by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 27, 2017
BUILDING DESIGNED BRAND STORYTELLING IN THEATRICAL MARKETING | JOURNALING STRATEGIES AS DESIGN THINKING. I used to teach workshops called “Find Your Raven.” These were journal workshops built for people to explore writing, page composition, collaging life experience...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 13, 2017
TO GO FORWARD, YOU GO BACK. WRITE WHAT WAS. In my own experience, the study of the craft of design — which is, as we have explored — the signing of persona and intention, message and visual character, personally interpreted. To presume that a designer acts as a kind...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 16, 2017
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S NARRATIVE WEAVING IN DUNKIRK I saw Dunkirk the other night, and it was interesting to study — to watch and walk the design and the holism of its building: the place that it makes in mind, heart and sensation. The building of the design of the...
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Jul 19, 2017
WANDERING, YOU GET OUT THERE — IN A STRAIGHT OR MEANDERING LINE — THERE ARE PLACES TO DISCOVER, MEMORIES TO BE MADE, FRIENDS TO FIND. AND YOU’RE FOLLOWING WHAT BEACON, MAP MADE, LINE TRACED? YOUR PLOTTED LINE, YOUR INSTINCT, THE SUN, A DREAM? DESTINY? Of course, as we...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Jun 14, 2017
FUTURE FORWARD | BRAND STRATEGIES AND INTENTIONAL IGNITION TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE. Brief creativity? Can creativity be defined in a brief? Probably not. What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? In a cycle of a half-decade, more often than not,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 7, 2017
THE BASTARD LETTER | LITTERA BASTARDA, JON SNOW & THE CALLIGRAPHY OF THE GAME OF THRONES GIRVIN CALLIGRAPHY CLASSES WALK OUR TEAMS BACK IN TIME — THE CRAFT AND HISTORY OF THE LETTER, A JOURNEY IN PALAEOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL HISTORY. What was drawn then, what was...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | May 31, 2017
The Quest for Meaningful Relationships and Memorable Commitments, Magnetic Brands. Strategies of change, impermanence and content: collaborative design and GIRVIN evolutions. I was talking to someone about history — my history — now four decades of continuous practice...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 4, 2017
THE PASSION OF INSPIRATION: YOU-BRANDING | HUMAN BRAND STRATEGIES FLAME ON! I met Tom Peters, just moments after his (as usual) carefully integrated marketing of “the brand called you” positioning. As ever, he knows how to get the work / word / world out there quickly...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 21, 2017
The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspiration Jorge Luis Borges I had a dream about this man, this meeting and I had to recount it again. It’s one of the things that happens when you’re on the road a lot — there is a time where a simple chronological...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Feb 22, 2017
HOW’S THAT FEEL? Girvin BRAND REACTIVITY: THE INTUITIVE RESPONSE IN INSTINCTUAL RECOGNITION IN BRAND STRATEGY THESE ARE THE DAYS OF EXPERIMENTS: EVERYWHERE, EVERYTIME. AND GREAT IDEAS, INSPIRATIONS, AND ANSWERS — COUPLED WITH THE WISDOM OF EXPERIENCE — CAN CLICK IN AN...
