by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 9, 2019
THE STRATEGY OF EXCAVATION, BRAND ARCHÆOLOGY AND JOURNAL WORK CREATIVE MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF BRAND FUTURITY THERE’S WHERE YOU ARE. WHERE YOU’VE BEEN. AND WHERE YOU’D LIKE TO BE. HOW COULD YOU GET THERE— IGNITING THE FUTURE? WHEN WE’RE STUDYING A CHALLENGE,...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 13, 2019
A CLOUD OF MINDS, CROWDSOURCING IDEAS, INNOVATIONS AND DIRECTION: WHERE COULD YOU GO? AND HOW COULD YOU GET THERE? CUMULARITY AND MUSICALITY: THE THUNDERSTORM OF MINDS, A MUSICAL WHORLING TOWARDS THE NEW: NIMBUS NIMBLE, TORNADO TURNTABLE, STRATOS STRATEGY: I’ve...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Feb 27, 2019
DESIGNING PLACES: EXPLORING THE DEEP METAPHORS, SYMBOLS AND ARCHETYPES IN PLACES MADE RETHINKING EXPERIENCE STRATEGY In the journey of designing guest enchantment pathways, customer experience procession, there is one path to consider—step by step, what is the...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jan 31, 2019
THE DRAWING OF MOVIE LOGOS AS A STATEMENT IN THE ARTISAN INSIGHT: FROM MIND TO EYE TO HAND AND THE ILLUSTRATION OF LANGUAGE AND IDEALS. When I was in college, I didn’t really study conventional “graphic design,” in fact, I skipped it altogether. The module on...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Storytelling | Dec 19, 2018
EXAMINING THE DEEP SPACE OFSOULFUL BRAND STRATEGY. W H A T I F? You were to think: “really—there’s something deeper, more profound, more magnetically, more soulfully powerful about the enterprise that I’m working on.” There’s more. Really? Perhaps you...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, BRAND MYSTICISM, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2018
CONCEPTIONS OF ITINERANT LEARNING—EXPLORING THE “GO THERE, GET OUT OF HERE” MODELING OF EDUCATION. “YOU COULD LEARN MORE IF YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE.” I was talking to an LA team on my traveling, vagrant-based approach to learning—leaning-in to learn by...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 20, 2018
WHAT I LEARNED FROM STAN LEE. AND OTHER UPSTART BRANDING LESSONS FROM STEVE JOBS AND THE WACHOWSKI SIBLINGS. Isn’t it so that, in any journey forward, you go back, to find the points where your heart first opened? And in any journey to know, you must go— out there,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 14, 2018
DESIGNING FURNITURE THAT PROTECTS THE USER. As a designer, I’m frequently talking about the core power of markings. In fact, at Mark Anderson’s futurist, high tech conference—this year in ParkCity, Utah, I was doing just that—talking about the symbolism of the mark...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Nov 7, 2018
DEFINING THE JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN CENTER: THINGNESS [the it]: FINDING SOUL IN THE MYSTERY OF BRANDING: THE QUEST FOR THE HEART, THE UNCOVERING OF MEANING, THE FOUND MEMORY— THE MOMENT IN THE MOMENTUM. For a brand to survive, there needs to be a stance, a point of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2018
THE DESIGN VOCABULARY: VISUALIZATION, MESSAGING AND THE PATTERNING OF IDEAS, MARKS AND MEANING. I had a chance to present, at the behest of the esteemed Mark Anderson a string of ideas at the Strategic News Service presentation of FiRe at the Stein Ericksen Lodge in...
