by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Scent | Jul 13, 2008
Exploring layering in brand story — what is the story, the brand, the person, the work? In Firenze, I had a chance to spend some time with someone that I’ve admired for a long time — Jon Bresler. Founder of LAFCO. Jon Bresler in the atelier of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008
Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Apr 14, 2008
Some notes on the spiritual branding of the principles of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama — and what that means for business, brand development and human capital in culture. Firms of Endearment. I’ve spent the last couple of days walking around the edge of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | Apr 8, 2008
It started here, http://blog.girvin.com/?p=576, for me, but, there is history: It goes back. And I go back. I can remember the first time that I was exposed to a Tibetan vajrayana teaching presence — a human distillation of Himalayan spirituality. It was Sogyal...
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, 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 | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 23, 2008
Rem Koolhaas A new vision in Dubai is an amalgam of the plain with the bold — OMA & Rem Koolhaas “Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas revealed his concept of “the generic city,” a sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Trends | Mar 21, 2008
For a number of years, I’ve been exploring the idea of patterning in design. Patterning in brand, patterning in architecture, patterned treatments in art. That ranges from the idea of using layering — and pattern — as a kind of subdued code in...