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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Dec 2, 2008
Exploring integrative identity and developmental work on the House of Orange, Valentino, Bardessono and Harvey Nichols | Jakarta — logo story in brandplace and other case studies. There’s an implication in the current realm of testing behavorial study,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General | Dec 14, 2008
This is the third in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Retail | Mar 23, 2009
Several years ago, at a WWD | CEO Summit, in Miami, I met Leslie Wexner, the fabled CEO of The Limited Brands. Actually, he was waiting to speak at the event, and I went to him, to ask some questions. One questions burned in my mind. Simple, but compellingly powerful... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Motion Pictures | Jan 15, 2010
The sense of time in brand: chronology, palaeography and theatrical accuracy. There are a grouping of writers that explore the concepts of typographic design and motion pictures. I’m one. While the notion of typographic precision, in design, is some what of a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 5, 2010
Search and Data visualizations: hunt, gather, search and recognition. WikiLeaks and the storm of misuse of content — and how they look. The visualization of search, the quest for answers and gathered content — are you happy now? WBPaley.com The Map of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Feb 16, 2010
Paramount Studios Are you telling the truth – do you smell right? The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time . . . and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. (Proust, 1913/1928,... 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 | Brands, Concepts, Luxury, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Mar 29, 2010
Exploring the concept of a single brand article, captivating market share and perception There are a series of brands that found their legacy based on the proposition of a single product — and they can either build on that foundation, over time, or they become... 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, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Jul 12, 2010
The proposition of men, designing men’s stuff is an interesting one — from Filson to designer Axes, from canvas luggage to gear that guys want. What’s the pitch? To the general philosophy that there’s a men’s designer consciousness... Read More
