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by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands | Oct 25, 2010
Exploring the conceptions of brand, story and the human presence of healing A 400 year old story, the alchemy of healing Over the course of the last number of months, I’ve been working — along with the team at Girvin, Norman G. Jones and Premchit Prateap... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People | Jan 5, 2009
Björk, the venture capital of the imagination. Björk “I will not be able to live with my own conscience when my grandchildren drive around Iceland and it’s just full of factories and smelters.” -Björk My first connection with Björk was through the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 18, 2016
BEARING YOUR SOUL DIGGING IN FOR THE SOUL OF BRANDS I was writing a piece, earlier today, on the concept of baring — that idea of revealing, versus the other similarly sounding expression of bearing — which is more like “carrying” something. To bare, to lay open,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Places, Trends | Nov 19, 2012
Doing good, as a contributor to community, in design — could be “helping me, helping you.” How would you improve life in NYC? How can you help? Anywhere? As a pro bono designer? There’s nothing [as it seems to me, these days] as challenging as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 18, 2010
Tim Girvin and Jack Larsen, at his Park Avenue Studio A fashion archetype, reconsidered. I was relieved to hear that the bow tie is coming back. Somewhere around ten years back I’d moved past that detail — the suit, the oxford shirt, the bow tie. That was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Dec 1, 2021
IN THE JOURNEY OF BRAND DESIGN, IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO MEANING, MEMORY AND SENSATION. We’ve been working around the brand frontline for 4.5 decades. There are a string of alignments that emanate from that succession that are the core questions that always come to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Sep 20, 2017
IF YOU BELIEVE IN BRANDING — THAT AN OBJECT HAS MORE POWER AS A BRANDED ENTITY, THEN WHY WOULD THAT BE SO? There is belief at the heart of it. You believe, you love. It’s what you believe in as a brand agent, and what your audiences believe in as participants and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People, General | Sep 20, 2009
Creativity, Dance, Business and You An event, benefiting the Seattle Dance Project Group, The Ruins, Seattle. 9/27/09 1.00pm-4.00pm. There’s a distinct alignment between the spiritual principles of dance and the living life of brand development. If we quickly... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 26, 2009
Exploring the construct of brand, community, enterprise and the work that we do. I’ve been a designer for a long time; and working in the creative space is in my blood. My mother was a painter, an artist in every sense of the world, the word. My father is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Dec 2, 2008
Exploring integrative identity and developmental work on the House of Orange, Valentino, Bardessono and Harvey Nichols | Jakarta — logo story in brandplace and other case studies. There’s an implication in the current realm of testing behavorial study,... Read More
