by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 7, 2008
Exploring the principles of art, craft, making and the philosophical vision: Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/ What about Takashi Murakami? “the difference inherent in Japanese and Western artistic practices, and the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Places | Apr 6, 2008
An examination of conceptions of branding environments for storytelling in contextual community. Case study: Oakley. American Hurrah | Oakley Girvin backgrounder: I believe that people understand brand comprehensively in place. Over the last 20 years, Girvin has been...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Luxury, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 5, 2008
The power of two, of community, relationships in development — and the world of fragrance. I’ve written about scent — working in that brandspace, contemplating the spirit of fragrance in the worlds of commerce, personality, travel, integrated...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 2, 2008
Exploring the concept of an emerging dark luster in design, it might be more so about the exhausting confusion and difficulties of the present market — and the swirling chaos of the near future. What’s happening now? Is the end nigh? Or night, near? What...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 30, 2008
Buzzing, twittering, twitching: Exploring community development in online new media launches. When I was at TED | Aspen, last month, I found myself in a world of people — my age and younger, late 30s, 40s, 50s — who were communicating with each other in...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Mar 27, 2008
Girvin worked on the identity design for a new Peirce | Paramount Studios + MTV film. Kimberly Peirce is remarkably patient. It’s been nearly 10 years since her last effort, “Boys Don’t Cry”, shown here, in the center, with her stars, Chloë...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2008
Store one: Pike Place Market: It’s clear that Howard Schultz is loved, given the rousing support he received at the shareholder’s conference, this past week in Seattle. Even k.d. lang was there, savoring the melange of several thousand people, singing out....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Retail | Mar 20, 2008
Gucci before, above — and now, Gucci anew: Been here: blog.girvin.com/?p=323 I’ve been studying, though not buying, the work of Frida Giannini. I’ve heard she’s an interesting person. I reached to her. Wrote about some ideas and never heard...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Retail | Mar 18, 2008
I was favored with the opportunity to partner with the leadership of Yves Saint Laurent | North America in the development of a brand retail strategy for their flagship store, to be rolled out nationally. How done? We used Girvin’s proprietary BrandQuest®...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Mar 8, 2008
The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Paula Rees. She’s a placemaker. Her...
