Search results for: human brands
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 4, 2009
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... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 23, 2011
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: 2012? In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be a recurrent theme. We are compelled — in the trade of Girvin — to explore the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | May 18, 2022
IS EVERYTHING SLOWER NOW? In the purported aftermath of the Covidularity—[right, invented,] it’s been a persistent experience for me for things to be slowing down. Items of the trade that we’re in, strategy, design and production—paper, for example—hard to find, some... Read More
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,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Trends | Jun 21, 2009
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Warmth, affection, connection, community: physical social networks and emerging branding trends. It’s been suggested that the phenomenon of teenagers hugging has something to do with Michelle Obama. She hugs everyone.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Trends | Dec 3, 2009
Examining the principle of integrated marketing, experience design, and the semblance of the sentient. I’d start with this poetic assemblage. Memories reach back. They are the string from the now, to the then. They link where we are, what we are, to what... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Aug 18, 2010
Brand storytelling that goes back 130 years, and pitched as a marketing strategy for merchandising sales at Barney’s. Notes on selling old brands as something newly hip. Buy, here: I’m looking for True Brands. What I seek is: A story. A person. An offering.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 20, 2018
WHAT I LEARNED FROM STAN LEE. AND OTHER UPSTART BRANDING LESSONS FROM STEVE JOBS AND THE WACHOWSKI SIBLINGS. Isn’t it so that, in any journey forward, you go back, to find the points where your heart first opened? And in any journey to know, you must go— out there,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0 | Aug 31, 2023
The quest for deep storytelling, brand narratives and customer relationships. For about 50 years since—and during—my college and early working days, I’ve given talks, workshops, team presentations to explore some lines of thinking around what we think about brands,... Read More
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,... Read More