by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Jul 12, 2024
A contemplation on gratefulness Notes on the death of my father, George W. Girvin, 7.05.2024 “Why do you have skulls around you, everywhere?, I mean, you’re always wearing skull scarves, rings, all that.” Someone asked me this question. I have a long...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 3, 2024
The Quest for the New, in Remembering the Past Contemplations on brand innovation and evolution patterning I bought a new car in Portland, Oregon, and I recalled my days working down here. Time goes by. And back then, I was working with Lloyd Reynolds—and later, a...
by GirvinIT | Brands, Concepts | Jun 12, 2024
There’s a word that GIRVIN uses as a way to define the thoughtful design of brands in the context of a 360º sentience—experientiality. It’s a spherical watchfulness—in one classical reference, keep your “head on a swivel, watch your six” way of approaching a place,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 16, 2024
A Meditation in Abandoned Signage There is a It is in the everyday—that you walk by—or on. There’s a message in that which is here. And that, left behind. The message could be: look here. No, up there. Or behind you. And while you look. Watch out, better still, be...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | May 9, 2024
The Quest for Creative Inspiration, Imagination and Personal Iconography I photographed this bird in the Himalaya— in Bhutan, a place of the Raven Gods. As some know, I have a long history with Ravens—the birds. This comes from earlier, childhood and mystical...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2024
Exploring the word, the history, the meaning of infectious content. Over the last couple of days, I’ve spent a lot of time talking about soccer—both in outreaches to the soccer-playing community, team owners, well-making soccer-related foundations in support of...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts | Apr 4, 2024
The Brand, the Allegory, the Symbolism and the Story Our history is our story, it’s the nature of our wandering in the winding course of our lives, our explorations and poetic discoveries. The question might come to the nature of the wander—and what is that, just a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 7, 2024
Seeing stories in Brands, Design and Gesture. As a leader of workshops, and team-related branding sessions, I tend to watch my teams very carefully. My last blog spoke to listening, and appreciative observation— how to study the evidences of emotion in the gestures of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 29, 2024
Paying attention, appreciative perception and the emotionality of listening Isn’t it interesting, the way people lean-in? Leaning-in, they’re paying closer attention— why is that, is it a hearing expression? “I lean-in so I can hear better?” In running brand summits,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 15, 2024
A Wanderer’s Journey, Sensing the Heart, in Memory—From Afar In a bitterly cold subway channel, during a time when the ice was hanging stalactitic from the ceiling girders of the NYC Metro—and wind whipped so cold up the railed canyons of the running lines that eyes...
