Search results for: type design
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Places | Mar 23, 2009
Exploring the concept of the place, made in the mystery of building, the poetry of the world around it. I’ve been looking at, and exploring building design for decades. And, being in the neighborhood of architects, also for decades, I’ve learned to look at... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures | May 13, 2008
Exploring brand in context — from the comical imagination to the full screen. Storyboarding: There’s been a lot of discussion about the movement in legacy from comical development to full screen adaptation. There are some symbolic moves in that grouping of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Dec 14, 2007
I’d worked for Yves Saint Laurent to explore the story in the context or retail design and brand strategy a year ago — working under the leadership of YSL President Laura Lendrum and her EVP | Retail Design, Claudia Cividino. The work was a gathering, a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General, Luxury | Oct 14, 2007
Perhaps you know the classic rendition of “A Pattern Language”? The premise of this fine theoretical explication by Christopher Alexander is that there are a series of movements, patterns, that relate to how space, volume and presence can be reflected in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands | Sep 6, 2007
————————- NOTES ON: Marc Jacobs The key to influence is the street. Marc’s work is based on his ascent — and that’s telling. It tells the tales of his visioning, drawn from experience starting from the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | May 28, 2007
Randall Stross… Greetings! Nice, your work: Sunday | NYTimes | Bright ideas! | Digital Domain 5.27.07 (Randall Stross) I found your observations on Apple Store, as carefully and clinically precise in their analyses as they could hope to be, I suppose, to be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Places | Aug 15, 2024
Feeling in the realm of design thinking, sensation and brand. I took some old Italian handmade paper, folded it, tore it with a bone folder, punched a hole in the head of the strip, and strung red binding thread into the opening and hung it in the trees, amidst the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 5, 2024
Deep perceptions, brand metaphors and the avian sentience. For most of my life, I’ve been a student of the birds. I admire them from the perspective of their calligraphic flight, fluttering and drifting, flourishing in elegant strokes in the air. I’ve cut them in... Read More
