Search results for: brand recollective
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Aug 4, 2010
The concept of the haul — get out there, shop, and video the story about what you’ve bought. If I was doing a haul video, it would have to be in a bookstore. I was thinking about how this might apply to me, what would I do – if I was doing a haul... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Aug 2, 2010
ACE HOTEL | NYC: MARTIAL DESIGN BRAND STRATEGIES – Story, visuals, environmental graphics, tactical executions. Military graphic for a hotel (just blocks from GIRVIN | NYC.) And coincidentally, ACE began in Seattle (just blocks away from GIRVIN | Seattle.) Good... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Jun 30, 2010
Imagery source Exploring meaningful enterprises, true stories and the people that have created them. I’m looking for true brands, brands that are seeking to represent themselves in the most authentic manner, have stories in play that are based on the profundity... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Jun 28, 2010
I can remember when my daughter Madeleine, during the 1980’s, first encountered our first Macintosh computer. Just like that — the above. Interface, holistically, can be enrapturing. It’s becoming hard not to write about Apple. The love of the brand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Apr 3, 2010
Brand marketing need, not want. Guy Kawasaki, one of the great evangelists of Apple, along with millions of other MacAddicts and Steve Jobs & Co., emotional shareholders has a question that’s pretty interesting: “The first five million will be sold in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Mar 28, 2010
Exploring identity and television brand design development. In the past, others have promulgated remarkable use of key-strokable, customized fonts, in the development of motion picture graphics. Friend Kyle Cooper, for one. The nature of type design can gather up the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Jan 6, 2010
The opening ceremony in Dubai, January 4, 2010. REUTERS/Ana Marin A building that is a brand: Dubai In the concatenation of buildings that range along the spine of Dubai’s central superhighway corridors, there is one that is just off the main thoroughfare that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 2, 2010
Visioning mission, promise, proposal, proposition and the inculcation of values, notations on design thinking and strategic attention. “Vision can be written, it’s scribing a dream; it’s a designed evocation — a voicing. Mission is that act... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail | Nov 1, 2009
Exploring tiny market communities and micro retail — small shopping is beautiful While I’ve (and the Girvin team) had the chance to work on some of the largest retail groups in the world, namely Sogo&Seibu Co., Ltd. (Millennium Retailing) and their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Aug 1, 2009
Exploring social networking tools in building sharing communities: blogging and direct selling relationships. We worked with Kajeet’s founder, Daniel Neal, to build out the opening of a brand proposition for a children’s mobile phone technology a couple of... Read More