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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 3, 2011
Girvin | Rodarte The story on the story in the story — human | brand layering: passion, fire, color, sensation, context and meaning. There is the seen surface; and there is what lies beneath — in shadow, use, care, overlay and redrawing. Palimpsest... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Places | Apr 22, 2011
Core Values | Sweden — could they be designed? THE QUESTION IS, CAN THE VALUES OF A COUNTRY BE COALESCED INTO AN EFFECTIVE BRAND STRATEGY, THAT THE ENTIRE MARKETING ENTERPRISE — AS WELL AS TOURISTIC AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES — ADHERE TO COLLECTIVELY?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 29, 2010
Exploring the word, the history, the meaning of infectious content. It’s interesting to me to look into the context of the framing of language; and it’s not an infrequent comment to me – “is that a real word?” I will confess to sometimes... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers, Luxury, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Nov 30, 2008
Saying goodbye at the Majorelle Gardens. I did gesture to good bye, at his passing, along with, of course, millions of others — June | 2008. And most of the designers of significance on the planet: http://www.wwd.com/au_revoir_yves And, that closing in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 28, 2016
I’m looking for paths. The turning — Every thing turns and spins in its order. What? That? I’ve been out, looking at the stars, pondering the turning — and now, the great waves, that roar and roll, persistently. Listening to the water — the turning and churning, waves... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2015
What is the way, found? I was thinking about this. In the context of the work that you do. And what we do. I’ve wondered about that, the character of being lost, being found. Finding your way. And there’s a part of the work that we do that is just about that — helping... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 25, 2015
Design as a Transportive Tool ––––––– We’ve talked about sigils. Most of you might know about the sigil as a House Seal in the Game of Thrones. And I’ve written long about them — the sigil, the signal, the signature, the signing. I reach back to my childhood for the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 30, 2015
SIGNAGE, MESSAGING, SCALE AND BEAUTY. I’m not saying that we’ve not designed massive signage. We have, we’ve created signing that can be seen for miles. Yes, Vegas. And other places. But what I admire are more elegantly restrained solutions. What one might think are... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | May 6, 2015
The Draft of Knowing — Stroke on Stroke, Journey to Journey, Line to Lineage. [a b o v e] Presentation wall, with calligraphic drawings and educational references, photographic brand boards, working tools, broadsides and flow examples. [FIRST POSTED 2010] A couple of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Apr 14, 2015
THE MOST EXPENSIVE PERFUME IN THE WORLD A happier scent. It might be said that the most valuable perfume there could be would be your personal scent — the layering of molecular expressions that gather everything from your being, your roadwork, scenes seen — the way... Read More
