Search results for: fashion design strategies
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Apr 27, 2011
The spiral of brand experience design: Girvin’s red thread of connective analyses The Analysis of the Concept of Place Making and Food Design Working for years on the propositions of food experience — from luxury dining to kiosk service, fast casual to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | May 11, 2008
Sometime back, after some midtown meetings, I’d been making my way back to the NYC Girvin office. And I came across this treatment for Chipotle, a McDonald’s concept investment. But the point is hardly about the opening collaboration in ownership (founded... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design | Mar 13, 2013
Designing story, in place, the allegory of nature, space — in making a place I find myself in the study of the symbolic, the metaphorical — and, to the end, the magical. I recall when Apple defined the iPad as ‘magical.” An interesting choice... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 24, 2011
What do you know? The mystery of mind, message and meaning. I was thinking about that question — someone asked me: “well, what’cha know?” And I contemplated the depth of the question. It’s just as powerful as “what’s your... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places | Feb 2, 2010
The right type — communicating simple, elegant pathways in environmental graphic design. I was standing in the subway, NY Transit Authority (MTA) — the proverbial NYC subway system and thinking about the complexity of the way-finding system there. Frankly,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers | Dec 15, 2009
The savoring of acceleration — fast brand storytelling. Being one who is in the business of acceleration — the development of conceptions that speed, to market, into community, audiences, guest relationships, client spaces and beyond, the idea of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts | Dec 4, 2019
BRAND SENSATIONALISM: HOLISTIC BRANDING AND SPHERICAL EXPERIENCE STRATEGY As in many studies of business, the notion of samurai strategy is most commonly evinced in “The Book of Five Rings,” written by warrior artist Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – June 13, 1645)... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Oct 13, 2008
cold steel |raw materials in architecture I savor materials that are used in the rawest of fashion(ing). Places, building interiors, external details, fastenings and material applications. Large scale applications of raw industrial materials oftentimes reflect a kind... Read More
