Search results for: brand-instinct
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 | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Places, Storytelling | Sep 3, 2013
Exploring Creative Place | Design, Teams, Innovation BIG ARCHITECTURE|DESIGN | NYC Traveling the world, as a designer, if one is so motivated, studying working environments, culture and vibe should be part of the practice of seeing into how design thinking happens.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jun 30, 2021
IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE? OR IS IT A BURGEONING STORM? THE BRILLIANT, SCINTILLANT IDEA EMERGES AS A BREEZE—A SOFT TELLING, THEN THAT SHALL BECOME A WIND-RIVEN ROAR. There’s a question—the how of inspired idea[l]s—which could come as a lightning... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 1, 2021
DESIGN AND RISK EVERY DESIGN REACH IS A RISK, IT TAKES COURAGE TO ADVANCE FROM ASKING QUESTIONS AND LISTENING TO OFFERING SOLUTIONS. THE GAUNTLET THROWN TO THE WORK IS THAT—IN ANY JOURNEY—THERE IS RISK. You’re presuming that you—brand person, design researcher,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 14, 2007
I had the chance to listen to Tom Ford, and to meet him, at a CEO Summit for WWD | Beauty | Miami. Nice man. Incredibly articulate thinker, as well. And this was, formally, before the announcement of the Tom Ford brand. Shirin Von Wulffen, a person I worked with at... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands | Jan 17, 2024
When I was young, my Mother belonged to a Jungian Study Group—she, and a group of colleagues, friends and professionals would meet to explore Jung’s theories. What I took from this—in my pre-teen years–was that there was something interesting there, if they were... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Storytelling | Feb 6, 2023
L I S T E N T O T H E L I N K S I was talking to a client about music [brand experientiality]—the magnetic nature of the melodic narrative and, intimately, the human attribute of the swing of musical cadence, the ebullience of its expression in the context of human... Read More