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by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Storytelling | May 26, 2022
WORKSHOPPING LOVE AND PASSION I was talking to a colleague about “love,” the notion of letter-writing and love-worthy thoughts expressed in a hand-notated missive, one human to another. To that, we were talking about stamps—particularly this love stamp I’d designed... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Trends | Dec 13, 2021
BRANDS LED BY WOMEN The power of the feminine principal When I was in college, I studied the archetype of the Great Mother who—and which— might be defined as less of an archetype in the common parlance of today’s voice, and more of a deep, collective unconscious... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts | Nov 19, 2021
Every day, as much as I can, I like to get out there. It’s a mix between terror and joy, fear and exhilaration, exultation and trepidation. Don’t you just love that moment when the fearsome rears up at you and then, rising up on the crest of that momentous inquietude,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jun 30, 2021
IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE? OR IS IT A BURGEONING STORM? THE BRILLIANT, SCINTILLANT IDEA EMERGES AS A BREEZE—A SOFT TELLING, THEN THAT SHALL BECOME A WIND-RIVEN ROAR. There’s a question—the how of inspired idea[l]s—which could come as a lightning... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Trends | Jul 28, 2020
SLOW BUT SURE Meditations on focus and acceleration—you are here, you are where? We preach that directed attention is a meaningful strategic pathway that brand teams need to use towards the most focused clustering of ideals and inspiration, soulfulness and integrative... Read More
