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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers | Aug 16, 2023
It’s Not So Much About What’s There, or What’s Not There—It’s the Intention of the Movement; the Imprint That it Makes. And What the Viewer Holds Forever. As designers, we think about the statement of our design solutions—and the impact and memorability of the work.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Retail | Aug 3, 2023
The Patterning of a Place, Storytelling Symbols in Space Culturally, any explorer of the world’s architecture will sense and see symbolic dimensions expressed in how places are designed—a cathedral would be an obvious journey-making in symbolic expressions. It might... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 18, 2022
IN EVERY ENCOUNTER THERE IS THE LOOK—THE APPEARANCE— OF WHAT’S ON THE SURFACE. AND THEN THERE’S: WHAT’S UNDERNEATH, THE BEHIND, THE SHADOW—THE DEEPER GLANCE. S O M E T H I N G M O R E Even in the digital space, there’s a story above, there’s a story below, there is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Trends | Feb 10, 2022
MEDITATIONS ON REMOTE WORK. THE SEARCH FOR MEANINGFUL BEAUTY, THE QUEST FOR ACTIVE FOCUS IN ATTENTION AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE STRATEGY OF WORKING IN REMOTE LOCATIONS—SO-CALLED: WORKING SOMEPLACE YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. An old scrap of handmade paper, hanging in a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 7, 2024
Seeing stories in Brands, Design and Gesture. As a leader of workshops, and team-related branding sessions, I tend to watch my teams very carefully. My last blog spoke to listening, and appreciative observation— how to study the evidences of emotion in the gestures of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Nov 2, 2020
CONTEMPLATIVE OF HIS PASSAGE, A ROBUST 90 YEARS, THE SEAN CONNERY BOND LEGACY IS A PROFOUND OPENING CASTING: LAUNCH AN UNFORGETTABLE NOTCH IN THIS IAN FLEMING STORYTELLING DEPICTION. AND STYLISTICALLY, ONE THAT REMAINED IN PLAY FOREVER. Suavely cool, sardonically... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2020
The Ecology of the Forest as an allegory for community, audiences and customers. We spend a lot of time studying people—watching them, listening to them and studying them in use contexts wrapped around brands. We look at how people use things, bring brands into their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 13, 2019
A CLOUD OF MINDS, CROWDSOURCING IDEAS, INNOVATIONS AND DIRECTION: WHERE COULD YOU GO? AND HOW COULD YOU GET THERE? CUMULARITY AND MUSICALITY: THE THUNDERSTORM OF MINDS, A MUSICAL WHORLING TOWARDS THE NEW: NIMBUS NIMBLE, TORNADO TURNTABLE, STRATOS STRATEGY: I’ve... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2018
THE DESIGN VOCABULARY: VISUALIZATION, MESSAGING AND THE PATTERNING OF IDEAS, MARKS AND MEANING. I had a chance to present, at the behest of the esteemed Mark Anderson a string of ideas at the Strategic News Service presentation of FiRe at the Stein Ericksen Lodge in... Read More