Girvin | Strategic Branding and Design lives, works and plays across a rich tapestry of creative projects. GIRVIN named and created the Yogurt Culture Company — a wholly new farm to city fresh yogurt restaurant in NYC on Park Avenue, just south of Grand Central Station. Tim Girvin personally designed the original logo for Kettle Brand — in 1978, a small company that started from the back of a truck and is now a global enterprise. You’ve also seen Girvin’s work on the big screen. He designed the logos for Academy Award-winning films such as Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” and global blockbusters like “The Matrix.”
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Known for his exemplary commercial portfolio, Girvin designs many things. In his studio, he has designed tables crafted from industrially-reclaimed timber, long horizontal sheaths of wood showing the true grain, knots and separation of grain in the wood. Along the smooth grain, there is the pattern and imagery of a profound level of thinking. Giant symbolic brushstrokes render concepts of [circle] for holism, [the whorl] for...
Tim Girvin is well known for being an award-winning American designer, but his talent takes many shapes and forms. Calligrapher, illustrator, writer, public speaker and photographer, these professional titles do little to capture the essence of a man who has become legendary. Oft-considered to be a designer’s designer, other designers revere him to the extent that some imitate him—...
Girvin has always been held in awe by many of his colleagues and peers. Years ago, when I was having lunch with the owner of a major ad agency, Girvin’s name came up in conversation. He said, “Girvin really is who he says he is. He is a different thinker and an extraordinary talent.”
Despite Girvin’s success, he carries himself with a certain humility. He knows shopkeepers, restaurant owners and waiters by first name and is...
The Seattle office of GIRVIN maintains and grows a multi-thousand volume collection of books on design. There is a wide range of reference works that has taken multiple decades to collect. There are rare books, ranging from signed and numbered limited edition books, to rare books that are centuries old. A hand-illuminated Quran reside beside an ancient cuneiform ceramic cone from ancient Mesopotamia, a first century Greek tutelary epigraph...
