by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 19, 2009
The string of imagination — never underestimate the connectivity of the right telling The concept of the story relates to the string; and that string can be a brand sequence just as well. The point is that the imagining of the telling really doesn’t need...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 5, 2009
Merchandising, adventure, love of work. Some might call it flow, the idea of doing something that you really love, all the time. There are people like that that I’ve met — they just flow, in the happiness of the practice. What I wonder about is the concept...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 18, 2009
The Duke Study on brand, imagination and the impression of self. It’s been pointed out that seeing Apple’s cool logo makes you feel more creative and smarter. And it’s not only about that — how you feel — but how you act. That’s an...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | Sep 13, 2009
A brand that returns to the heart of design in the recollection of story. In the midst of automobile industrial travails, bank ruptures and dreadful vistas for new car sales, the new G.M. Chevrolet Camaro “sex machine” is changing the tidal surges of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 26, 2009
Exploring the construct of brand, community, enterprise and the work that we do. I’ve been a designer for a long time; and working in the creative space is in my blood. My mother was a painter, an artist in every sense of the world, the word. My father is a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Aug 11, 2009
Exploring the mapping of personality and brand in cultural change | Amazon+Zappos and the Endless(.com)…potential. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a point of view — and his strategies, intriguingly, focus on one compelling degree of index. Community attention....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jul 17, 2009
Twitterstory as the last line of defense, offensively. Twitter is a storytelling tool. Every person tells a micro-story in the 140 characters of text that are tied to the messaging output from many tiers of devices. To the brand, the personal brand, the legacy of the...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Jul 17, 2009
Girvin | Movement: examining place, foundation and the archaeology of brand experience Girvin is moving, after a couple of decades in the same place...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Retail | Jul 11, 2009
Exploring the idea of brand, storytelling, personality in the casement of simple typographic messaging Sometime back, we drew a font that we used for a series of soccer posters. We called it Girvenza — for Diadora. It looked like this: Simple. Italian. When it...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Places | Jul 10, 2009
Barney Taxel for The New York Times The place of the personal, the family and human branding in building place(s): The Marons | Cleveland During the course of Girvin’s work, over the range of the last several decades, the family connection — in examining,...
