Articles on PR for People

Wali Collins at Broadway Comedy Club in November

Wali Collins is top headliner at at the Broadway Comedy...

Let Them Eat Plastic

The city of Seattle's ban on plastic bags has been in effect since July 1, 2012, and yet if you walk down any grocery aisle you will encounter the seven basic types of plastic. Every sandwich, vegetable (frozen or fresh), sack of fruit, snack, beverage (pop, water, juice), is...


Trashing McMinnville

We’ve come a long way in the 35 years since a small, local garbage dump called the Riverbend Landfill was allowed to be built near the banks of the South Yamhill River near McMinnville, Ore. Even then people understood that a pit filled with rotting garbage was going to leak out into the ground and water, especially in this semirural area between Portland and Salem, where it rains a reliable seven or eight months a year.

“The...


Jesper Vork | Business Intelligence from Denmark

Danish born Jesper Vork was with Microsoft before becoming a reseller of the Business Intelligence Software from Denmark known as TimeXtender. TimeXtender software is utilized by current users of mainframe computers, such as Fortune 500 companies. “Business Intelligence,” Vork explains, “in my definition, is to help businesses get the information they need and to make the right decisions at the right...


The Girvin Book Collection

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...


Girvin, the Human Brand

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...


Exemplary Girvin Projects

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...


Girvin designs many things

 

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...


American Economy Lures Blanca Mata

Owning a successful business is the dream that brings more than one million people to the United States every year.* Blanca Mata, a Columbian-born American, is one such entrepreneur. She owns the bustling Arepas and More Café in Orlando, Florida. Her restaurant specializes in arepas, filled flatbread sandwiches prominent in Venezuelan cuisine.

With the sound of clinking dishes and cheerful conversation in the background and her...


The Alchemy of Design Thinking

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—...