DESIGNING DISNEYLAND | BRAND PLACEMAKING AND INNOVATION
WORKING IMAGINATION | THE IMAGINEERS AT DISNEYLAND In my history as a design leader, we worked around various propositions of entertainment at Disney—not only working on films, but Disneyland itself, in a string of calls from the Imagineering teams at Disney,...
BRAND PATHWAYS | EVERYPLACE YOU GO, YOU’RE GOING SOMEWHERE
In our experience, brands are—and should be—on a perpetual move, never quiet, always exploring, evolving, tuning and turning to new relationships and communities. And most brands do—with forward thinking leadership, they’re thinking—“we’re missing something here, we...
THE LEGACY OF THE TOMB RAIDER | ILLICIT ANTIQUITIES, ADVENTURE, AND BRAND STORYTELLING
We worked on both Angelina Jolie properties, under Simon West’s direction…
IDEATION AND NOMENCLATURE | WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT’S YOUR NAME?
GIRVIN IDEATOR® NEW BRAND DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION AND NAMING. There are two sides to the issue of a name—one is “hey you, what’s your name?” Or, “my name is…” The other is, “I call your name…And I know your truth, you are mine.” One might say that the ancient strategy...
TO A BRAND, WHAT’S RELEVANT? TO A CONSUMER, WHICH CALL IS THE MOST RESOUNDING–AND FINALLY, WHICH BRAND DOES A CONSUMER RELATE TO?
MARKETING SPEAKS TO BRAND STORYTELLING, BUT THEREIN LIES THE SINGULAR FOCUS, THE REALM OF ATTENTION—AND FURTHER, THE INTENTION OF THE REACH. That comes down to the specificity of relevance and utility, the sound of the brand and its resonance to consumers, and...
THE CULT OF THE MOTHER | BOLD CREATIVITY, FEMININE LEADERSHIP AND BRANDFIRE
BRANDS LED BY WOMEN The power of the feminine principal When I was in college, I studied the archetype of the Great Mother who—and which— might be defined as less of an archetype in the common parlance of today’s voice, and more of a deep, collective unconscious...
JÁIME LES SENSATION FORTE
IN THE JOURNEY OF BRAND DESIGN, IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO MEANING, MEMORY AND SENSATION. We’ve been working around the brand frontline for 4.5 decades. There are a string of alignments that emanate from that succession that are the core questions that always come to...
COURAGE AND BRAND RISK | THE STRIDE INTO DANGEROUS TERRITORY
Every day, as much as I can, I like to get out there. It’s a mix between terror and joy, fear and exhilaration, exultation and trepidation. Don’t you just love that moment when the fearsome rears up at you and then, rising up on the crest of that momentous inquietude,...
MAKING MARKS | BRANDCODING® AND THE SPIRIT OF THE BRAND
TOUCH ME MORE OFTEN. When you circulate, out exploring things—places, brands, natural experiences in the outdoors—what do you do? How do you explore? Me? I’m a touchy-feely kind of a person—I like to touch things, which is inherent in the character of my work, since I...
DESIGNING THE DREADFUL
According to a high school buddy, now a Emmy-winning screen writer, horror is the new “it.”