by Tim Girvin | Jan 18, 2008 | Diary
Creative action | reaction 1.18.08 How to work? How do I work? How do you work? A conversation in exploring creative development with ModeStudios Robert Bonniol. How is it that sometimes the first idea is the most compelling, as a designer in process? What happens in...
by Tim Girvin | Aug 8, 2008 | Diary
There are 8 stories. 8 ideas. And 8 ways of thinking about things. 8|8|8 1. On this door. There was a door, that was a door to somewhere else. In merely seeing the door, it was a vision to another place — I knew that it went somewhere. I tried to get in. Any...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 3, 2008 | Diary
You just never know. Meditations on exploration and the beauty of being lost, and finding again. As much as you think — “it will go this way” — it just might not. And that way that it does go, it seems, just might be the way that it is meant to...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 6, 2017 | Diary
AS A DESIGNER, A BRAND PERSON — A CREATIVE, A STRATEGIST, A MARKETER — YOU WORK IN THREADING ALIGNMENTS OF CREATIVITY. THAT COMES TO THIS PARALLELISM: THE SYNCHRONY OF HOW YOU THINK, WHAT YOU’VE WORKED ON AND WITH, AS WELL AS WHERE YOU’VE BEEN. IT COMES DOWN TO: WHAT...
by Tim Girvin | Apr 9, 2007 | Diary
3.25.06 Cairn of lavastone | Mt. Merapi | Java obviate \OB-vee-ayt\, transitive verb: To prevent by interception; to anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary. Obviate derives from Latin obviare, “to meet or encounter,” from ob viam, “placed or...
