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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Storytelling | May 9, 2009
Storytelling in retail design As designers, there’s a patterning to be explored, something to be seen, sensed, experienced in the making of place and the character of brand, in story — and the telling of retail. Girvin card deck, obverse puzzle assembly by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Marketing 2.0, Retail | May 1, 2009
It’s not coffee alone, it’s the Starbuck’s experience. There’s a new campaign, popping on Sunday and here’s the sneak peek, referencing Howard Schultz’s intonations — along with some other Starbuckian baristas, offering their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 4, 2009
Classic British design, calmly repackaged in the face of fear. I’m sure you’ve seen this. (image: Graham Turner | WWII propaganda poster, Woodbridge, UK) If you’ve been in London, you would’ve seen it there — festooned, on the walls, an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 3, 2009
Seattle Theatre Group’s Celebration of the Arts, in a Newly Defined Event Modeling: Doorways for everyone. During these times, the present financial travails, there are challenges to virtually every institution — regardless of the scale, the import of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Sep 28, 2012
Could it be that FOMO is really tribal disconnection? Ever been proud that you didn’t know what was going on? Been happy that you had no clue about the newest big deal in your community? Pleased that you had no word on the hottest gossip? For some, the idea of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Feb 12, 2009
Thinking about how things are seen, scene… scene, this — ? the seen, the seeing, the scene? right? Visualizing Twitter as Barack Obama Became the 44th President tableau, go. I was studying this modeling, and collided with, again, Tableau. When I go back,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Oct 27, 2022
Gunung Merapi, Java IN THE MYSTERY OF THE MIST OF FRAGRANCE Living where I live—here in the Pacific Northwest—I’m constantly ambling in the rain and mist; and I note that scent of place is invariably mist-borne. The ocean calls out many stories, carries many... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jul 31, 2019
The cartography of brandfire: the story of highest road, the path of the middle story told, and the cumulus of the multiple tales—the grounding ley-line of the promise—the mission of the everyday. Part: VI I’d offer a theory of the narrative cloud—the stories that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 20, 2016
The Icon of You — The Journey into The Other Those of us that have been around — out there, walking the woods, listening and looking, know the corvid clan…crows, rooks, ravens, jays, magpies and jackdaws. How could you miss them? They’re noisy. They have a point of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 24, 2016
The cartography of brandfire: the story of highest road, the path of the middle story told, and the cumulus of the multiple tales — the grounding ley-line of the promise — the mission of the everyday. I’d offer a theory of the narrative cloud — the stories that... Read More