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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, Cool People, General | Jul 5, 2009
Exploring Quincy Jones, a vision of newly branding and defining the storytelling of music, culture, trend and coolness: Vibe Magazine Quincy Jones, who just happens to be from Seattle, one of the places that I live and love in, created about a decade and a half back,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 14, 2009
(Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams) Jessica B. Lifland | USA TODAY Who stays, who goes? I can’t push too hard on the proposition that I have anything truly ground breaking, in the context of twitterology, the new science of micro-blogging.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Apr 27, 2009
Sure, I care what you have to say. I’ve been thinking about storms. Mostly because I thrive on storms. When a storm comes, I savor it. I relish the word, the nature of it – the overwhelming presence of the concept of the storm — and, of course, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Trends | Apr 19, 2009
Twelve brands that will die: the beauty in transmigration, dissolution and carnage. There’s a metaphor that where there is smoke, there will be fire — and finally, in the fire, the smoke clears, and who will be there; what will be left? Fire is a kind of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 25, 2009
Exploring the comprehension of the word as a primary aspect of brand development in consumer recognition. logocentrism, n. I’ve been thinking about the context of branding in relationship to the word. I look at words. And see what they say. And what they mean.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Luxury, Storytelling | Jan 6, 2009
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by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Jul 23, 2008
I went to see what Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau Software, has been thinking about. Someone in the blogosphere alluded to Tableau becoming the new Apple. What’s that? But rather, I believe that it is the attitude of Apple — that’s new. It’s... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Places | Apr 28, 2007
The Blur | Notes on Jai Alai. Jai-Alai, you would’ve liked the scene; it was trippy. Very old Miami. Gambling and card playing in the adjoining spaces. With a special boozing and smoking lounge – hyper funky… Notes on jai-alai. It’s, for one,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General | Mar 29, 2007
I went to this screening the other night, and it was the (hi)story of a young man, and later, accomplished sound designer, who grew up in the Bronx. Or maybe Brooklyn. Queens? Anyway, his childhood was, in some words, a kind of incessant trial by fire. It was like... Read More
