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by Tim Girvin | General, Places, Storytelling | Oct 3, 2007
Luxury Retail design and brand patterning, Jakarta Seibu, Java, Indonesia I had the opportunity to partner yet again with Callison Architecture, Dawn Clark, AIA LEED and Andy Thaemert, Doug Shaw and team on the development of an expansion of the environmental design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Luxury, Storytelling | Jun 23, 2007
Tom Ford | The hand speaks Tom Ford sees, feels and creates what’s right for him. I went back to Tom Ford, on Madison Avenue. This time, to meet with Shirin Von Wulffen; I’d worked with her at Yves Saint Laurent. Now she’s the publicist for Tom Ford... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Jun 1, 2007
Tom Peters made some sequence of offerings wrapped around the space of human branding. That is the idea that you are a brand, worth telling your story, and that people will be paying attention to you. And surely there are plenty of people worth paying attention to.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General | Mar 26, 2007
Sometimes there’s a sense that we look at a brand one way, and there’s a potential for it to be tipped another way; and that can be a good thing. We need to be ready for that, mind full of tipping spaces that will transcend or evolve expression to a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | May 23, 2024
When we study “design thinking, it comes back to a sequence of thoughtful evaluations and engagement with analysis—but too, an exploration of the context of emotion—as tactics are framed to capture feelingness, which flow into the humanity of brand, untethered... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 5, 2024
Deep perceptions, brand metaphors and the avian sentience. For most of my life, I’ve been a student of the birds. I admire them from the perspective of their calligraphic flight, fluttering and drifting, flourishing in elegant strokes in the air. I’ve cut them in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Storytelling | May 30, 2025
Brand Chains, Ropes, Knots and the Entwinement of Meaning As a Boy Scout—even out to the rank of Eagle—I always had a fascination with knots, ropes, lashing, sea-and-water craft in the tradition of sailing. In scouting there is an expectation, as I’ve noted earlier,... Read More
