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by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts | Nov 21, 2009
Dominic Favre/European Pressphoto Agency Examining the idea of art, branding and passage Being one that focuses the symbolic character of design, and branding, I note with sadness the passage of Jean-Claude, the long-running partner of Christo. Theirs was an especial... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 9, 2009
Marketing apocalypse, branding oblivion I’ve been studying some thematic elements in Russian society — a sense of myth, Slavic legend and a kind of genetic leaning in the personality of Eastern European storytelling — and, of course, how that relates... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures | May 13, 2008
Exploring brand in context — from the comical imagination to the full screen. Storyboarding: There’s been a lot of discussion about the movement in legacy from comical development to full screen adaptation. There are some symbolic moves in that grouping of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Retail | Nov 21, 2019
50 YEARS, WALKING THE DREAM, BRAND STORYTELLING VISIONING IN THE MAN, THE BRAND: RALPH LAUREN This goes back, and it speaks to my own history at the beginnings of my career, which now sorts out to about 45 years. There was a meet-up, momentary and gracious, with Mr.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Trends | Jul 18, 2018
THE QUEST FOR SOUL IN TECH MARKETING. [above image by @dacarc] In the legacy of brand — strategy, design and the tactical implications of reach, expansion and expressionism, the exploration into brand and its etymology implies the quest for fire. Brand, as a seed... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Luxury, Retail | Jan 12, 2017
There is a time, in the momentum of a moment, when a cycle returns; there is a flash of discovery, and that patterning of illumination returns, when your journey, as experiencer cycles back to reveal itself again to the watchful — what goes around, comes around. But,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Trends | Aug 25, 2016
IN SEARCH OF THE SKULL: THE FLAME, THE ROD | DON ED HARDY AND VON DUTCH Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Luxury, Retail | Dec 27, 2007
Susan DeChillo | The New York Times I first met Steve Jobs in the 80s. Actually, it was at Stanford. He was there, speaking. And I was there, listening. Afterwards, I went up to introduce myself. And we went from there. I worked on the Macintosh launch and technology... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Places, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2012
Any restaurant brand follows a sequence of dream, to visioned story, a name — articulation in space, made to place. Space = cavitation + emptiness, silence and aloneness. Place = warmth / humanity / beauty + containment / story [and possibly: spectacle] Our... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Scent | Jan 21, 2011
www.AndreaMaack.com The smells of stone, fire, snow and the sea — the perfume of Iceland: I walk the fragranced way. Every corridor, is a sequencing of scent. Every road, an avenue of smell. Each pathway, the censed notation. I do dream about the crossing guard... Read More