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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Jul 19, 2016
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: the future? Could business stand for more than just bizzy-ness and commerce? Surely. And many do. In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Mar 15, 2016
Strategic Magic, Designed Mysticism, Metamagical Thematics. It’s been said that illustration, the real meaning of the word is a shining — to illustrate is “making bright.” But also — to purify. The image above, a sigil of the Heptameron Arbatel, Peter de Abano, 1575.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 18, 2016
BEARING YOUR SOUL DIGGING IN FOR THE SOUL OF BRANDS I was writing a piece, earlier today, on the concept of baring — that idea of revealing, versus the other similarly sounding expression of bearing — which is more like “carrying” something. To bare, to lay open,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Sep 17, 2012
Patterning brand & brand patterning – – developing typologies, morphologies of brand experiences | Graffiti Café, Varna, Bulgaria The nature of experiences, pattern language, visualizing layers of patterned context in place, message and ideology.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Apr 27, 2011
The spiral of brand experience design: Girvin’s red thread of connective analyses The Analysis of the Concept of Place Making and Food Design Working for years on the propositions of food experience — from luxury dining to kiosk service, fast casual to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Places | Apr 22, 2011
Core Values | Sweden — could they be designed? THE QUESTION IS, CAN THE VALUES OF A COUNTRY BE COALESCED INTO AN EFFECTIVE BRAND STRATEGY, THAT THE ENTIRE MARKETING ENTERPRISE — AS WELL AS TOURISTIC AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES — ADHERE TO COLLECTIVELY?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 22, 2011
Can creativity be defined in a brief? What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? No. Brands are inordinately complicated orchestrations. Being that they inherently involve relationships to humans, the idea of “briefness” is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Human brands, Luxury, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 19, 2010
Forging Authentic Brand stories: Examples, Challenges and Directions If telling the truth becomes questioned in a branding proposition, then how to right the equation? With Louis Vuitton (LVMH) as a client, we’ve spent a lot of time studying the brand — in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2010
Brand core: what lies within? The idea of finding the soul of the brand is something that many might immediately chafe against, or laugh out loud — the sheer presumption: brand = soul. But I’m finding that this is increasingly the place in which Girvin... Read More