by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 29, 2011
RADIATION Z O N E D What of radiant ideas? What of ideas so powerful they spread round the world? What of innovations that embody the radiation of human imagination and commitment — a passion drive to emerge to new platforms of contribution? We’ve been...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Retail, Storytelling | Aug 25, 2011
Leadership passion — the commitment of crazy brand love in powering the direction of business There are plenty of stories about CEOs that are so crazy in love with the premise of their work that they simply can’t disconnect from the evolving contribution...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 22, 2011
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 crossroads of creativity and intelligence, as...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Storytelling | Aug 9, 2011
The Naming of Things THE MYSTICAL ROOTS OF THE GATHERING OF NAMES. An ancient principle of voice struggles in the subjective empowerment of words — as vessels for improvised ideas — and the named premise of ideals. I’ve written in the past about the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Trends | Aug 4, 2011
Studying the nature of surveillance | the lookout, the sentinel, the scout (and the brand). S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the shifting world, there is what is flowing out — the push; and what is flowing in — the pull. The...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Aug 1, 2011
L E A D E R S H I P M A G N E T I S M In the modeling of a group of people, there is invariably a “power pole.” Working with people, I look for that energized place of energy. Who’s there? In the clustering of people, there is the layering of the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jul 25, 2011
Workers at a fake Apple store with an iPad tablet in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Friday. Wong Campion / Reuters The Soul of the Brand Material In the emerging wild east of China, the idea of counterfeiting continues as the savaging of anything and everything...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Jul 21, 2011
The context of designing places that are human, places that are not. In the principles of fast casual food / beverage design, a mid-priced, faster service experience proposition, the notion of the holistic character of guest presence has to do with a layering of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Jul 19, 2011
Sometimes, in our attempts to process and organize, we forget the beauty of the chaotic milieu — where things aren’t really as nicely laid out as we might have imagined. Projects seem to drift off into a differing continuum — there are challenges in...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures | Jul 1, 2011
Exploring the legacy of a typographic design, embedded in the minds of millions. The above image, from Tintin, comes from the current site / launch of Spielberg and Jackson’s pre-launch strategy of the storytelling of Tintin. Working with Nancy Goliger, former...
