Search results for: brand belief
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 20, 2015
LEGENDARY CULTURES AND BRANDING: LEGACY BRANDS WITH SOUL Brands with soul, brands that tell authentically-founded stories, true brands that people care about. Are they invented, built, restored, or managed as a legacy? All of these, and more. LEGEND BRANDING: What is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 12, 2024
There’s a word that GIRVIN uses as a way to define the thoughtful design of brands in the context of a 360º sentience—experientiality. It’s a spherical watchfulness—in one classical reference, keep your “head on a swivel, watch your six” way of approaching a place,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 9, 2016
STRATEGIES OF INTENTION AND ATTENTION IN BRAND-BUILDING COMMUNICATIONS Find Brand Heart: The Resonance, Brand Relevance and The Clustering of Relationships — the three indices of connectivity and community Brands have to matter to be unforgettable. Given the flooding... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 20, 2008
I’ve been looking for truth. I’m looking for truth in my self — what do I do, in practicing what I tell, preach, to others. And telling the truth in the reign of the firm — what we do, what we offer, and how we go about doing it, in finding the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Jul 19, 2010
What is the myth, brand storytelling: the legend, the narrative that lies in the heart of the brand proposition? Karl Lagerfeld by Karl Lagerfeld (by Girvin) I was talking to a client about the concept of legendary culture and it set me thinking to the concept of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Feb 23, 2010
Examining the concept of brand books — selling the story, the magazine, that brands own The idea of brands that publish their own books isn’t new. I can recall the early days of Abercrombie & Fitch and some of their wildly outrageous “brand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Retail | Sep 3, 2010
The raven as the icon of black beauty, primordial intelligence, mystery and the old ones. RAVENS AS THE DARK STORYTELLER, THE MYTHIC BLACK RAINBOW. Is the etymology of corvid derived from the ancient Proto-Indo European seed sound kos, for shout? That would seem... 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 | Jun 24, 2014
The Outlook, the Lookout and Looking Out And looking in, to Brand Experience Design. As designers, we’re looking in, and looking out. And in our experience with brand management, it’s never, alone, only the looking in — the insights of inner seeing. But too, it’s the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | May 12, 2021
YOU AND YOUR STUDY OF THE BRAND THAT YOU OWN—WHAT IS YOUR WATCH? EVERY GOOD BRAND AGENT IS ON THE SURVEY FOR ACTION, ANALYSIS, COMMUNITY AND RELATIONSHIPS, TRACTION AND SALES, INTELLIGENCE AND KPIs. S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the... Read More