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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Places, Retail | Aug 23, 2012
Marvin Traub and Bloomingdale’s Girvin’s 1985 2-sided shopping bag for Bloomingdale’s The height of retail branding | Girvin, John Jay, the 1980’s. Campaign Theme Design as a Form of Integrated Retail Experience THE DEATH OF MARVIN TRAUB | 22... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General | Apr 3, 2012
THE MARK OF THE WORD Tim Girvin shooting words, textures, materials | photo Dawn A. Clark THE WORD OF THE MARK, THE POWER OF THE WORD, THE CONTEXT OF MEANING: MARKED W O R D M A R K, n. All Imagery except the first — noted and duly credited — by GIRVIN... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling, Trends | Mar 26, 2012
Powerful ideas, invention and brand re-alignments, newly imagined. I’m looking for surprise, beauty, spectacle — designing it, looking at it, seeing it, extending that story — the telling of it. To tell anything, there has to be another — the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General | Mar 10, 2012
the roots of making, by hand — Apple computer image above, tweet from HuffPst. In the beginnings, at Apple 70s, working for Steve, his driving curiosity was always about how to take the hand, into the computer — and mix/improve the outcomes — for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Feb 24, 2012
Brand experiences that are designed to holistically speak product strategy, merchandising & manifestation Apple comes to mind. We have commented. It might be projected that some brands offer merchandise, particularly in the fashion retail experience, that are... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Dec 27, 2011
Those that own the brands, own the story to hold the brand — and in offering that, carry forward their own story. Setting style, imagination, art and the making of scene, scent sent. “She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living.” Designer and film... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 20, 2011
Bergdorf Goodman designing the street — where legendary windows own the sidewalks. I reached to former CEO, Dawn Mello — the retail legend, a friend in NYC. And my other “Dawn” pal. Dawn is a rare breed — a kind of perfected myth of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Scent | Dec 2, 2011
IN THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, SCENT EVOKED, PERFUME DESIGNED ON THE BREEZE OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BOOK, The Shadow of the Wind, written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, there is a story, wrapped a story, hidden in a story — a book, among many books, hidden in a mythical... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Nov 24, 2011
ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR AND CENTERING Walking a old, forested Buddhist compound outside of Tokyo, I was told that the temple site was a specially sacred site — and one that was anciently “magical.” The idea of spirit spaces, places that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 7, 2011
The Fragrance of Blood ROUGH PERFUME TRADE #1 The Perfume of the Most Primal Liquid — the Scent of the Sanguine (The first of three essays on unusual scent strategies) I pricked my finger while I was sewing a torn shirt, and put the wounded in my mouth, to stop... Read More
