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by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands | Nov 5, 2012
The design strategy of simplification A friend, Stuart Balcomb, a musician and composer in Venice, California, reminded me of something, to design — and Steve Jobs. I worked as a consultant to Apple, at the behest of Steve Jobs in the late 70s, early 80s. I met... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Sep 21, 2012
The heart and soul of Crows, People, Cityscape and Poetry: Tokyo Waka | A film KRISTINE SAMUELSON + JOHN HAPTAS image from Waka The Kaw-Call of the Crow | Tokyo. Who couldn’t forget this call? Tokyo CROWCALL: Wakaaaa! The character of Waka might relate more to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Places, Retail | Aug 23, 2012
Marvin Traub and Bloomingdale’s Girvin’s 1985 2-sided shopping bag for Bloomingdale’s The height of retail branding | Girvin, John Jay, the 1980’s. Campaign Theme Design as a Form of Integrated Retail Experience THE DEATH OF MARVIN TRAUB | 22... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 20, 2012
Rethinking rethinking — and the cycle of innovation — finding wowness. What is life but a string of refreshments — a discovering: a way of seeing, momentarily — a challenge, a cast-out idea, a gesture to newness, wowness as the surprised state... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General | Mar 10, 2012
the roots of making, by hand — Apple computer image above, tweet from HuffPst. In the beginnings, at Apple 70s, working for Steve, his driving curiosity was always about how to take the hand, into the computer — and mix/improve the outcomes — for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Feb 3, 2012
Doing creative speculative work — a pitch that costs nothing for the client — and everything for the creative team. I was in an argument with the team at Toyota — for what seems like months; lots of errors, miscommunications, challenges and failures... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jan 5, 2012
I was thinking about the right ideas, that come from the tumble of those that try, but fail. Those that stumble, and find. These that jumble and arrive at the new. There is tumble, stumble, jumble — and topple. They’re interrelated. Long back, working with... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 23, 2011
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: 2012? In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be a recurrent theme. We are compelled — in the trade of Girvin — to explore the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Motion Pictures | Dec 18, 2011
Customized, illustrative typographic design for motion picture titling design. First off, to clarify, we didn’t work on Ghost Protocol, out today — but seeing the opening campaign, as well as the film launch in Dubai (and working there reminded me of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 23, 2011
Being a teacher, there’s the line in the sand — the pass: it’s okay; the fail: it’s not. It is the yes, the no — it’s alright; it’s not. Being a strategist, a designer, a writer, plying the work of creative intelligence... Read More
