by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Retail | Mar 20, 2009
I found this story, and thought I’d post it. It’s from a couple of years ago, but it is still layered with details about how I see this store. I offer this grouping of images, shot at Apple’s new store in NYC on 5th and Central Park South, as a kind...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2009
The concept of the personal brand, in place – what makes a city’s identity? Spending time traveling, as I have now, for the last three weeks straight, I’m now coming to the positioning of questioning my own identity, in the whirring of place. Where...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Mar 3, 2009
A presentation in London | Professional Spa Conference + Beauty Summit. I’ve been thinking about the concept of wellness shared — and the communing offering of spa well-making and health generation. Generation, is that the right word — to generate...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Scent, Storytelling | Mar 1, 2009
Form language and brandstory: Coco Chanel There are living icons, human brands, and there are others, that create that character after their passing. Gabrielle Chanel is someone that I should write about, considering the concept of the human brand. But not now. What...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Interior Design, Places | Feb 24, 2009
I had a meeting, Sunday night, with Agnelo Fernandes from Canyon Ranch. Nice person. Nice encounter. And good potentials, I believe, to continue that track. Will explore, for more. Here are a sampling of reduced (number of) images, from that tour and shoot. Very...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Feb 12, 2009
Thinking about how things are seen, scene… scene, this — ? the seen, the seeing, the scene? right? Visualizing Twitter as Barack Obama Became the 44th President tableau, go. I was studying this modeling, and collided with, again, Tableau. When I go back,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People | Feb 9, 2009
I’ve written about my connection with Steve Jobs several times. Working with him at Apple. Working with him at Next. Working with him at Apple. And my link to him is about looking for ways to tell his story in the context of his brilliant evocation of design and...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General | Feb 2, 2009
Exploring spirit and transition | the legacy of the Human Brand in passage Several years ago, Chie Masuyama and I were in Japan together, exploring brand development in that market, as well as meeting and presenting with Pierre Dinand, my partner in an alliance for...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Luxury, Storytelling | Feb 1, 2009
A Study of Brand, Truth and Storytelling in Community As a brand consultant and designer, I’ve been working internationally for 35 years in finding the heart of brands. Brands, in a way, that have heart, have an especial place in my practice. Because brands that...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Luxury, Places | Jan 26, 2009
Exploring the concept of wellness in experience design and environmental graphics. Two years ago, we began working on the development of the Canyon Ranch Living® | Miami concept in Miami Beach, Florida. It’s open, as of a couple of weeks ago. To their position,...
