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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 22, 2016
Looking at the dark side of brand, their strategies and their stories. In the work of finding the heart and soul space of a team of entrepreneurs, their creation, a brand and the story of their founding, their making, and the follow-on telling — community and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Trends | Aug 25, 2016
IN SEARCH OF THE SKULL: THE FLAME, THE ROD | DON ED HARDY AND VON DUTCH Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve... 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
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2016
What do you know, anyway? Enchantment, engagement and embracement in the layering of brand messaging, visualization and experience design. The quest to know? The mystery of mind, message and meaning. What about that question, I was contemplating it — someone asked me:... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Sep 28, 2008
Patterning in pattern: the woven, the thread, the cairn, the stone, the array: The psychic language of design, pattern, place and presence. A friend of mine, Susi Johnston, from Bali, introduced me to this group. Doon Susi — she’s a gallery owner there,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 12, 2008
What good is my community — and what communion is there, for me? I was thinking about the idea of goodness — and the notion of human brand — what are we doing that’s good for people? And in doing our work as strategists, designers, marketers... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008
Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 30, 2013
The Light of Brand, the Voice and the Tiering of Message Messaging and stair-stepping access in community Given the entirely human nature of brand, the enterprise of humanity, the idea of thinking about brand as a poetic expression, isn’t entirely without... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail | Dec 7, 2011
QUICK SERVE ACCELERATION FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD & BEVERAGE Spending time working and traveling in Europe, it’s invariable that there would be new insights that might be still unseen in stateside venues. As the food experience in quick serve restaurants... Read More
