Search results for: brand storytelling
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | May 2, 2011
Girvin The nature of design strategy, thinking and consumer engagement I was talking with a team international brand development people, for a project initiation — the challenge focused on the discussion of relevance. Literally — for this brand, this idea,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Jul 13, 2009
Human brands | the spirit of brand development in the context of cause related marketing There is something to the travails of the human condition in communicating the benefits of solutions that many organizations attempt to express, in terms of the uplift that they... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 28, 2017
CONCEPTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS OF INTIMACY: BRAND LOVE-MAKING? What’s the path for engagement? How does a brand move from enchantment, to engagement, to the interlacing of embracement? What is the way that people hold on to the storytelling of a brand in a manner that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 6, 2016
Drawing Zen: Enso — Brush drawn Circles of Enlightenment. The strokes of concentration — markings and meaning. For more than 25 years I’ve been collecting zenga. Specifically, this collection is comprised of enso, brush-stroked entities of contemplation and the quest... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail | Jun 23, 2016
SHELF EPIPHANY, RETAIL DESIGN, BRAND STORYTELLING AND SHINING SURPRISES ––––––––––––– I was talking to a client about the concept of the shine. When a product, the shelf on which it resides, the store in which it lives — shines — what is that like, that light? Walking... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Sep 1, 2008
Several years ago I got a call from Paramount Studios to work on a project for JJ Abrams. I’d never heard of him, embarrassingly enough. Nancy Goliger, EVP of Advertising, told me to check out his TV shows, “Lost” and “Alias”. I watched... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 28, 2015
A Person, a Presence, a Brand I was working outside of the city, treasure-hunting. Actually, I was working inside a brand, their teams, looking for treasure — those glimmering and glistening points of compassed reference, the surveilled pin-pricks of a brand mapping,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Jun 26, 2014
Could you go slow? In the incipient need for speed that rattles through the channels of our experience, could that potentially be slowed way down? To see and sense more? Take a moment. When I travel, working on brands around the world, I try to come into a place slow.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General | Jun 2, 2008
Exploring brand, story and legacy — what is the story and who cares about it? Who cares? I do! And millions of others. And most of the designers of significance: http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/au-revoir-yves-1560220/ Decades ago, working in my... Read More
