Search results for: symbolic design
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Sep 25, 2014
There is the sign, which is a way — a tool to explain process and direction, to instruct, to mark, to place: made. The Ace Hotel, Expressed Metal Plate But to the notion of place-making, how that sign is made, gesture or stone, or cut metal, wood can tell a layering... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2014
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 17, 2014
THE JOURNEY FROM MIND TO KEYBOARD AND THE FLUENCY OF THE FIST, IN-HAND, FINGERED — handwritten –– Thought-bound, WORDS, POEMS AND HEARTS DRAWN OUT LARGE. There is more to handwriting than one might expect. We’ve talked about the nature of design and the signature —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Sep 19, 2008
Exploring art in place: context, construct, concept — the brand marketing of Jeff Koons at Versailles. There’s been a far amount of energy being wrapped around the concept of Jeff Koon’s installation at Versailles. Of course, the idea is that the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Places, Storytelling | Sep 18, 2008
Exploring the illusory: branding ghosts and the veil of what is beyond… I’d been fascinated by the concept of the ghost – and the ghostly – for decades, since I was a kid. The magical, the mystical, the mysterious. Actually, my first big book purchase,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 4, 2008
IN THE 70’s. Or — HOW I WENT BACK TO THE ROOTS OF MY BEGINNINGS The 70s. That’s when I started working as a designer. And a lot of the early work is about supporting other agencies. Ad agencies. When I began — when I first started working... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Retail | Jul 20, 2008
Exploring store design — a collaboration between designer Raf Simons and artist Germaine Kruip — and a contrary study in contrast: De Vera. At the corners of Howard & Crosby: NYC. The hyper minimalist white space and laboratorium that has entered the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Scent | Jul 6, 2008
Studying the world of Brian Eno: scent, strategy, music and environment in experience design and contemplation. Image Copyright, Apple Computer, Inc., © 2008, all rights reserved. “Humans are capable of a unique trick: creating realities by first imagining them,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jan 23, 2014
You smell. Where you go, where you’ve been, what you remember is what holds you. You have a scent, whether you’re wearing a perfume or not. And you’ve smelled things, places you’ve been, things you’ve remembered. What were they? The point... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jan 16, 2014
THE PERFUME THAT FOLLOWS YOU. As you’re walking the street, a hallway, a waft of scent flows by. Multiple “perfumes of place” drift — if you’re open, you’re scenting them. As well, you’re scenting — the fragrance of you,... Read More
