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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 20, 2009
Who do you trust? Facebook search engine results? Your friend’s a brand. Google has long been the apex of search mechanisms, beating out the rivals of Yahoo, and still, so too, emergent entity bing.com. But Google has its sights on the social space, such as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 26, 2009
Jorge Colombo | cover illustration, the New Yorker, June 2009 Starting at the beginning, the mouse, the magic, the drawn and the digital. Of course, really, it all starts here, in drawing — the touch of the fingers, with insight, interpretation and meditation.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 15, 2007
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It’s interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Luxury, Trends | Aug 12, 2007
There are some that believe that luxury’s rocking – it’s just one big booming affair. But where in the world is it rocking? There are others, particularly more fluent to the history and movement of luxury brand(s) in Asia that see a potential turning... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | Jul 31, 2024
The Strategy and Design of Mystically-Inspired Brands In our history, we’ve had a string of opportunities to collaborate with brand partners who are different in their visioning of their enterprises— rather than focusing, for typical partners, on the notion of “how... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 20, 2022
INSPIRATIONS FOR CREATIVE ACTION, MESSAGING AND DESIGN | THE DEEP STORYTELLING OF THE SEA When I was a child, growing up in Spokane, there would be the occasional parental inquiry—“it’s time for the Opera—a vacation, and where would you like to go?” I had an answer,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands | May 12, 2021
YOU AND YOUR STUDY OF THE BRAND THAT YOU OWN—WHAT IS YOUR WATCH? EVERY GOOD BRAND AGENT IS ON THE SURVEY FOR ACTION, ANALYSIS, COMMUNITY AND RELATIONSHIPS, TRACTION AND SALES, INTELLIGENCE AND KPIs. S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Motion Pictures | Sep 2, 2020
THE QUEST AND THE QUESTIONING OF BRAND: ITS PLACE, THE EXPERIENCE AND TOWARDS INTENTION AND DIRECTION. IT LIES IN THE JOURNEY FOR SOLUTIONS, CREATIVE PATHFINDING, CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHY, AND SOLUTION CONSTRUCTION In everyone’s life, there’s a quest to find answers to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Places, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2020
The Ecology of the Forest as an allegory for community, audiences and customers. We spend a lot of time studying people—watching them, listening to them and studying them in use contexts wrapped around brands. We look at how people use things, bring brands into their... Read More
