by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0 | Dec 31, 2009
$12 Billion gone and running. What next, for Tiger Woods? “He is something supernatural.” – Tom Watson I’ve been fascinated by the dynamics of leadership. What happens in the center, emanates. The longest shadow falls from the top....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Storytelling | Dec 30, 2009
The code of the brand, designing experiences with layers of brand expression — if you’re there, do you know that you are? In working on dozens of retail design programs for more than three decades of experience, or in other environments where the context...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 27, 2009
GIRVIN: the early discovery of calligraphy and typographic design: stories, differentiation, craft and beauty. I had an early experience, a blessing, as a designer, working in NYC for the grand luminaries of design. Late 70s. What that meant was courage, perhaps more...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 21, 2009
Exploring the creation of brands > innovations strategy The initiation of my relationship with many brands has come on the locus of change. Fast change, in branding. Working with P&G, Nintendo and Nabisco started with innovation and acceleration programs. It...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Trends | Dec 20, 2009
I CAN RECALL THAT IDEA, LAUNCHING, THE FIRST REVELATION OF VICE, THE MAGAZINE. A decade + back. It was my eldest daughter that discovered it, in a book shop — she said: “Dad, here’s something, you’d probably like this.” And it’s not...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers | Dec 15, 2009
The savoring of acceleration — fast brand storytelling. Being one who is in the business of acceleration — the development of conceptions that speed, to market, into community, audiences, guest relationships, client spaces and beyond, the idea of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Dec 13, 2009
Brand scent, experience design, attention and distraction. The Hollister Retail Blast | Soho, NYC. I am perpetually curious about the scent of place. Walking into any environment, I find myself scenting it — then calculating what layers of fragrance might I be...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Trends | Dec 3, 2009
Examining the principle of integrated marketing, experience design, and the semblance of the sentient. I’d start with this poetic assemblage. Memories reach back. They are the string from the now, to the then. They link where we are, what we are, to what...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 1, 2009
The pursuit of comfort: contentment during uncomfortable times Working on the brand revolution of Cinnabon, our research focused on finding what was missing, in the heart of the brand, retail experience and relationship management. Actually, there wasn’t any....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 29, 2009
Engaging leadership brand champions: studying the patterning of innovation, the struggle of the paradigm and the modeling of breaking brands free. As a business person, a planner, and a student of enterprise internationally, working on the edge of innovation,...
