Search results for: brand storytelling
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2020
BRAND DESIGN, INSPIRATION, CONSTRUCT AND MEANING The quest for the right place of brand identity—starting with strategic foundations of name, story, stance, personality and chromosomal attributes, integrative and experiential tactics—extends to look, and, inherently,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 30, 2009
Exploring the fashionability of the preternatural (brand) Lina Leandersson | “Let the Right One In” Magnet Releasing I’ve made some observations in the past, about the patterning of doom — the idea that in the midst, or in the emergence of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Storytelling | Aug 29, 2024
Thinking metaphorically, there are plenty of symbolic allegories between the notion of brand building, design strategies, messaging and storytelling. You—brand designer, brand thinker, theorist, strategist—when you think of brand, the notion of a constructed and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 9, 2014
Who are you, anyway? In several recent conversations with client companies, there has been a gesture to a kind of invention — like: “make me something I’m not.” “trying to look, speak, sound and feel like something” else. “I don’t like how we look.”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts | Jul 19, 2023
Business Strategies in Expressive Enterprises GIRVIN’s BrandQuest® Any brand is, of course, an human-focused enterprise—the point being that any brand is made by humans and made for humans and their kin—even in the construct of naturality: nature-made products—their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General, Luxury | Oct 14, 2007
Perhaps you know the classic rendition of “A Pattern Language”? The premise of this fine theoretical explication by Christopher Alexander is that there are a series of movements, patterns, that relate to how space, volume and presence can be reflected in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism | Feb 1, 2018
THE JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN CENTER OF THINGNESS [the it]: THE HEART, THE MEANING, THE MEMORY AND THE MOMENT IN THE MOMENTUM IN BRAND MYSTERY. What is the being of a brand? It’s a story. It’s a person. It’s a dream — it’s a visioning to another tier of neo-rightness and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Designers, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 27, 2021
When you think about a place— what aspects are the most memorable? From my view: patterns, there are patterns that intertwine in the experience of a place that become distinctly memorable. That can speak to unique uses of materials—as in the gnarly grizzle of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Dec 1, 2021
IN THE JOURNEY OF BRAND DESIGN, IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO MEANING, MEMORY AND SENSATION. We’ve been working around the brand frontline for 4.5 decades. There are a string of alignments that emanate from that succession that are the core questions that always come to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands | May 12, 2021
YOU AND YOUR STUDY OF THE BRAND THAT YOU OWN—WHAT IS YOUR WATCH? EVERY GOOD BRAND AGENT IS ON THE SURVEY FOR ACTION, ANALYSIS, COMMUNITY AND RELATIONSHIPS, TRACTION AND SALES, INTELLIGENCE AND KPIs. S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the... Read More
