by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Jan 16, 2013
The Letter form and the Design of Talismans Over the past several months, I’ve been talking to a younger person about the idea of the place of magic in a sub-current of popular culture [Supernatural;] in a manner, the interest in magic is an ever-popular...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 17, 2012
Layering content, the palimpsest of meaning A calligraphic broadside, a gift, for speakers and presenting participants at The Evergreen State College 40th Anniversary. When I was a student, library adviser, workshop instructor and finally, faculty member [graduate...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 22, 2011
Exploring the emotionality of strategy, the humanity of brand, untethered creativity and the tactics of design management. EXAMINING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE We’ve got history in the balance between the concept of the crossroads of creativity and intelligence, as...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Jul 27, 2011
Early hand drawn explorations of the letter IMAGE: GIRVIN | hand made cut star alphabets in 12 languages –––––– There’s a rhythm to the alphabet, drawing it, the forms can flow from one character to another. The story of their evolvement is a legacy of thousands...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 29, 2009
Engaging leadership brand champions: studying the patterning of innovation, the struggle of the paradigm and the modeling of breaking brands free. As a business person, a planner, and a student of enterprise internationally, working on the edge of innovation,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Nov 22, 2009
GIRVIN’s Strategic and anthropological brand research in global enterprise, personality, and profile testing. What is the line that moves towards marketing to the psychic space of a person? How do you find the heart of a relationship? Brand to person? Person as brand...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2009
“Steve Jobs 1955-2011” by segagman is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Exemplars of Apple Messaging and Brand Product Events: Theatricality and entertainment marketing strategy in the presentation of ideas. Being one whose livelihood is wholly built on the premise...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 11, 2009
Brand strategy exploration: Yves Saint Laurent | Girvin: 2007 For a presentation on entrepreneurship, branding and emotional content to the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GIRVIN’S FOCUS has been directed to the concept of brand development and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Mar 23, 2009
Art Wolfe | Wikipedia imagery file Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The brand that is a living, loving being. Art Wolfe and I go way back — decades; but my personal relationship with him goes back further — into the recesses of my...
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,...
