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by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 3, 2015
Contentment, placemaking and presence. Sometimes I study the context of people in their place. What is it for them? How are they doing? What are they being? That examination works in the context of brands, enterprise and leadership. What is the culture of a place, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Feb 3, 2015
Make something. Use your hands. What’s coming back to me is the realm of the personal — that which is made by a person, from that person, to me. As we’ve moved GIRVIN from downtown Seattle [they’re demolishing our building] to the bottom of West Queen Anne, we’ve all... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Oct 2, 2014
The Journey of Design, Place-making and Creative Environments: Archetypal Signage As any designer knows, to brand and experience design, there is a link between storytelling and sequence. A story has an ingress — a start, a mid-point, a moment of spectacle, of... Read More
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, Places | Aug 14, 2014
Exploring Design | Culture | Place: Iceland and a Graphical History In the journey of anyplace, anywhere, there is a re-counting, as you walk back in time, you count your moments and you gather up your steps, in recounting. And sometimes that striding will take you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers | May 29, 2014
ONE STORY, ONE PERSON It’s interesting how a journey in the life of a designer will take them out to the ends of many roads in their explorations — and those roads might lead back, to the very beginning from which they first found insight into the deeper meaning of... 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 | Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Scent, Storytelling | Mar 13, 2014
A TOUCHING BOOK, CONTEMPLATING 360º IN BRAND AND EXPERIENCE A VISUAL MEDITATION EXPLORING THE JOURNEY; A LEGACY OF THE SENSATE. The human stance of holism. Every journey is a storytelling of sensuality — how you sense and experience the grand sphere of your... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Sep 10, 2013
The Craft of the Hand, the Story, the Image Over time, legends come into play. And if you work the craft, follow your inspirations, you can get to where you want to — the legends, the myths, the stories. But any quest won’t be without travails, challenges,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | Aug 22, 2013
Studying the Face of People and the Buildings that they Make In the past, we’ve talked about the modeling of a brand relationships — the relating [the carrying, the holding and the retelling] of that content, product or story in a manner that it can be... Read More
