Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Artists | Jun 29, 2008
My first exposure to David Byrne was in college, in the 70s. How I relate to him is his ineffable curiosity. Frankly, since the 80s, I’ve probably only picked up a couple of his CDs, since that time. But it’s the infectious exploration that’s... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Designers, Scent, Storytelling | May 14, 2008
Brand experience is always about gathering content and pointing — even in synaesthetic context — to all of them. The notion of synaesthesia is about sensations crossing modality, from one sense to another. This concept of merging sentience speaks to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Luxury, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 5, 2008
The power of two, of community, relationships in development — and the world of fragrance. I’ve written about scent — working in that brandspace, contemplating the spirit of fragrance in the worlds of commerce, personality, travel, integrated... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 30, 2008
Buzzing, twittering, twitching: Exploring community development in online new media launches. When I was at TED | Aspen, last month, I found myself in a world of people — my age and younger, late 30s, 40s, 50s — who were communicating with each other in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Mar 27, 2008
Girvin worked on the identity design for a new Peirce | Paramount Studios + MTV film. Kimberly Peirce is remarkably patient. It’s been nearly 10 years since her last effort, “Boys Don’t Cry”, shown here, in the center, with her stars, Chloë... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Mar 8, 2008
The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Paula Rees. She’s a placemaker. Her... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Retail | Feb 25, 2008
I was thinking about things floating, ideas that are on one level, then another. And that idea of the interconnection of the idea on the surface, and the idea beneath. “The details are not details. They make the product.” So says, Charles Eames. So you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Feb 22, 2008
Margaret Swart, a friend from long back, asked for me to do something that one might think of as odd. Unusual. That is, to create a hand-lettered cover for one of the top rated technology magazines there is: Wired. A magazine that uses a hand drawn script for the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Luxury | Feb 4, 2008
Tony Cenicola | The New York Times There are levels of the luxury experience. And in a way, it’s about what our personal experience of what the sense of luxury might be. But the expression of the luxuriant could be many things. Tom Ford, himself, defines the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Feb 2, 2008
The signature is a marking, a signing, that links the gesture of the hand, the fingertips, the wrist, the arm to the mind. It’s a kind of drawing of the mind — your signature is the reflection of your intelligence. That is, I suppose, the character of... Read More
