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by Tim Girvin | General, Retail, Scent | Nov 14, 2007
There are two attributes of experience in shopping. One is purely acquisitional — that is, merely on the notion of action and purchase; there’s no focus other than that, in acting and acquiring. You are looking for something and you want it, you buy it... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Apr 8, 2014
WHEN I GET CLOSER, I KNOW MORE As I touch something, I can feel inside. Isn’t it so, for you, that when you touch something, you know more? In a conversation, touching the person that you’re communicating with, adds a series of punctuations and pauses that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 27, 2014
THE LEGEND OF CULT AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF CULTURE In an engaged manner, culture appeals most inherently to the idea of cultivation. A metaphor of gardens, flowering and nurturing growth. In the cultural revolution of the world inside brands, the longest shadow from... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2013
While I was walking in the woods, the ancient layers told me their stories. [Image above by Justin Kern, altered by Dawn Clark, AIA, LEED AP] When I was young, in NY, my parents took me to the New York City Museum of Natural History [AMNS.] This was a whim reaching to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Interior Design, Places, Trends | Mar 1, 2013
Small living, the Footprint of Micro places The delicacy of small, thoughtfully crafted, green-built and well-organized places to live in. Working with a housing development team in Seattle, Girvin’s ideator® naming team built a naming strategy to support the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail | Sep 7, 2012
These days, the idea of an anniversary is the search for legacy — and there are many that are searching for legacies, threads, reaching back to the soul of earlier years, when another degree of artfulness, more robust storytelling, a new flavoring of history... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Oct 1, 2012
RETHINKING ANCIENT DESIGN — REMADE NOW, NEW. I’m interested in the idea of old [even ancient] design strategies rethought, to new principles of action. My own history is about scouring and memorizing 2,500 years of alphabetic history, and dreaming new... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Luxury, Marketing 2.0, Scent | Jan 16, 2012
THE STRATEGY OF A STORY, THAT’S AN OLD STORY, THAT’S A NEW STORY, RETOLD. Why do you carry a story, that is another story (even brand story) that becomes your story — brought forward? What does the listener hold? If there’s a scent – a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 7, 2011
The Fragrance of Blood ROUGH PERFUME TRADE #1 The Perfume of the Most Primal Liquid — the Scent of the Sanguine (The first of three essays on unusual scent strategies) I pricked my finger while I was sewing a torn shirt, and put the wounded in my mouth, to stop... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Oct 4, 2011
Stories, myths, legends, tales — the link to humanity If there’s a story about a person, which might be a legacy, a family, a product — a brand — who’s telling it, and who cares? There are chains, coils, rings that sync and bridge the... Read More
