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by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Retail | Nov 16, 2022
YOU MAKE YOUR WAY—IT’S YOUR MAPPING, YOU MARK THE WAY FORWARDS— A PATHWAY THAT YOU TAKE, AND YOU ACTIVATE YOUR FIRST STRIDE FORWARD. To get somewhere, it’s up to you to take the first step. That, of course, speaks to your life— the journey you’re on, what you’re... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2020
The Ecology of the Forest as an allegory for community, audiences and customers. We spend a lot of time studying people—watching them, listening to them and studying them in use contexts wrapped around brands. We look at how people use things, bring brands into their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands | Apr 1, 2020
THE QUEST FOR SOUL, THE DEEP STATE OF BRANDS When you’re working with brand teams, there is inherently a sense about the inner life of brands—what lies beneath, what lies within? When you think about a brand that you know, that you admire, what’s the attraction? In... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Cool People | Dec 18, 2019
SURPRISE: BRAND TRANSITIONING, SPECTACLE AT SHELF AND EPIPHANIC REDISCOVERY ––––––––––––– We were talking to a team of people about “epiphany at shelf.” Goes like: “there’s a product that I know. It’s familiar—I’ve heard something about it, I’ve seen some... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Places | Aug 15, 2024
Feeling in the realm of design thinking, sensation and brand. I took some old Italian handmade paper, folded it, tore it with a bone folder, punched a hole in the head of the strip, and strung red binding thread into the opening and hung it in the trees, amidst the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts | Jun 26, 2025
We tend to think allegorically about the work that we do— brand as fire, design as transformation, and markings as magic. And plenty of the clients that we work with think of their enterprises as deeply metaphorical and soulfully intentioned —light bringers, wellness... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 12, 2014
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 telling — community and relationships — sometimes a darker... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Jan 15, 2015
Experience Design, Sensationalism and the Layering of Sensuality You’re a…sensualist? You = sybarite? –––– This from an emailing from the lexicographical modeling of Visual Thesaurus below, a word cartographic tool that plays to motion-mapping the interrelationships... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 21, 2014
The Signature of Your Presence You have style. Sure, there are your clothes. Your shoes. Your hair Your house, your apartment, your car — and the summary of your brand relationships. Then there is the style of you. Who are you — what do you stand for? What do you care... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 19, 2013
As you explore the perimeter, you scout the range of the work. In our working experience, and in being a Scout and the magnetism of sensation, you need to get close in, first hand, to understand the nature of a brand, its people, its culture; it won’t be... Read More
