by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | May 31, 2023
Yesterday, NYC, I had a meeting with a friend, client and global consultant to shopping and retail design trends. She and I worked together on her brand, client relationships, and have spoken together in panels for various summits around the US as well as France....
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Storytelling | May 11, 2023
Mýrdalshreppur, Iceland As a global wanderer—and a wonderer, in that wandering—I’m always thinking about that notion of the deeper side of the stride. And I ask: “what, to walking, what to the steps forward, what is the sense of the way ahead?” And when I think...
by Tim Girvin | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 3, 2023
For motion picture studio teams, agencies and theatrical producers, I’ve been giving these workshop presentations as a proposition to linking marketing strategy, brand storytelling and narrative illustration. In a manner, thinking of movie logos, the identity offers a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2023
The mythological patterning of legend-building—cinematic narrative and ancient thematics—BabaYaga, the BogeyMan and the Hero of 1000 Faces. As any creative would tell you, story-working is a layering of patterns—there are the arcs of plots, the intertwinement of time,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Apr 13, 2023
DESIGNING LOGOS AS A PUZZLE MASTERY SOLUTION Everything’s a puzzle, in a manner of speaking—each game is a labyrinthine array of choices, that play to decision-making that, in amazement, leads to the conclusion, a win or the continuation of another game. In the legacy...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 5, 2023
Positioning a brand with the just right phrasing. In studying the architecture of brands—first off, there’s a need to reach-in, right to the center of the proposition—soul placement. Where does the heart live? What’s the offer of the brand, what does the brand stand...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2023
In the quest for finding the soulful intention of human-built enterprises—first there has to be an underpinning of knowledge about these brand systems and their architecture. Their seeds, their planting, the foliation and the nodality of their evolutions. And finally,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 28, 2023
THE INTEGRATION OF MESSAGE: GRAPHICAL EXPRESSIONS IN A SCALABLE SOLUTION. TINY CAN BE GIGANTIC, SMALLER CAN BE EMULATED IN A TIERING OF ENLARGEABLE OR REDUCIBLE DESIGN TREATMENTS, NOT MERELY AS DESIGN THINKING—BUT AS A DIRECT LINK THE GENETICS OF THE DESIGN. THE...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Feb 22, 2023
In our own history, we have been honored to cross from core motion picture identity to its applicable resonance in production design. Working on the Lots at Paramount, Warner Brothers and Universal, and meeting with the production crews for various film properties and...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 14, 2023
The symbolism of the forest as a figural message cartography. To each of us, there is a moment in our reflections on our work that emerges as a contemplation. And in this instance, it’s a meditation of the tree as a tool to organize a communications mapping of...
