by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | Oct 17, 2010
Redesigning connections to community, experience design and retail food service “This incredible new store design represents our ongoing commitment and leadership in global store design and offers a new experience to the Capitol Hill neighborhood. You will have...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 6, 2010
Drawn from the heart: simple design prototypes from the 30s: design strategy and clarity of intention The heart of creative: drawing, sketching, roughs, comprehensives made by hand, brush and simplistic inspiration. A friend of mine in Santa Monica, composer Stuart...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Oct 4, 2010
THE SPIRIT OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION TAKEN TO ANOTHER EDGE. FINDING PERSONAL ALIGNMENTS, THE HISTORY OF THE PRACTICE. Antonio Lopez illustration Origin: lustration 1615–25; < L lūstrātus, ptp. of lūstrāre to purify, illumine. Seeluster1 , -ate1...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail, Trends | Sep 24, 2010
LIFEBOX + PAUL STAMETS: BUILDING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN GREENING PACKAGING. Shipping boxes as miniature forests. DREAMS, MUSHROOMS, ETHNOBOTANY AND THE CULTURE OF FUNGI I’ve been friends with mushroomologist — read: mycologist — Paul Stamets since...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Sep 22, 2010
Image: iPhone Defender As the world gets trickier, let’s think about products as self defense strategies. I’d written a while back, only days ago, about the idea of design strategy — DESIGN THINKING AT APPLE. Actually, I’ve no clue as to...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 14, 2010
Seeing better, the sharp-eyed, or the old ones of the forest? What’s the patterning? Ravens, eyes, Tom Ford and now Dermalogica? Just a note, but what’s the thread of the archetype — Tom Ford eyewear and now eye recovery, with Dermalogica? More to...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Interior Design, Retail, Trends | Sep 10, 2010
Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs What’s the point of leading if you’re not in front? I was studying overviews on Steve Jobs, Apple strategy, some thinking about leadership and the reflection in consumer relationships and Apple marketing, but more particularly...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Retail | Sep 3, 2010
The raven as the icon of black beauty, primordial intelligence, mystery and the old ones. RAVENS AS THE DARK STORYTELLER, THE MYTHIC BLACK RAINBOW. Is the etymology of corvid derived from the ancient Proto-Indo European seed sound kos, for shout? That would seem...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Aug 18, 2010
Brand storytelling that goes back 130 years, and pitched as a marketing strategy for merchandising sales at Barney’s. Notes on selling old brands as something newly hip. Buy, here: I’m looking for True Brands. What I seek is: A story. A person. An offering....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | Jul 13, 2010
Speaking with colleagues, people have asked — “you seem to know something about what’s going on at Starbucks; but really, who’s doing the work?” I just talk to people — being the perpetually curious type. And I ask questions....
