by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2008
Store one: Pike Place Market: It’s clear that Howard Schultz is loved, given the rousing support he received at the shareholder’s conference, this past week in Seattle. Even k.d. lang was there, savoring the melange of several thousand people, singing out....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General, Retail, Storytelling | Mar 4, 2008
Martin Lindstrom 3.4.08 Human branding, the brand: human. If ever there was a person that had created a brand presence around his very embodiment, it would surely have to be Martin Lindstrom. Still, given the experience — and the expertise — of his global...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 28, 2008
I’d met Trish May, the foundress of Athena, several years ago — perhaps closer to a half decade now, considering our history in partnering on her business launch. She was a Microsoft executive with some serious international business strategy and marketing...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Storytelling | Jan 24, 2008
There is a mythic dimension in the character of storytelling; it’s an ancient tradition — it reaches to deep archetypes and cyclical patterns that show themselves repeating ways in which messages can be understood and shared — and how they can be...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General, Storytelling | Jan 11, 2008
I was thinking about the concept of enthrallment. It was something that was mentioned to me during an encounter with Diane Ackerman, the author and poet, who described herself, her life, in that manner. Life’s spinning, a series of enthrallments. And I like that...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Designers, General, Storytelling | Dec 31, 2007
1. How did you get your start? My start? Raw curiosity for one. That’s where it all started, that drove, and drives everything that I am made of. I am one that is easily enchanted by content. I can be ignited in a moment, if the right spark is there. A love of...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Luxury, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2007
Elle Magazine I’d read the news about Claude Chirac in the past, studying her — in the political management of her father, Jacques Chirac. While she’s been defined as chilly, the fist of steel in an Herm glove, I believe that her character has more...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
What about lines? I’ve been thinking about them. And they’re everywhere. Obviously. But what I’m curious about is the patterning of the line — and what lies in the heart of the line. How’s it made? What gesture within? And the designed...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
This is about identity, visualizing and animation — and retail. And something I’d tried to do, but couldn’t. And someone (WOW | Tokyo) that did. My story. Their story. —- Last year, I’d worked on this idea of projecting this giant...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 15, 2007
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It’s interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise,...
