Search results for: experience design place making
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Storytelling | May 9, 2009
Storytelling in retail design As designers, there’s a patterning to be explored, something to be seen, sensed, experienced in the making of place and the character of brand, in story — and the telling of retail. Girvin card deck, obverse puzzle assembly by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Sep 30, 2020
When you make a place, what gives it soul? Authenticity, material utility, legacy of use. Humanity in play, ingenuity of unexpected applications. Soulfulness wouldn’t support a clinical cleanliness or synthetic manufacture, soul— by its very etymology—refers to sea,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 15, 2020
THE MEDITATION ON PROCESSION | BRAND STORYTELLING AND *EXPERIENTIALITY How do you listen to a story? How does that work—the yarn drawn and you being woven into the tapestry of tale. We think like that—the twice-told telling, that which is unforgettable. The power in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | Oct 21, 2016
IN THE JOURNEY OF TIME,WELL-KEPT AND STUDIED, STILL: THERE IS SOMETHING MORE TO THE MEMORY OF PLACE-MAKING — THE PLACES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN, WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND TOUCHED, TASTED AND HEARD — AND STILL, WHAT HOLDS THE HEART MOST IS THE SENSE OF SCENT — WHAT FRAGRANCE... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Apr 12, 2013
Star Trek Two Working in the motion picture business, as a designer for theatrical advertising, the potential of working comes from making introductions, reaching out: connecting. It’s always a journey, the explorations, the examinations, the labyrinths of time,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 18, 2009
The Duke Study on brand, imagination and the impression of self. It’s been pointed out that seeing Apple’s cool logo makes you feel more creative and smarter. And it’s not only about that — how you feel — but how you act. That’s an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Jul 4, 2009
The revelation of Starbucks retail design prototype two. I have a funny relationship with Starbucks. I’ve really never worked with them, yet I have these links to the creative leadership that allow for an intriguing consciousness about what lies at the heart of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts | Nov 6, 2024
The leap of adventure in the movement of brands, spirit, soul and destinations— the risk to get out there, go further, get farther. In a recent set of GIRVIN brand soul summits, brandquest® workshops [how we work to get somewhere new as a team-based collaborative... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Places | Jan 28, 2013
There is a place, in a place, in a story in a story, a person in a person. And you could photograph that, the layering of these contents. Watch this, for more: http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/12/11?ecid=ema1993&CID I was thinking about the deeper, nascent power... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 16, 2016
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 have special power,... Read More