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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Places, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2012
Any restaurant brand follows a sequence of dream, to visioned story, a name — articulation in space, made to place. Space = cavitation + emptiness, silence and aloneness. Place = warmth / humanity / beauty + containment / story [and possibly: spectacle] Our... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 20, 2011
Bergdorf Goodman designing the street — where legendary windows own the sidewalks. I reached to former CEO, Dawn Mello — the retail legend, a friend in NYC. And my other “Dawn” pal. Dawn is a rare breed — a kind of perfected myth of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail | Dec 7, 2011
QUICK SERVE ACCELERATION FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD & BEVERAGE Spending time working and traveling in Europe, it’s invariable that there would be new insights that might be still unseen in stateside venues. As the food experience in quick serve restaurants... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 26, 2011
EXPLORING BROADCAST IDENTITY DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICS, KELSEY GRAMMER AND STARZ NEWEST SERIES: BOSS EARLIER IN THE YEAR (2011) OUR TEAM was asked to build identity treatments for “Boss.” This was the first time we’d connected with Starz, for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Retail | Sep 28, 2011
the first of two observations | brand, metaphor, retail design NASA Designing a strategy of remarkable visualization: the conscious design, creative intelligence and the mystery of dreams Sometime back, Dawn Clark AIA, LEED AP and I’d considered the idea of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Jul 8, 2011
The Concept of the Fragrance — and the Prison. What’s Left in the End of Solitude? Listening to prisoners led Beaux to create perhaps the greatest perfume ever. I listen. I was talking to a prisoner — this, a casual aside — a man who’d... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Scent | Dec 17, 2010
The study of scent, recollection and experience An obsession with scent: the fragrance of place It’s pretty clear, to anyone that works in the fragrance place of marketing, brand strategy, utilization of tactical “fume” in enhancing experience, that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers | May 27, 2010
Art, branding and jewelry I had an experience in working with the fragrance group at Bulgari, along with another friend, an executive marketing partner there, that moved on to build the brand Gilt. Recently, the concept of exploring the art of jewelry and its... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Scent | May 7, 2010
This blog reference comes from a request from Steve Heller — to write something about scent — about design — and creating and understanding experience. I was talking to him at a conference we were speaking at together — and he asked —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Apr 17, 2010
Exploring brand dissolution in Japan: heritage, brand storytelling and emotional resonance in community Working as a designer in Japan in the 80s, then the 90s, lead me to some extraordinary explorations, from the height of Japanese corporate design and the supremely... Read More