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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 15, 2016
The Deepest Cut: The Brand Allegory of the Cutting Edge In the journey of brand strategy, storytelling and design, a number of allegories constantly emerge. There is the journey, the road less traveled and the search for the pathway there are brand symbols of shining... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Trends | Oct 27, 2016
ANALYZING HOW [WELL] IT WORKS The spiral of brand experience design: Girvin’s red thread of connective analyses The Analysis of the Context of Place-Making and Food Design Working for decades on the propositions of food experience — from luxury dining to kiosk... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Sep 29, 2016
Brands that are clear. Brands that are fuzzy. Smoky brands, uncertain visioning, vague commitments fuzzy ˈfəzē/ adjective 1. having a frizzy, fluffy, or frayed texture or appearance. “a girl with fuzzy dark hair” synonyms: frizzy, fluffy, woolly; More 2.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Sep 6, 2016
The Context of Holistic Branding, Experience Design and the Person In NYC, I was talking to an Aikido master about sensation — and the sphere of awareness. It might be suggested that Aikido — a “way of ki,” is more about finding the divinity of an opponent, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Aug 4, 2016
Start-up Brand Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Wachowski Brothers and Stan Lee. By Tim Girvin — with Social Media commentaries and recommendations by Fletcher Helle When there is a lesson to be learned, listening makes for the best course of cumulative action. Learn and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Jun 30, 2016
Exploring the branding of hyper-caffeinated power drinks; what image is presented — what story found? And yes, why do I drink them? Montages by R.Bird In the last 20 years, I’ve had plenty of experience exploring drinking in Asia.From Tokyo to Seoul, from Bangkok to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 2, 2016
ALL THAT WANDER SHALL BE FOUND The Quest for Metaphor, Personal Symbolism and the Iconography of Journey IN THE WORK ON BRAND, the questing strategist invariably finds that — besides the fundamentals of commerce — there are deeper values to the work: there is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 31, 2016
Working from Scratch: Customized Type Face Design, Font Development and Motion Picture Design The presumption is — design by hand and the work is better. Is that right? In the study of aligning idea to shining, brand to epiphany, inspiration to magic — there is the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Luxury, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | May 26, 2016
Care, Craft and Centrality in the Value of Place in Authentic Making Earlier, working in, and writing about, luxury, I’d talked about truth — the deadly virus of pompous positioning of luxury goods. “Yes, fancy surely, but we actually had it made in China on the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places | May 19, 2016
The Beauty of Ruination — the Quest for Damage The fascination with ruins. The beauty of that which was. When one hears that phrase, “brand new” it usually implies that which is bright and shiny — freshly made, just out of the mould. I tend not to have much interest... Read More