Search results for: brand belief
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Sep 14, 2010
Holistic brands: Tabasco and the nature of geographic reference. Brands with a story that are linked to place. I’m looking for True Brands. What I seek is: A story. A person. An offering. Integrity in the making. Care fullness — in the distribution. And a legacy that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 1, 2009
The pursuit of comfort: contentment during uncomfortable times Working on the brand revolution of Cinnabon, our research focused on finding what was missing, in the heart of the brand, retail experience and relationship management. Actually, there wasn’t any.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Mar 23, 2009
Art Wolfe | Wikipedia imagery file The brand that is a living, loving being. Art Wolfe and I go way back — decades; but my personal relationship with him goes back further — into the recesses of my younger years, being in the ramshackle melange otherwise... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Places, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2009
The concept of the personal brand, in place – what makes a city’s identity? Spending time traveling, as I have now, for the last three weeks straight, I’m now coming to the positioning of questioning my own identity, in the whirring of place. Where... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 3, 2010
Examining the idea of brand, signature and personality I was thinking about the idea of hand-writing and the character of the person. By a typical extrapolation, I’d liken the brand to the human — in the warmed sense that brand is more than merely the skin... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 10, 2011
(iPhoneZenBrush) THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | Part two Doodles, scribbles, mapping and documentation: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and creative brand business applications for the iPad People fire brands — brands are created by people for people... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 5, 2009
Merchandising, adventure, love of work. Some might call it flow, the idea of doing something that you really love, all the time. There are people like that that I’ve met — they just flow, in the happiness of the practice. What I wonder about is the concept... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 3, 2009
Seattle Theatre Group’s Celebration of the Arts, in a Newly Defined Event Modeling: Doorways for everyone. During these times, the present financial travails, there are challenges to virtually every institution — regardless of the scale, the import of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 21, 2016
The Quest for Soulful Places As a designer, I find that the work on converting spaces to more meaningful places, which more often than not has to do with the very journey of what soul is supposed to be. Soul is a ancient seed sound — a voicing — for sea, and the point... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Dec 4, 2014
Design Mysticism When you go deep. As a designer, you might meditate on your work, what you’re doing. And your being in that doing. There might be a brand strategy, and the unfolding character of tactics and deployment. But making marks is a legacy that is thousands... Read More