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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2024
Exploring the word, the history, the meaning of infectious content. Over the last couple of days, I’ve spent a lot of time talking about soccer—both in outreaches to the soccer-playing community, team owners, well-making soccer-related foundations in support of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Jun 5, 2024
Conceptions of Brand-related built environments for storytelling in contextual community. First off, a reference to the Oakley Headquarters—an environment designed and dedicated to the spirit of innovation that drives the brand and the creation of their products;... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 20, 2023
Highway 109 In the pace of the work that we’re all engaged in—for my readership, brand marketing space—I offer a meditation on the concepts of speed and pace—in the relationship with projects, and anyone, anywhere, anyplace. A question—observing conversations, “do you... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0 | Aug 31, 2023
The quest for deep storytelling, brand narratives and customer relationships. For about 50 years since—and during—my college and early working days, I’ve given talks, workshops, team presentations to explore some lines of thinking around what we think about brands,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Retail | Aug 3, 2023
The Patterning of a Place, Storytelling Symbols in Space Culturally, any explorer of the world’s architecture will sense and see symbolic dimensions expressed in how places are designed—a cathedral would be an obvious journey-making in symbolic expressions. It might... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts | Jul 19, 2023
Business Strategies in Expressive Enterprises GIRVIN’s BrandQuest® Any brand is, of course, an human-focused enterprise—the point being that any brand is made by humans and made for humans and their kin—even in the construct of naturality: nature-made products—their... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | May 31, 2023
Yesterday, NYC, I had a meeting with a friend, client and global consultant to shopping and retail design trends. She and I worked together on her brand, client relationships, and have spoken together in panels for various summits around the US as well as France.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | May 16, 2023
The game goes on. Forever. Obviously, as the design agency of record for Nintendo, in the legacy of our history of brand design in the 80s-90s, we walked the storytelling from design thinking, gamer trials and testing, briefs from Japan’s designers and the... Read More