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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, Human brands, Storytelling | Jul 19, 2016
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: the future? Could business stand for more than just bizzy-ness and commerce? Surely. And many do. In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 16, 2016
BRAND KICKSTART: ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND GIRVIN office lobby working session | Seattle THE IMPETUS OF SPIRITUAL BRANDING — EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF ZEN IN THE CONSTRUCT OF BRANDING In working with teams, on the implications of their brand, the process is inevitably... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 7, 2016
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language I was walking a forest, looking at its pattern language — the light, the array of the trees, the patterning of Light on the forest floor, the tread of footprints in the shadowed light of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 29, 2016
PLACEMAKING AND JOURNEYS ………………….. WORKING + BEING IN A CERTAIN PLACE — A JOURNEY OF FINDING. When you get some where, what do you find? There’s one critical point, to the idea of working in other places in the world and that is learning to be there: work there,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Motion Pictures | May 10, 2012
Stanley Kubrick + Douglas Trumbull > Monoliths on Mars Seeing the imagery of a so-called “monolith” [alá 2001, A Space Odyssey from NASA on Space.com reminded me of a string of experiences — working in Hollywood. During the development of a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | May 4, 2011
Girvin These are the days of experiments: everywhere, everytime. And great ideas, inspirations, and answers — coupled with the wisdom of experience — can click in an instant. See something, react to inception, go forward. Sensing is big — yet what is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Aug 18, 2010
Brand storytelling that goes back 130 years, and pitched as a marketing strategy for merchandising sales at Barney’s. Notes on selling old brands as something newly hip. Buy, here: I’m looking for True Brands. What I seek is: A story. A person. An offering.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places, Trends | Apr 20, 2010
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language It’s been an obsession with me to explore the concepts of brand development and patterning in place-making. And it’s something, as well, that Girvin has been involved with for... 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
