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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Jan 5, 2016
Sometimes the best path Is the slow and watchful. Recently, I’ve been asked to design some signs — which, on a remote road, ask kindly: “Please Go Slower.” Sometimes in the planning of strategy, for your life, brands and other enterprises — striking out the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 29, 2015
The Walk of the Early Morning — look out. An earlier meditation: I was out walking, just dawn, the southern shoreline — at the southernmost reach of the United States. Stars loom and gyrate on the bounding arc of Heaven. Tide churns. An oceanic river, flows. Out... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 10, 2015
Capturing Ideas and Design Journeys iPad: Drafting creativity | Brand Cartography (iPhoneZenBrush) DIGITAL NOTEMAKING: THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING Doodles, scribbles, mapping and documentation: Brandquesting®, brand navigation and creative brand business... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Sep 3, 2015
The Brand, the Mind, the Memory Cloud mind: the metaphor of fluent vapor — the clouded allegory in the context of computing, burgeoning creative, a multiplicity of minds: amassed. Everywhere, the process of strategy, design and brand is an intermixture of allegory,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | May 20, 2015
The Tool, the Allegory, the Legend I’ve been using hammers. And collecting old hammers. Have you tried working with multiple hammers, their wood and metal shafts, their weighted mallet heads, explored how they work? The weight, the heft, the swing, the balance, the... 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 | Brands, Concepts | Mar 5, 2015
WHAT IS: “A NICE DAY?” Nice is one of those tough words, that’s so vague and so commonly used enough that it made me ponder — “what’s that mean?” In my own journey, I live in a place of perpetual curiosity about words and meaning. I listen to what people... 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 | Concepts, Places, Retail, Scent | May 8, 2014
The Design of Fragrances From The Forest Sometimes, it’s a ritual. A gathering of clans, spirits, prayers and reaching to another place, the plane of the unseen. Sometimes, it’s just fire, smoke and the vapors of translation — from woods and grasses... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Apr 14, 2008
Some notes on the spiritual branding of the principles of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama — and what that means for business, brand development and human capital in culture. Firms of Endearment. I’ve spent the last couple of days walking around the edge of... Read More