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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Feb 10, 2021
The Emotional Construct Of Brand Experience: The Wow Moment. CAPTURING WOW IN BRAND MANEUVERS Feelingness? You know the sensation, the moment of wow, which sets into play a kind of cascading—“wow, isn’t that something?” And, hopefully, it keeps going as—“will you look... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, Interior Design, Luxury, Places, Retail | Feb 7, 2022
HERITAGE BRAND DESIGN AND SYSTEMIC PATTERNING More than four and a half decades ago, 1976, I pitched the idea of integrative branding to the Creative Director at Nordstrom, Dan Holland, and I presented again—this same thematic strategy, later to Claudia Milne, then... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | May 6, 2020
YOU ARE A LONE JOURNEYER? YOU ARE ALL ONE. YOU ARE THE ONE: THE ONLY, THE LONELY, THE ONE OF MANY. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– There’s a one—you, the only of your kind; there is the one of your group—the group of one, one’s group. There is your clan—there’s only... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 6, 2015
Brands that are deep. In my journeys in meeting with brand leadership around the world, I watch for telling signs — the tell of a brand might be: How does the leader talk to their colleagues? Humane, cordial, supportive? How old, or new, is this brand? Is there a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 20, 2011
Bergdorf Goodman designing the street — where legendary windows own the sidewalks. I reached to former CEO, Dawn Mello — the retail legend, a friend in NYC. And my other “Dawn” pal. Dawn is a rare breed — a kind of perfected myth of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design | Jun 20, 2011
Sensations in Experience (Design) In working through a series of materials for a new retail concept, it was interesting to see the preponderance of materials that lusted after the slickest vocabulary of finish. Easy to clean. But, to the nature of soul in (brand)... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General, Scent | Oct 30, 2009
Tom Ford in Tokyo. Photo By Akiko Sameshima Exploring the human brand, story, product development, scent and visioning. Obviously, I’ve got a thing with Tom Ford. There are layers there. One, meeting him, talking to him, interviewing him — and learning... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 20, 2009
Exploring brand, story, reconnection in community 10 | 1909 > 10 | 2009 There are a variety of moves, to the motion | notion of celebration in the anniversary of actions in legacy. An anniversary can be a month, a half year, a year, or two, five, ten, twenty five,... Read More
