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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Oct 29, 2010
EXPLORING HONOR, TRIBUTE, CARE IN THE MAKING OF BRANDS. Rethinking difference in the re-making of Apple principles. “Marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world. And we’re not going to have a chance for people... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands | Oct 25, 2010
Exploring the conceptions of brand, story and the human presence of healing A 400 year old story, the alchemy of healing Over the course of the last number of months, I’ve been working — along with the team at Girvin, Norman G. Jones and Premchit Prateap... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Oct 4, 2010
THE SPIRIT OF FASHION ILLUSTRATION TAKEN TO ANOTHER EDGE. FINDING PERSONAL ALIGNMENTS, THE HISTORY OF THE PRACTICE. Antonio Lopez illustration Origin: lustration 1615–25; < L lūstrātus, ptp. of lūstrāre to purify, illumine. Seeluster1 , -ate1... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Aug 23, 2010
Designing things to be altered by fire. Girvin Smoke principles, brands and the waft of fire. Firebrands. I’ve been thinking about fire and smoke a lot these days, as you might’ve noticed. But like the proverbial A persona, I can’t relinquish the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | Jul 13, 2010
Speaking with colleagues, people have asked — “you seem to know something about what’s going on at Starbucks; but really, who’s doing the work?” I just talk to people — being the perpetually curious type. And I ask questions.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Jan 30, 2010
A series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. I’ve swung in and out of Vogue, with minimal amounts of work to do — precisely from a professional standpoint — with the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 10, 2009
The stroke of ideas | calligraphy, lustration and the smoke of being. I’m contemplating the idea of the liquidity of ideas, in the animations of ink, scent, smoke and ideals. I’ve written about the context of this, earlier — the notion of energy and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 17, 2009
Exploring the origin, development and renewed applications of the word. Brand storytelling, animated in humanized beauty — mind, thought, hand, expression. Calligraphy is beauty and writing, combined. And it’s long been seen as a kind of remote and obscure... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 20, 2009
Who do you trust? Facebook search engine results? Your friend’s a brand. Google has long been the apex of search mechanisms, beating out the rivals of Yahoo, and still, so too, emergent entity bing.com. But Google has its sights on the social space, such as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General | May 25, 2009
A voyage of inspired imagination. When you are young, you recall points of connection that are unmistakably remarkable, they are life changing — dynamically shifting you from one point of view to another. Or, they might too suggest moments of new discovering... Read More
