by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Trends | Dec 20, 2009
I CAN RECALL THAT IDEA, LAUNCHING, THE FIRST REVELATION OF VICE, THE MAGAZINE. A decade + back. It was my eldest daughter that discovered it, in a book shop — she said: “Dad, here’s something, you’d probably like this.” And it’s not...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 19, 2009
Early counsel: the strategy on brand identity, for one of the best motion picture brand developers in the world. A number of years, back, I had the opportunity to work with James Cameron and his marketing team on the conception of the Abyss. That being, in particular,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers | Dec 15, 2009
The savoring of acceleration — fast brand storytelling. Being one who is in the business of acceleration — the development of conceptions that speed, to market, into community, audiences, guest relationships, client spaces and beyond, the idea of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 14, 2009
The analysis of Tweeter types: person to person, twitter profiles. It’s good to be clear about who you are. It’s interesting that there are emerging personality profiles, in users, that come into the webbed world of community in communications. And surely,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Dec 13, 2009
Brand scent, experience design, attention and distraction. The Hollister Retail Blast | Soho, NYC. I am perpetually curious about the scent of place. Walking into any environment, I find myself scenting it — then calculating what layers of fragrance might I be...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 11, 2009
The Collection of Books, the Library as a Place of Sensual Imagining. I’ve been writing about the concept of the book in a multiplicity of layers. I see the book as being a deeper metaphor than merely the concept of a series of paper flanges that leaf, loosely,...
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...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 1, 2009
The pursuit of comfort: contentment during uncomfortable times Working on the brand revolution of Cinnabon, our research focused on finding what was missing, in the heart of the brand, retail experience and relationship management. Actually, there wasn’t any....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 29, 2009
Engaging leadership brand champions: studying the patterning of innovation, the struggle of the paradigm and the modeling of breaking brands free. As a business person, a planner, and a student of enterprise internationally, working on the edge of innovation,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Nov 28, 2009
The First Twitter Christmas What happened? Less shoppers, but more money spent (than last year, surely!). By the running analyses, online, the gathered summary is that the National Retail Federation estimated that 140 million people hit the stores and shopped online...
