Search results for: experience design place making
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Apr 5, 2016
SYMBOLIC EMBLEMS FOR INTERIORS: DESIGNING TALISMANS FOR A PLACE The Journey of Design, Place-making and Creative Environments: Archetypal Signage and Magical Badges As any designer knows, to brand and experience design, there is a link between storytelling and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Places | Aug 27, 2012
Graphical thinking in the Visioning of Spatial Ideas and Place-making In the beginning for me, it was Peter Saville, London, that changed my point of view about the power of a graphical treatment to fully render ideas. Hear Peter, here. WIELDING AND SPEAKING A BROAD... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail | Sep 5, 2009
Exploring Retail Conceptions as an Experiment These days, everything should be an experiment; things are moving too quickly for us not to adopt a laboratory approach to exploration, learning and strategic advancement. All of us have been to Colette, Paris, examining... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 1, 2021
DESIGN AND RISK EVERY DESIGN REACH IS A RISK, IT TAKES COURAGE TO ADVANCE FROM ASKING QUESTIONS AND LISTENING TO OFFERING SOLUTIONS. THE GAUNTLET THROWN TO THE WORK IS THAT—IN ANY JOURNEY—THERE IS RISK. You’re presuming that you—brand person, design researcher,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2018
THE STRATEGY OF DESIGNING MOTION PICTURE BRANDING. THERE’S A PATTERN LANGUAGE, WHICH IS SENSUALLY INTERMINGLED. IT IS DESIGN, PLACE-MAKING, CHARACTERIZATIONS, CINEMATIC STYLE, SOUND DESIGN, MUSIC. ALL ARE PART OF THE TELLING. To that telling: how is it that the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Trends | Nov 19, 2010
Harry Potter 7 (Warner Brothers) Round glasses, hipness and the legacy of a design theory from the Middle Ages. Image from New York Carver Today’s the day that the ending begins for Harry Potter. And if you’re one that’s studied this phenomenon from... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 8, 2010
Exploring the journal, the working process and the act of creative development Guillermo Del Toro | Pan’s Labyrinth I’ve written and spoken publicly in the past about the concept of the journal — the annotated sketchbook — as a place of making... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Oct 3, 2018
ALPHABET DESIGN VISIONING AS THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF BRAND IDENTITY As a brand designer, you’re thinking—“where is this business going?” “What’s the point, who cares, what’s it about—how’s it going to work?” And then, after these opening queries—that project work comes... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | May 2, 2018
THE DESIGN OF TALISMANS, AMULETS AND THE PORTALS OF PERCEPTION What if there was an ancient theory about the nature of marking, that the making of marks had a powerful transformative character — a mark is a perceptual portal? One stroke, an idea is born, an energy... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 27, 2016
The Exploration of Personal Journey and Ritualizing Experience Getting to the soul of things. What is a thing? I’ve wondered about that. A thing. T H I N G O.E. Ãlthing “meeting, assembly,” later “entity, being, matter” (subject of deliberation in an assembly), also... Read More
