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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 27, 2020
IN A LEGACY OF DECADES OF COLLABORATION, THERE ARE ELEMENTS THAT SPEAK LOUDER THAN OTHERS, LIKE THE WORDS THAT MESSAGE FIRST-OFF, TO A READING BRAND EXPERIENCER. THE HOLLYWOOD MOTION PICTURE PRESENTATIONS. In the brand journey of forty five years of exploration of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jan 8, 2020
NOT EVERYTHING IS OBVIOUS; SOME ARE MISTED; THEY ARE OCCULT, CONCEALED FROM PRESENCE. SOUL-FINDING, THE DESIGN OF CREATIVITY AND THE PATHWAY TO SOLUTIONS. It can take a quest to find what can’t be known from the surface. What we find—in our BrandQuest®-ing, this... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | May 17, 2017
LOOK OUT, THERE — YOU’RE SENSING THE HORIZON LINE — SEE IN: THE ART OF SURVEILLANCE. THERE IS A LOOKOUT, THERE — THE ROLES OF SENTIENCE, THE SENTINEL AND THE SCOUT. AND IN THE BRAND — WHAT MIGHT YOU BE WATCHING FOR? SENTINEL FOR THE BRANDFIRE Looking out in the... Read More
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 | 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 | 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
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Jan 7, 2011
Aligning leadership, retail expression, innovation and brand identity: what’s happening with Starbucks? Lots of friends have been forwarding me comments and remarks on the transitions of the new mark design created internally at Starbucks for their new promise... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 8, 2013
There’s a story in the story, there’s a poem in the poem, there is a place within the place. [image: girvin | Seattle, 2012] In the realm of any study, the student realizes that there are layers to comprehension — one understands the bare facts,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Scent | Feb 13, 2010
An emerging positioning: be a man, smell good. During an earlier brand development and product innovation program at P&G, Girvin created a product that was designed to speak to young men — and those just following behind, the tweens, to explore and build on... Read More
