by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Storytelling | Dec 19, 2018
EXAMINING THE DEEP SPACE OFSOULFUL BRAND STRATEGY. W H A T I F? You were to think: “really—there’s something deeper, more profound, more magnetically, more soulfully powerful about the enterprise that I’m working on.” There’s more. Really? Perhaps you...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brand Mysticism, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2018
CONCEPTIONS OF ITINERANT LEARNING—EXPLORING THE “GO THERE, GET OUT OF HERE” MODELING OF EDUCATION. “YOU COULD LEARN MORE IF YOU ACTUALLY WENT THERE.” I was talking to an LA team on my traveling, vagrant-based approach to learning—leaning-in to learn by...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 20, 2018
WHAT I LEARNED FROM STAN LEE. AND OTHER UPSTART BRANDING LESSONS FROM STEVE JOBS AND THE WACHOWSKI SIBLINGS. Isn’t it so that, in any journey forward, you go back, to find the points where your heart first opened? And in any journey to know, you must go— out there,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Interior Design, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 14, 2018
DESIGNING FURNITURE THAT PROTECTS THE USER. As a designer, I’m frequently talking about the core power of markings. In fact, at Mark Anderson’s futurist, high tech conference—this year in ParkCity, Utah, I was doing just that—talking about the symbolism of the mark...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Nov 7, 2018
DEFINING THE JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN CENTER: THINGNESS [the it]: FINDING SOUL IN THE MYSTERY OF BRANDING: THE QUEST FOR THE HEART, THE UNCOVERING OF MEANING, THE FOUND MEMORY— THE MOMENT IN THE MOMENTUM. For a brand to survive, there needs to be a stance, a point of...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 13, 2018
THE DESIGN VOCABULARY: VISUALIZATION, MESSAGING AND THE PATTERNING OF IDEAS, MARKS AND MEANING. I had a chance to present, at the behest of the esteemed Mark Anderson a string of ideas at the Strategic News Service presentation of FiRe at the Stein Ericksen Lodge in...
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...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 26, 2018
WE DRAW A LETTER AND PRESUME THAT THERE IS A GRASPED MEANING, BY ALL. ISN’T IT POSSIBLE THAT EVERY MARK HAS MEANING? IT’S SIMPLY GRASPING THAT LEGIBILITY; IT’S THAT YOU [MUST] KNOW HOW TO READ [THEM]. OR THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN THIS NEW LANGUAGE AND THE FORMS THAT...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Interior Design, Marketing 2.0, Places, Retail | Sep 19, 2018
SYNAESTHETIC EXPERIENTIALITY AND DESIGN LEADERSHIP As a journeyer of decades of design, all over the world, and in partnering with many adepts in that journey, it’s interesting to study different models of design leadership. There are collaborators and team-builders,...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 12, 2018
THE DESIGN OF THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW. Isn’t it so that there’s a pattern? As a person that’s been writing strategy and designing for just short of a half century, I get around. See things. I see into things as a designer and a professional; and I see things as a...
