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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Incubation, Storytelling | Oct 12, 2009
Brand strategy in cause related marketing Every brand begins with a human, and that sense of the “human-ness” is aligned with intentionality. Humanitarian brands — those which espouse the notion of aid for other human beings — are intentionally... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 25, 2009
Exploring exchange, love, cultural branding. We’ve been exploring this idea of brand, love, warmth and community; and we all know that any enterprise relationship will center on several things — the notion of relevance (“it’s something that I... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, General | Sep 20, 2009
Creativity, Dance, Business and You An event, benefiting the Seattle Dance Project Group, The Ruins, Seattle. 9/27/09 1.00pm-4.00pm. There’s a distinct alignment between the spiritual principles of dance and the living life of brand development. If we quickly... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 18, 2009
The Duke Study on brand, imagination and the impression of self. It’s been pointed out that seeing Apple’s cool logo makes you feel more creative and smarter. And it’s not only about that — how you feel — but how you act. That’s an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 9, 2009
Marketing apocalypse, branding oblivion I’ve been studying some thematic elements in Russian society — a sense of myth, Slavic legend and a kind of genetic leaning in the personality of Eastern European storytelling — and, of course, how that relates... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 7, 2009
Designing the brand as an excursion into the extraordinary: imagination and digital place-making in adventure. Girvin has thrived — and designed — for decades in the extraordinary, the enchanted, imagined environment as a place of design marvelment; since... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Aug 31, 2009
Brand identity, integration, story and truth. I’ve spoken about the reach to true brands. What are they, what resonation have they with audiences and who cares about the story that they promulgate? I’m looking for true brands; and, in my own work,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | Aug 11, 2009
Exploring the mapping of personality and brand in cultural change | Amazon+Zappos and the Endless(.com)…potential. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a point of view — and his strategies, intriguingly, focus on one compelling degree of index. Community attention.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 9, 2009
Amazon, the mind, cloud consciousness and the making of place. Earlier in my life, I was under training, in languages (German, at the time), with Thomas Bunnell, SJ. I actually went there, with him, to a monastic seminary — to practice and study the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 8, 2009
Cloud mind: the metaphor of fluent vapor — the clouded allegory in the context of computing, burgeoning creative, a multiplicity of minds: amassed. “A person using cumular language would say that a universal negative is upset not only by predication of... Read More