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by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Aug 20, 2009
Exploring the conceptions of love, commitment to vision, work and the life long pursuit of something meaning full. In acknowledgment of my Mother’s birthday, today, at 80 times around the sun. I’ve been working on a human brand study of Richard Avedon;... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 17, 2009
Exploring the origin, development and renewed applications of the word. Brand storytelling, animated in humanized beauty — mind, thought, hand, expression. Calligraphy is beauty and writing, combined. And it’s long been seen as a kind of remote and obscure... 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
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jul 17, 2009
Twitterstory as the last line of defense, offensively. Twitter is a storytelling tool. Every person tells a micro-story in the 140 characters of text that are tied to the messaging output from many tiers of devices. To the brand, the personal brand, the legacy of the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, General, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Jul 17, 2009
Girvin | Movement: examining place, foundation and the archaeology of brand experience Girvin is moving, after a couple of decades in the same place... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Places | Jul 10, 2009
Barney Taxel for The New York Times The place of the personal, the family and human branding in building place(s): The Marons | Cleveland During the course of Girvin’s work, over the range of the last several decades, the family connection — in examining,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Jul 4, 2009
Kevin Mazur | image.net The death of Michael Jackson and brand, emotion, memory and sales. It’s an unfortunate synchrony that unexpected passage boosts the propositions of the selling of that person. And, of course, this happens time and time again, looking... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | May 26, 2009
Marketing sex, retail and the recession There’s been a dire downturn, underlining the bleakly obvious. And it’s been down for everyone — everything — everywhere. All markets — and each of us — everyone’s been affected,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | May 23, 2009
Healing, storytelling and the wisdom of Aesculapius One would presume that physicians are storytellers — guiding patients in transitions that are gathered from layers of experience in the sphere of living, teaching, healing, and the practice of medicine. Many... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 4, 2009
Classic British design, calmly repackaged in the face of fear. I’m sure you’ve seen this. (image: Graham Turner | WWII propaganda poster, Woodbridge, UK) If you’ve been in London, you would’ve seen it there — festooned, on the walls, an... Read More
