Search results for: brand belief
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Luxury | Jun 1, 2010
Ermenegildo Zegna’s Vellus Aureum Luxury strategies and authentic truth. Making things by hand is a disappearing legacy. And even to the concept of the most luxurious, the idea of an object being completely handmade is a vanishing tradition. The concept of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Trends | Feb 21, 2010
© 2008 Sam Carter & Patrick Gunn Collections 1896 Ginger Beer Exploring restrained packaging design vocabularies in brand. We’ve been working on packaging, up north in Canada. And in exploring the idea of messaging, in the context of container expression... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail | Sep 5, 2009
Exploring Retail Conceptions as an Experiment These days, everything should be an experiment; things are moving too quickly for us not to adopt a laboratory approach to exploration, learning and strategic advancement. All of us have been to Colette, Paris, examining... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 8, 2009
Cloud mind: the metaphor of fluent vapor — the clouded allegory in the context of computing, burgeoning creative, a multiplicity of minds: amassed. “A person using cumular language would say that a universal negative is upset not only by predication of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Jul 13, 2009
Human brands | the spirit of brand development in the context of cause related marketing There is something to the travails of the human condition in communicating the benefits of solutions that many organizations attempt to express, in terms of the uplift that they... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jun 2, 2009
Why does Tim Girvin love crows and ravens? Some people have equated the raven as being something inextricably linked to me — my personal brand. That is, when people see something on the raven, or the crow, they presume that I know about it, or should. And they... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People | Jan 5, 2009
Björk, the venture capital of the imagination. Björk “I will not be able to live with my own conscience when my grandchildren drive around Iceland and it’s just full of factories and smelters.” -Björk My first connection with Björk was through the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Dec 14, 2008
I’ve been looking for truth. I’m looking for truth in my self — what do I do, in practicing what I tell, preach, to others. And telling the truth in the reign of the firm — what we do, what we offer, and how we go about doing it, in finding the truth and the heart of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 5, 2014
I was trying to connect with what I thought was an open resource — a brand, an enterprise, a place, a team of people. Nope. What if you were closed all the time? [Image: a door on 30th Street | off Madison, NYC]. I tried to sync up with the team, the brand, the... Read More
