by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Retail, Trends | Jan 27, 2010
Firescript: the hand, the drawing, the gesture and a legacy. I’ve got history on the concept of the tablet. Friends of mine, running hardware design at Microsoft – I told them – what about the idea of showing the art of what this hardware could be?...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Jan 25, 2010
Art on streetscape | holding construction and the impending quietude in the wait for financing Still, most people are waiting for financing; that is, the banks, while mostly funded back in government bailouts, repaid in context, other major projects are sitting and...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Motion Pictures | Jan 24, 2010
Sky Captain, Hugh Ferriss, Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes and the implications of design in entertainment Over time, I’ve had the chance to link with, and work for, extraordinary talent. It’s a blessing. And it’s a gift of the work — as a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jan 23, 2010
How branding, intuition and distribution built a $300 million product at POP. Hanging out with increasingly younger people, I’m finding exposure to drinks that, well, I wouldn’t have thought I’d consider drinking in the past. But I have been, not so...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | Jan 16, 2010
Notes on notes. Opening a note, the other day, from someone. It was something — an object — that was a carrying of the touch of that person. A notation, a missive, an expression. It’s interesting, the idea of handwritten, the touch, the inner...
by Tim Girvin | General, Motion Pictures | Jan 15, 2010
The sense of time in brand: chronology, palaeography and theatrical accuracy. There are a grouping of writers that explore the concepts of typographic design and motion pictures. I’m one. While the notion of typographic precision, in design, is some what of a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Jan 10, 2010
Dawn Clark|photo Perfume, memory, sentience and wandering; exploring the fume of an experience. Getting around, wandering, I find myself not infrequently smelling my way through places. Scent is memory; it’s the definition of recollection in experience. You can...
by Tim Girvin | General | Jan 6, 2010
The opening ceremony in Dubai, January 4, 2010. REUTERS/Ana Marin A building that is a brand: Dubai In the concatenation of buildings that range along the spine of Dubai’s central superhighway corridors, there is one that is just off the main thoroughfare that...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 2, 2010
Visioning mission, promise, proposal, proposition and the inculcation of values, notations on design thinking and strategic attention. “Vision can be written, it’s scribing a dream; it’s a designed evocation — a voicing. Mission is that act...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Jan 1, 2010
Is it really about love, or it is about the affection effect? Branding and marketing strategies with love as the focus. Some thoughts: It’s been proffered that there’s an emerging phrasing of love in advertising and marketing promotion. I don’t think...
