Search results for: brand storytelling
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places, Trends | Apr 20, 2010
Creating organically realized places with conceptually founded pattern language It’s been an obsession with me to explore the concepts of brand development and patterning in place-making. And it’s something, as well, that Girvin has been involved with for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Sep 6, 2009
Every brand is designed by a human; and built for a human, yet we don’t often think of ourselves as living brands. The notion of branding is based on premises that are thousands of years old; it’s less about the proposition of being merely a business... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 12, 2015
Your Brand, too full of “stuff?” What could you take away? In the question of our search for full and robust brands, building them, finding the heart of them, it becomes a query — “when is too much?” Sometimes, it’s better to stay at the heart — the work that resides... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Storytelling | Dec 30, 2009
The code of the brand, designing experiences with layers of brand expression — if you’re there, do you know that you are? In working on dozens of retail design programs for more than three decades of experience, or in other environments where the context... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Nov 9, 2009
Exploring the challenge of branding, focused market relevance and brand storytelling. Some time back, I was asked by a Creative Director at a major food producing organization, to create a brand shift that would take the riskiest flagship brand to a place of renewed... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Jun 13, 2012
A KEY START, TO ANY DEFINITION OF SELF, BRAND, ENTERPRISE, DIRECTION. The Quest for brand stance and conditioning. In my office, at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Stewart, Seattle — on the wall, a sign poses the simplistically profound question: “Who are... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 7, 2009
Strategies of brand patterning, collaborative design and Girvin evolutions Design is about the embrace of change. And any brand, over time, has to freshly attach to the conception of transition in continuously and resiliently responding to shifts in the market. The... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Aug 23, 2016
Strategies of brand patterning, collaborative design and Girvin evolutions Design is about the embrace of change. And any brand, over time, has to freshly attach to the conception of transition in continuously and resiliently responding to shifts in the market. The... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 19, 2010
Image reference The White House Brand, Desirée Rogers and Barack Obama brand management The concept of the alignment of the principles of human branding and political figures isn’t new, but it might be suggested that the strategic launch of Barack Obama was more... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 19, 2010
Brand core: what lies within? The idea of finding the soul of the brand is something that many might immediately chafe against, or laugh out loud — the sheer presumption: brand = soul. But I’m finding that this is increasingly the place in which Girvin... Read More