Search results for: place making
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | May 20, 2011
The cartography of brandfire: the story of highest road, the path of the middle story told, and the cumulus of the multiple tales — the grounding I’d offer a theory of the narrative cloud — the stories that surround the power of an enterprise... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 21, 2010
All Saints Spitalfields | Soho (video from allsaints.com) Brand legacy, place, story, music Ever since All Saints Spitalfields launched in New York City, I was curious about the strategy of design. What’s the story? There is one, a part, here: It starts here,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 10, 2008
Designing The Pearl | Lincoln Square | Bellevue, WA Working with an extremely tight and confined team — I, along with others at Girvin | Seattle, as well as architect Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP, and Robert Norwood, interior designer, began an extraordinary... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 4, 2016
WHICH WAY, GO YOU? THE TURNING PATH THE PATH THAT TURNS, AND TURNS AGAIN. EVERY TIME, BACK TO A PLACE. SNOW IS FALLING. A DEEPER COLD EMERGES. And, in the blinding snow, the sun is so bright that the trees are lit from beneath, it’s a brilliant day. Light filled. Out... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Dec 23, 2015
Rangelands, New Mexico — a long and blank expanse. Then there’s a sign. But it’s presuming something: you know where you’re going. I was transversing high desert rangelands, crossing the state, in a journey to a Monastery out in the desert. On the way there, I saw a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 14, 2015
Girvin, Inc. The Art of Seeing Slower: Examinations of Focus, Attention and Precision — the Slow Time: the art of looking slow. I spent some time, working in, and exploring, Florida — some: Sarasota; some: Miami; some: Plantation. I gave a talk down there, a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Dec 9, 2014
The Use of Writing as a Talismanic Device in Architecture When GIRVIN had an office in NYC, off 26th and Broadway, I used to walk around, looking in on shops and restaurants. I found a little curiosity shop, a dealer in ancient antiquities and I spied some familiar... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 24, 2014
The Outlook, the Lookout and Looking Out And looking in, to Brand Experience Design. As designers, we’re looking in, and looking out. And in our experience with brand management, it’s never, alone, only the looking in — the insights of inner seeing. But too, it’s the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 12, 2008
What good is my community — and what communion is there, for me? I was thinking about the idea of goodness — and the notion of human brand — what are we doing that’s good for people? And in doing our work as strategists, designers, marketers... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 11, 2008
Exploring the journal as journey — and finding the truth in your self. Where are you going, anyway? What do you have to say for your self? Where have you been? What do you care about? And finally, given all that, what does it mean — to you, to others, to... Read More
