Search results for: true brands
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Human brands | Jan 13, 2008
While it might seem profoundly obvious, the brand is inherently human — it’s about people, connecting to other people. People create brands — the notion of a brand DNA is nothing but an explication of the concept of the precisely personal character... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 22, 2013
The Search for Beauty — the Beauty of You, The Brand of You, and Others. In the quest for the truth of brands, the soul and heart of their storytelling — invariably, appropriately, there are humans involved. People make brands — mostly for other... Read More
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, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Jan 30, 2010
A series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. I’ve swung in and out of Vogue, with minimal amounts of work to do — precisely from a professional standpoint — with the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 2, 2014
Brands that give, brands that don’t. I was studying this wall-bound piece of type, and contemplated the unassuming air of its drawing — nothing too formal — outlined then in-filled in a casual, if not happily energetic manner. In the emotionality of typography, the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Mar 25, 2011
Scents that celebrate urban experiences: the innovations of Comme des Garçons (and others) in fragrance concoction; there are fumes that might be called poisonous to some, others that live in the interpretation of city scents, industrially composed and material... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Mar 1, 2009
The line between the story, the visualization, the brand. Story — told. Story — visualized. There’s a thread that runs between the original telling, and the next telling in story — and the next, and the next, and the next. One person tells a... 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 | Brands, Concepts | Nov 9, 2016
STRATEGIES OF INTENTION AND ATTENTION IN BRAND-BUILDING COMMUNICATIONS Find Brand Heart: The Resonance, Brand Relevance and The Clustering of Relationships — the three indices of connectivity and community Brands have to matter to be unforgettable. Given the flooding... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 24, 2016
The cartography of brandfire: the story of highest road, the path of the middle story told, and the cumulus of the multiple tales — the grounding ley-line of the promise — the mission of the everyday. I’d offer a theory of the narrative cloud — the stories that... Read More