Droid Interface | new brand strategy and design from Motorola
The red seeing eye of the Droid: exploring brand differentiation for telephone hardware First off, since this blog is about brand messaging and imagery strategy, it would be good to explore that as a opener, so there's some ground to the accusations. The basic...
Empowering Brands to Win: Online Promotional Messaging
Internet Advertising Winning Formulae Working as a strategist and designer in theatrical advertising and branding, there's an approach that's linked to sequence and revelation of motion picture content that's showing some proven measure in conventional online...
Local is global: Mom & Popism Shops
Exploring tiny market communities and micro retail -- small shopping is beautiful While I've (and the Girvin team) had the chance to work on some of the largest retail groups in the world, namely Sogo&Seibu Co., Ltd. (Millennium Retailing) and their expansions to...
Le Microsoft Windows Café à Paris
Better than a store, you can eat there: Microsoft Café Exploring a new conception from Microsoft, a café in Paris -- to be short-lived, yet an interesting telling on the principles of relationship development. But, Windows 7? Imagery sources Like good storytelling,...
Tom Ford | Grey Vetiver
Tom Ford in Tokyo. Photo By Akiko Sameshima Exploring the human brand, story, product development, scent and visioning. Obviously, I've got a thing with Tom Ford. There are layers there. One, meeting him, talking to him, interviewing him -- and learning from him. And...
Humanitarian Brand Development | Cause Related Marketing Development — it’s all about love.
What if your brand is about a cause? What if your brand is humanity? What if your real messaging reach is love? This is an overview of Girvin's strategic thinking about the nature of humanitarian and cause-related branding strategy and tactics. There have been a...
The mystery of the book: my encounter with Jorge Luis Borges
The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspiration For a long time, I've been exploring the realm of the mysterious. Perhaps my whole life. But mystery is something that speaks to the character of that which is merely unseen. It is what is hidden. Being a...
The First Microsoft Store
Image from TechFlash Taking pictures of Microsoft's opening retail with iPhones. Sometime back, a friend of mine offered to introduce me to the new leader of Microsoft retail. I won't mention either name, since it's pointless now -- I never connected, either by phone,...
The cycle of the brand story | Kellogg’s at 100 years
Exploring brand, story, reconnection in community 10 | 1909 > 10 | 2009 There are a variety of moves, to the motion | notion of celebration in the anniversary of actions in legacy. An anniversary can be a month, a half year, a year, or two, five, ten, twenty five,...
Movie titling design: the craft of the hand
Customized type face design, font development and motion picture design Over the course of the last 3 decades, Girvin has designed literally hundreds of identity design strategies with hand-drawn typefaces for motion picture main titling design, one sheets, posters,...