Search results for: experience design place making
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Dec 30, 2013
Remembering who the ultimate client is HUMANKIND DESIGN I was talking to a client about the strategy of his brand — mostly operations, organizational planning and construction — and I asked him, “what about the people, what’s their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 28, 2017
CONCEPTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS OF INTIMACY: BRAND LOVE-MAKING? What’s the path for engagement? How does a brand move from enchantment, to engagement, to the interlacing of embracement? What is the way that people hold on to the storytelling of a brand in a manner that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Nov 6, 2015
I’m not big on knives, except as objects of art. And magic. Earlier, I’d worked on a set of knives as handmade craft objects, of dense detail, material and alchemical manufacture. Then, working in Java, I learned about kris. Or as some spell it, the keris. My... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 10, 2015
Contexts of Nomenclature and Meaning. According to the Greeks, “the etymon is the name of the true thing.” Etymos=true. What that means is that a name is a deep name, and that the truth would be told. Etymon — comes from the Greek for “truth” — and powerful names for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 11, 2014
The Mothering of The Mother In my journey, I’ve studied the creative molding process as a man driven and bidden by the magicspell of making. In college, the 70s, I read Erich Neumann’s monumental undertaking “The Great Mother” which was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 22, 2020
IN THE LAST BLOG, WE TALKED ABOUT IDENTITY AS A PURSUIT OF THE MANAGEMENT OF COHERED SAMENESS—THAT EVERY ATTRIBUTE OF A BRAND IS REFLECTIVE OF A CORE PREMISE: EVERYTHING TILTS BACK, POINTS TO CENTER, LEANS TOWARD A KEY PROMISE, VALUE AND ATTRIBUTION OF DESIGN... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Trends | Aug 28, 2015
Tim Girvin and Jack Larsen, at his Park Avenue Studio A fashion archetype, reconsidered. It’s good to hear that the bow tie is coming back. Somewhere around ten years back I’d moved past that detail — the suit, the oxford shirt, the bow tie. That was a legacy fashion... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 17, 2015
The Nature of Interlinking, Knotmaking, Braiding and the Entwinement of Storytelling. As a journeyer in brand, and the fire making of its fluency in community, I find myself in the study of the under-layments of how it works. As noted long back, it’s a storytelling... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent | Jul 18, 2008
The Carthusian Monastery, Capri, Italia I’m looking at time, and the heart of things — brands and story, discovery and myth, truth and relationships. There are brands that are fresh — closely originated in recent time — a story that speaks to... Read More
