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by Tim Girvin | Brands | Oct 22, 2008
The heart of the genuine: exploring the concepts of authenticity, history, brands and the place of luxury. I’d open with the meaning — and the combinational character of the idea of truth fullness — and its apparent luxury in telling — are true... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Dec 8, 2015
Human Brand Strategies | Exploring the Ignition Between Personal Brands, Soulfulness in Action and Enterprise: What Lies within? And What Lies beneath? Photo by Dawn Clark, AIA LEED AP Every Brand is Made for Humans. Every Human Could be a Brand. What’s the Story?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 12, 2015
Lines of thought: sight lines | NYC, LONDON, COPALIS, DECATUR ISLAND, AND SEATTLE What about lines? Light lines. Lines of journey — pathways of the mapping lines of place, to place. I go someplace — and my swirl of journey is all the string of a line, captured. I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent, Trends | Jan 13, 2015
Perfume and Persona — the categorization of demography by scent. I heard this conversation about 10 years ago — one of those rare moments when you have a chance to listen in on people’s impressions of you. That’s happened a couple of times, and in both, it was a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Places | Apr 6, 2008
An examination of conceptions of branding environments for storytelling in contextual community. Case study: Oakley. American Hurrah | Oakley Girvin backgrounder: I believe that people understand brand comprehensively in place. Over the last 20 years, Girvin has been... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 27, 2007
Susan DeChillo | The New York Times I first met Steve Jobs in the 80s. Actually, it was at Stanford. He was there, speaking. And I was there, listening. Afterwards, I went up to introduce myself. And we went from there. I worked on the Macintosh launch and technology... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 13, 2007
I am looking for truth. Looking at finding truth. Looking for businesses — and people — that are about truth fullness. That the story that they tell is a robust expression of the inherent character of who they are. And in exploring that premise, I came... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 28, 2007
What about lines? I’ve been thinking about them. And they’re everywhere. Obviously. But what I’m curious about is the patterning of the line — and what lies in the heart of the line. How’s it made? What gesture within? And the designed... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Jan 16, 2014
THE PERFUME THAT FOLLOWS YOU. As you’re walking the street, a hallway, a waft of scent flows by. Multiple “perfumes of place” drift — if you’re open, you’re scenting them. As well, you’re scenting — the fragrance of you,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Aug 20, 2013
Digging in, the brand archaeology of art, the person, the persona. When you work on a brand, people are involved. Sometimes, companies forget — they think: logistics, operations, planning, transportation, targets, quotients and quotas. For us — and... Read More
