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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Aug 11, 2009
Exploring the mapping of personality and brand in cultural change | Amazon+Zappos and the Endless(.com)…potential. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a point of view — and his strategies, intriguingly, focus on one compelling degree of index. Community attention.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jul 8, 2014
Studying the journey of brand, and those that gather around them. How close in are you? You say you know, but is that just you? Or others? I was working with a team in Texas, and we were talking about modeling brand relationships — how does a brand team synchronize... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Dec 6, 2023
Your name is your apex point of recognition—it’s the first thing that your audience sees and hears—it’s the hello: “my name is, here’s what I do. And here’s what I can do for you.” We know naming. GIRVIN has a quarter century of active naming experience, with a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 4, 2023
GIRVIN’s 50 years old—speaking of finely-aged, so we have history, and it runs back to wines that we’ve produced ourselves, gifted wines and wine brands we’ve built for enterprises in the US, Asia and Canada. Wines are, as everyone knows, particularly challenging... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands | Mar 21, 2023
We’re all looking for the right answer, and the better outlook after the challenging sequences of the last couple of years. We’re looking for yes. Anytime you have an answer, there was a question before. And any question is a quest— it’s a journey, from one... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 11, 2021
IN THE VISIONING OF DREAMS—AND WHAT NARRATIVE CAN BE BUILT AROUND THEM—CALLING AS A COMPASS POINTING TO TRUE NORTH: THIS IS THE FUTURE, AND LEADERS COME FORWARD. Everyone knows this about leading, it’s pretty simple: “if you’re the leader, you’re the one in front,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jul 10, 2019
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part Three Building the strategies for brand engagement thinking, creative intelligence workshops and tactical layouts for innovation sessions. Working on a project for the planning of a market design program for an emerging... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Oct 3, 2018
ALPHABET DESIGN VISIONING AS THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF BRAND IDENTITY As a brand designer, you’re thinking—“where is this business going?” “What’s the point, who cares, what’s it about—how’s it going to work?” And then, after these opening queries—that project work comes... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Storytelling | Dec 12, 2017
WRANGLER®, BADLANDERS AND COWBOY SPIRIT. DESIGNING BRANDS AROUND AMERICAN COWBOY ETHOS. I noted the Wrangler event in Vegas [now running] and it reminded me of my journeys into farm-work, bull riders and cowboy culture — here and abroad. We have deep history in the... Read More