Search results for: brand belief
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General | Feb 2, 2009
Exploring spirit and transition | the legacy of the Human Brand in passage Several years ago, Chie Masuyama and I were in Japan together, exploring brand development in that market, as well as meeting and presenting with Pierre Dinand, my partner in an alliance for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | May 16, 2011
Resonance, Relevance, Relationships — the three indices of connection and community Brands have to matter to be unforgettable. Given the flooding of exposures, those that are strong will require extraordinary staying power. But more importantly, to the nature of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 9, 2020
IN THE JOURNEY OF BRANDING—AND THE VISUALS AND MESSAGES THAT ARE PART OF ANY BRANDING INITIATIVE—THERE IS, INVARIABLY, A MESSAGE INSIDE THE MESSAGE. THERE’S A STORY IN THE STORY, THERE’S A TELLING INSIDE THE NARRATIVE. I believe that I first experienced this in the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Oct 22, 2020
ANY BRAND HAS TO THINK ABOUT ITS PLACE—THE PLACE THAT IT MAKES: HOW PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IT AND HOW THE STORYTELLING THAT IS REVEALED—AND, IN THAT, HOW THAT FEELS. I learned about brand and place-making earliest in my career—at the very beginning—college trade—painting... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General | Jul 5, 2009
Exploring Quincy Jones, a vision of newly branding and defining the storytelling of music, culture, trend and coolness: Vibe Magazine Quincy Jones, who just happens to be from Seattle, one of the places that I live and love in, created about a decade and a half back,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 13, 2023
The Interplay of Ideas, Visuals, Tiering and the lnterlacement of Branded Conceptions You might know, when you contemplate the sensation of brand experience, it’s not one element alone that is memorable, it lies in the layering of tiered, experiential moments that, in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Jun 14, 2023
As brand strategists and designers of brands, we think about memory as a key reference to relationships in community—it’s a simple questioning: what’s memorable? For a customer, GIRVIN’s Brand R’s: which asks: what are the key points of relevance—what’s immediately... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts | Dec 14, 2022
THE QUEST FOR DEEP METAPHORS IN SYMBOLIC PATTERNING, BRAND VISUAL LINGUISTICS In Paris, the above plaque was an installed signage in a small studio’s shopfront off the Seine, Rive Gauche. It was a place that I shared with Pierre Dinand, as a working collaborative lab,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Nov 6, 2019
IN THE QUEST FOR ENTERPRISE, BRANDS ARE INTIMATELY LINKED TO THEIR MAKERS In the journey of brand development, in the work that creators build in the envisioning of products usually aligns their personal character in the mix of their making. That is, brand DNA is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 20, 2015
LEGENDARY CULTURES AND BRANDING: LEGACY BRANDS WITH SOUL Brands with soul, brands that tell authentically-founded stories, true brands that people care about. Are they invented, built, restored, or managed as a legacy? All of these, and more. LEGEND BRANDING: What is... Read More
