Search results for: human brand
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2013
Building brand identity around story, environment and experience The design of a gaming world is a multiple year commitment, and a spectacular investment — especially when the notion of a gaming world coincides with the conception. Some never make it, fueling... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures | Feb 11, 2013
Design studies for the LOTR and Peter Jackson The process of film identity and brand development is intensely competitive, there are a series of talents, team and agencies whose sole enterprises are focused 100% of the time on theatrical advertising — for an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 3, 2012
The crafted design of layered stories, the mischief [and surprise] of what is unseen, and hidden — and the obvious ploy to plotted attention: the art of intentional concealment, personal secrets [held and shared], storytelling explication and the unfolding of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Places, Retail, Trends | Sep 26, 2012
Sometimes the best restaurant concepts are the simplest, the most honest, the most direct. They go back to the heart of giving, exchanging and trading enterprise. Asking the core questions — Why [do we love this idea — devoting ourselves to it]? Where... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Storytelling | Dec 5, 2011
Could the connectedness of one person to another, the perception of placement be — vibration? What is the vibe of this place? What is the vibe of you? What is the vibe of brand? It’s possible that everything circulates, pulses, surges on the nature of vibe... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 11, 2010
A note from Ed Kelly: content, contentment, relevance, resonance What’s the story, who’s telling it, what’s it look like, and who cares? I’ve been an American Express cardholder for coming on 20 years. And I met Ed Kelly, CEO, American Express,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | May 17, 2010
Cinematic alignment, storytelling and brand recreation “Breathless” regains its inhalation. Fifty years after the film’s release in France, Rialto Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to a new 35 mm print of Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave groundbreaker, which... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Mar 10, 2010
The Character of the Alphabet and the Maze of Knowing, the Real and Uncertain. What’s real, anyway? And — to the question of “any way, which?” what is the right “reading”? There’s a mystery in the alphabet — one, ages... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 14, 2009
The analysis of Tweeter types: person to person, twitter profiles. It’s good to be clear about who you are. It’s interesting that there are emerging personality profiles, in users, that come into the webbed world of community in communications. And surely,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 4, 2009
What is the brand of place? I’ve thought, long and hard, about the idea of brand in place. Moreso, the concept of the contained generosity, in sharing, and the nature of the host, the hostess, in creating a place of content — made; that is: if... Read More
