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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Retail | Mar 18, 2008
I was favored with the opportunity to partner with the leadership of Yves Saint Laurent | North America in the development of a brand retail strategy for their flagship store, to be rolled out nationally. How done? We used Girvin’s proprietary BrandQuest®... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 10, 2008
Designing The Pearl | Lincoln Square | Bellevue, WA Working with an extremely tight and confined team — I, along with others at Girvin | Seattle, as well as architect Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP, and Robert Norwood, interior designer, began an extraordinary... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places | Jun 1, 2008
Exploring form language, art and brand. Miro Kuzmanovic | Reuters My first large-scale awareness of Anish Kapoor, live exposure, was in October 2006, at Rockefeller Center, NYC. But I’d studied his work, off and on, for about 15 years:... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General | Jan 25, 2008
To the nature of the human brand — the story that lies in the character of the person and how that genetic quality extends outwardly — there is, perhaps, no better place in the designer’s world, than the realm of designed power and human... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 11, 2013
Design thinking deep metaphors When I was working as a brand / design strategist at Procter & Gamble, on brand innovation, I’d partnered with a closely-aligned colleague there, Iain Douglas. We talked about, and worked on, the layering of ideas — of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Places | Jan 4, 2013
Retail Brand Language: The Layering of Patterning. The design language of brand patterning. Brand patterning, psychic patterning — the hidden and the obvious messaging of place-making and experience, designed. I was watching some people in a place, and watching... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 3, 2012
The crafted design of layered stories, the mischief [and surprise] of what is unseen, and hidden — and the obvious ploy to plotted attention: the art of intentional concealment, personal secrets [held and shared], storytelling explication and the unfolding of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Motion Pictures | Nov 9, 2012
Theatrical design, costumery and captivation Who’s the man? There’s always been a supreme masculinity in the legacy of the mythic, Ian Fleming archetypal character and the theatrical playing power of James Bond – perhaps never better evidenced that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design | Jul 5, 2011
When I think about an experience, it’s always a mix of complex impressions. I absorb. I like to sit and watch — people, interacting with place and content. Sameness is less memorable. In the quest to create perfected brand conditioning, sometimes that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Jan 7, 2011
Aligning leadership, retail expression, innovation and brand identity: what’s happening with Starbucks? Lots of friends have been forwarding me comments and remarks on the transitions of the new mark design created internally at Starbucks for their new promise... Read More