Search results for: experience design place making
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | May 13, 2014
The Context of Holistic Branding, Experience Design and the Person Earlier, in NYC, I was talking to an Aikido master about sensation — and the sphere of awareness. It might be suggested that Aikido — a “way of ki,” is more about finding the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Jun 11, 2013
Understanding Experiencer Journey Working with Nabisco I studied the sequencing of packaging arrangements on shelf, of baked goods. What we looked at what a kind of rolling circle around the aisle walker, looking at how a person traverses a place that represents a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 26, 2012
Powerful ideas, invention and brand re-alignments, newly imagined. I’m looking for surprise, beauty, spectacle — designing it, looking at it, seeing it, extending that story — the telling of it. To tell anything, there has to be another — the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 13, 2013
THE DELICACY OF SOUND, VOICING THE STORY, AN UNKNOWN TELLING — PURE SOUND. The most powerful point of sensuality, will be about love, and the intimacy of connection — the closer you are to feeling, the more intimate the power of that sharing. I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 21, 2016
The Quest for Soulful Places As a designer, I find that the work on converting spaces to more meaningful places, which more often than not has to do with the very journey of what soul is supposed to be. Soul is a ancient seed sound — a voicing — for sea, and the point... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Jan 25, 2010
Art on streetscape | holding construction and the impending quietude in the wait for financing Still, most people are waiting for financing; that is, the banks, while mostly funded back in government bailouts, repaid in context, other major projects are sitting and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Aug 5, 2020
STRATEGIES OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, JOURNEY AND RETAIL PLACEMAKING. Everything’s boarded up, downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill. As Seattleites, we protest. We don’t like something, we will let it be known. Things do get out of hand—by some, not the others. There are,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 9, 2009
Amazon, the mind, cloud consciousness and the making of place. Earlier in my life, I was under training, in languages (German, at the time), with Thomas Bunnell, SJ. I actually went there, with him, to a monastic seminary — to practice and study the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Incubation, Trends | Jan 31, 2011
The designed space of innovation, design labs, incubation works and architectural evolution. Over time, working around the world and linking into innovation environments, the idea of designing a working laboratory for innovation is something that ranges from raw... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands, Scent | Oct 11, 2010
Bertrand Duchaufour at Madison Avenue L’Artisan (photo Tim Girvin) Exploring the context of experience and the interpretation of place — in scent. It’s interesting, the idea of thinking about working in smell and place — exploring the... Read More