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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Sep 1, 2015
Spell-binding and the Magic of Nomenclature Strategies of Naming The Naming of Things THE MYSTICAL ROOTS OF THE GATHERING — AND CALLING — OF NAMES. What is your name? I can speak it not. Name me, and you hold my power. An ancient principle of vocalization... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail | Aug 4, 2015
The Individuation of You-ness, Brand Assets, Persona and Personality. When one contemplates the journey of a brand, a team and the enterprises of their making, a sense of the you emerges. Quest – that journey, is a question, that lays the foundation for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 5, 2015
I LIKE TO BE TOUCHED. And I like to touch. Just one way to sense is to touch. In having a conversation with one, I find that a touch is a way to link to someone in a different way — it’s a bond that will take the track of a discussion from one tack to another. Touch —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 28, 2014
There is a sign, and beneath that sign is another sign. Brands and palimpsest, the layers of content. When I was working in Paris, I marveled at the old shopfronts and the signing on signing — a new sign, on an old sign. You’ve seen them in your town. An old sign... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jun 4, 2008
Brand, personality, context and visualization in the community of politics. If there’s a visioning — and a vision — what does it look like, what does it feel like and what do you care? What’s the story, anyway? Over the course of the last... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Luxury, Scent, Trends | May 19, 2008
Meditations on the history of scent, the smoky bridge to good fortune, and luxury in prosperity in Chinese Culture There is a sense of the auspicious that wafts in the long, historied halls of China. That, for centuries, there has been a character of wishful... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2008
Store one: Pike Place Market: It’s clear that Howard Schultz is loved, given the rousing support he received at the shareholder’s conference, this past week in Seattle. Even k.d. lang was there, savoring the melange of several thousand people, singing out.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 27, 2014
THE LEGEND OF CULT AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF CULTURE In an engaged manner, culture appeals most inherently to the idea of cultivation. A metaphor of gardens, flowering and nurturing growth. In the cultural revolution of the world inside brands, the longest shadow from... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 1, 2013
WHAT IF YOU’RE THE BRAND? We’ve written a lot about the brand of you. The truth of the brand will lie in the journey; in exploring any brand, our path is journey — what route has it been, what telling to the past, the present, the future? That goes... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 10, 2013
Exploring the heart and soul of brand, story and personality There’s a journey in getting to the heart of brand, and in a manner, it will be about finding the light that lies at the end of that voyage, or in the center of that conclave. I’m always looking... Read More
