by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jul 24, 2019
BRAND EMOTIONALISM V | SOUL BRANDS: The Quest For Heart And Holistic Experience In the deepest heart of brands: what lies within? Part V Brand and soul, some offer a key question: “what the..?” Finding the soul of the brand is something that many might immediately...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jul 17, 2019
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | PART FOUR Exploring the emotionality of strategy, the humanity of brand, untethered creativity and the tactics of design management. EXAMINING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE We’ve got history in the balance between the concept of the...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jul 10, 2019
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part Three Building the strategies for brand engagement thinking, creative intelligence workshops and tactical layouts for innovation sessions. Working on a project for the planning of a market design program for an emerging...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Jul 1, 2019
LAYERING MESSAGES AND IMAGERY IN BRAND WORKSHOPPING. THE CARTOGRAPHY OF BRANDSCAPE (Digital Brush work) MAPPING BRAND THINKING | Part two THE DOODLING OF IDEAS, PATHWAYS OF EXPLORATION SCRIBBLED, BRAND MAPPING AND DOCUMENTATION: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 5, 2019
THE WHORL OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS. A brand is like a spiral—could be a channel, could be the opening of a drain, could be a spigot pouring forth—but in one way or another—it’s a channel: outflow, inflow. Its success will be the fluency of its convergence—the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 9, 2019
THE STRATEGY OF EXCAVATION, BRAND ARCHÆOLOGY AND JOURNAL WORK CREATIVE MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF BRAND FUTURITY THERE’S WHERE YOU ARE. WHERE YOU’VE BEEN. AND WHERE YOU’D LIKE TO BE. HOW COULD YOU GET THERE— IGNITING THE FUTURE? WHEN WE’RE STUDYING A CHALLENGE,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Apr 24, 2019
GO DEEP IN THE QUEST[ION] ––––––––––––––– IN THE ADVENTURING FOR THE DEEPER INSIGHT: WHAT IS BEHIND, WHAT’S BENEATH? WHAT’S BELOW THE EASILY SEEN THREAD OF AN IDEA? WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING—HOW ARE YOU LOOKING? IN THE LEGACY OF EXPLORATION, LOOKING FOR INSIGHTS,...
by GIRVIN | Brands, Motion Pictures | Mar 22, 2019
March 24th marks the 416th anniversary of Elizabeth I of England’s death. Because of this, we thought it would be an opportune time to look back on how we researched and developed the title design for Mary Queen of Scots. When working on film branding, we believe it’s...
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Mar 6, 2019
IN THE QUEST OF TRAVELING THE WORLD: EXPLORING SPELLS, BINDING AND BRAND MAGIC In an adventure of working around the world, one sees things differently in the layering and context of place. Different cultures approach brands in varying ways—to each, their own way of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2019
DESIGNING PLACES: EXPLORING THE DEEP METAPHORS, SYMBOLS AND ARCHETYPES IN PLACES MADE RETHINKING EXPERIENCE STRATEGY In the journey of designing guest enchantment pathways, customer experience procession, there is one path to consider—step by step, what is the...
