Search results for: brand recollective
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jul 3, 2024
The Quest for the New, in Remembering the Past Contemplations on brand innovation and evolution patterning I bought a new car in Portland, Oregon, and I recalled my days working down here. Time goes by. And back then, I was working with Lloyd Reynolds—and later, a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 3, 2011
Girvin | Rodarte The story on the story in the story — human | brand layering: passion, fire, color, sensation, context and meaning. There is the seen surface; and there is what lies beneath — in shadow, use, care, overlay and redrawing. Palimpsest... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands, Places, Storytelling | Feb 12, 2015
The Deep Sprint: If you’re going someplace, how are you paying attention? Brand journeys and explorations. I can remember a time — especially when my children were younger — that traveling was a cumbersome burden. Now, my children are onto their own lives, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Designers, Scent, Storytelling | May 14, 2008
Brand experience is always about gathering content and pointing — even in synaesthetic context — to all of them. The notion of synaesthesia is about sensations crossing modality, from one sense to another. This concept of merging sentience speaks to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 13, 2007
I am looking for truth. Looking at finding truth. Looking for businesses — and people — that are about truth fullness. That the story that they tell is a robust expression of the inherent character of who they are. And in exploring that premise, I came... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Trends | Aug 4, 2011
Studying the nature of surveillance | the lookout, the sentinel, the scout (and the brand). S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the shifting world, there is what is flowing out — the push; and what is flowing in — the pull. The... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 8, 2011
1.27.2011 Men Are Drawn to Competition-Based Pay Men were 94% more likely than women to apply for a job if its salary potential was described as being highly dependent on competition with other employees, according to John List of the University of Chicago. The online... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2010
Exploring brand, story, authenticity and truth in cause-related marketing Every humanitarian cause reaches from the beginning, the heart of the person, in dreaming that dream, that change, that new dimension in experience that could change the world. It starts with... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 23, 2009
Image from TechFlash Taking pictures of Microsoft’s opening retail with iPhones. Sometime back, a friend of mine offered to introduce me to the new leader of Microsoft retail. I won’t mention either name, since it’s pointless now — I never... Read More
