by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Jun 1, 2007
Image used under CCASA4.0 Tom Peters made some sequence of offerings wrapped around the space of human branding. That is the idea that you are a brand, worth telling your story, and that people will be paying attention to you. And surely there are plenty of people...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | May 30, 2007
There’s one thing to a pen, drawing, there’s another to a pen, writing. And being a longer term practioner who plays in both spaces — the drawing and the writing, it will be interesting to see, yet again, if this concept takes hold. Yes, me —...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Luxury, Places, Retail | May 22, 2007
I’ve been tracking Tom Ford’s work closely, from before our YSL days. I loved that work, working with you…and it was great learning more about the man, the history ( all of them ) and the characters that emerged in the brand. Not sure where...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General, Places | Mar 30, 2007
Hi and good morning. I went to Gabellini Sheppard to talk to them about some things. And they’re right on the foot of Bond, in NYC. I walked over to 40 Bond, to see about Ian Schrager’s new venture with HerzogDeMeuron. And what’s happening, there? Or...
by Tim Girvin | General | Mar 28, 2007
Heavy bag (and you know who you are), meet this fist | Harry Hurt III What I like about this is that I know that | this space very well. And in a way, it seems like I’m always working in that (semi) martial space — either fighting myself, or fighting,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Places | Mar 26, 2007
The last day was that last tango with the minds of the wildly ranging talent that is TED. More adventures, more risk, more exposures. And it’s all about that risk. Exploding the trust of what you are, what you can be. That might be a thread — breaking the...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General, Places | Mar 25, 2007
Okay, so I’ve been busy, and trying to fill out the remaining days has taken time. Days, right? Daze, right? Like a week or so, really. And there’s more, too. More learnings — and of course, so much more learning that it took me a couple of daze to...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General | Mar 24, 2007
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. I’ve always been a lover of fire. And smoke. It’s a family thing. My father is a pyrophiliac and he got me started in loving things that are on fire. Not in any sense of destruction, per se; it’s more...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Scent | Mar 23, 2007
There was all ways the myth of the beginning in her, that was un-named and known as force of making, Matrix and in that mystery, found, burdened, measured then lost in the fool that was man. The scent of the beginning drifted away, yet remains [ p e r f u m e ] in the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Storytelling | Mar 23, 2007
What story is there when the tale is hardware and the phone set for kids? Couple that thinking with a slightly schizophrenic jumble and you’ve got brand: Kajeet. Jeet is the personality, safety — the reference, yet a gameworthy fun is woven in....
