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 | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Jul 27, 2011
Early hand drawn explorations of the letter IMAGE: GIRVIN | hand made cut star alphabets in 12 languages –––––– There’s a rhythm to the alphabet, drawing it, the forms can flow from one character to another. The story of their evolvement is a legacy of thousands...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 24, 2011
What do you know? The mystery of mind, message and meaning. I was thinking about that question — someone asked me: “well, what’cha know?” And I contemplated the depth of the question. It’s just as powerful as “what’s your...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Dec 15, 2010
What lies beneath: the nature of the X, the cross road, the crossing guard, the mark of the x and the magic of the nexus. The symbolic allegory of the x mark. When I was in Bali, I surprised by the villagers attention to the white flagged pieces of paper that hanged...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 14, 2010
Exploring the detailed visioning of leadership in brand management. This article appeared in the June 2010 issue of Arcade | Architecture and Design in the Northwest. Fire. BRANDFIRE | A culture of passion What lies beneath I think we need to be thinking about our...
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,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Nov 22, 2009
GIRVIN’s Strategic and anthropological brand research in global enterprise, personality, and profile testing. What is the line that moves towards marketing to the psychic space of a person? How do you find the heart of a relationship? Brand to person? Person as brand...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2009
“Steve Jobs 1955-2011” by segagman is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Exemplars of Apple Messaging and Brand Product Events: Theatricality and entertainment marketing strategy in the presentation of ideas. Being one whose livelihood is wholly built on the premise...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 11, 2009
Brand strategy exploration: Yves Saint Laurent | Girvin: 2007 For a presentation on entrepreneurship, branding and emotional content to the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GIRVIN’S FOCUS has been directed to the concept of brand development and...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 24, 2009
Studying the context of intuition in branding When we’ve had the opportunity to explore the notions of testing — locally, nationally, internationally, even in micro-community and localized interceptions — it’s interesting to consider what is...
