking on the street, with the light filtering and flickering in the wind-riven trees, casting quivering shadows... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Jul 16, 2013
In the Journey, who is your companion? Who is your guardian, your guide, your icon, your shepherding guide? Me? Raven and crow, telling. We’ve noted in an earlier blog study, that we’ve been involved in the Lone Ranger, as designers, in the past —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 3, 2013
And the implications to brand, strategy and the target It’s been noted that, with the avid consumption and viewership of everything Jennifer Lawrence, the “Hunger Games” and Jeremy Renner’s rendering of “The Avengers” Hawkeye as a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Feb 13, 2013
Look, listen, study — the poetry of the birds I am watching the birds, and listening to their calls. More so, I’m watching how they watch. Normally, that’s something that I do with people — watching how they look at things. How do people see?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Oct 3, 2012
The Interspace: the new MySpace UI Wide Open — Inner Space — Interface It’s interesting to study the migrations of MySpace, in the challenges of their past failing and flailing attempts to maintain a respectable share of the social online... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Nov 7, 2012
Rethinking how ideas are shared The explanation of ideals, mapped in a navigation of content. “Where am I going, how will I get there — being lost, I don’t “get where I am” — “having a map, with information, I have a map, a... 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 | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 31, 2011
And the Mystery as to Their Drawn Quarters Go back to a hidden Girvin site, long retired, here, to find the story of many in the drawing of the alphabet. In thinking about the mind as a room — the alphabet is right there, in the entwinement of story and legend... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Trends | May 10, 2010
Ben Affleck | Fight Hunger Feed America Feeding America as the warmest bridge to marketing resonance Working on the mission of supporting cause marketing for humanitarian brands presumes commitment — it starts with the extraordinary commitment of the founders,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People | Feb 9, 2009
I’ve written about my connection with Steve Jobs several times. Working with him at Apple. Working with him at Next. Working with him at Apple. And my link to him is about looking for ways to tell his story in the context of his brilliant evocation of design and... Read More