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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Jan 18, 2011
A Decade of Evolution: technology, evolution, distribution — the music genome project I can recall, in the very beginning, the idea of Tim Westergren’s notes on the concept of Pandora. Back then, an email to Tim would be returned, and that the story of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Luxury, Storytelling | Jan 6, 2009
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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 23, 2011
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: 2012? In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be a recurrent theme. We are compelled — in the trade of Girvin — to explore the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jan 10, 2024
Brand Magic, the Succession of Time, and the Portals of Perception The very nature of brands is entirely wrapped around people—“who built the brand, and for whom did they build it?” Otherwise, to GIRVIN’s parlance:“what’s the story, who’s telling it, who’s listening,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Oct 31, 2023
Some observations on the strategy of illustrative brand identity transitioning. I know this is a reach for many of you—as a watcher of the series— but it’s the season, so a reference: happy halloween. Perhaps also likely, you wouldn’t be caught “dead” watching any... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Jan 28, 2022
WORKING IMAGINATION | THE IMAGINEERS AT DISNEYLAND In my history as a design leader, we worked around various propositions of entertainment at Disney—not only working on films, but Disneyland itself, in a string of calls from the Imagineering teams at Disney,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Jun 15, 2021
SOMETIMES YOU GO BACKWARDS IN TIME TO GO FORWARDS TO THE FUTURE. AND THE SYMBOLISM OF THE INTERLOCKING CHAIN OF MANY STORIES FORMS THE TRAIL OF A TALE, A NARRATIVE THREAD—WHICH COULD BE FROM THE PAST, WHICH COMES TO THE PRESENT, WOVEN IN THE INTERLINKED... Read More