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by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2023
In the quest for finding the soulful intention of human-built enterprises—first there has to be an underpinning of knowledge about these brand systems and their architecture. Their seeds, their planting, the foliation and the nodality of their evolutions. And finally,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts | Mar 4, 2020
THERE’S A BRAND THAT YOU KNOW, ONE THAT IS CLEAR, CLARIFIED—YOU KNOW WHAT IT STANDS FOR. AND THERE IS A BRAND THAT IS FOGGED—IT’S UNCLEAR, VAGUE AND FORMLESS. WHICH DO YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH? What is a brand? It’s a marked enterprise that has a coherent link... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Feb 14, 2019
BUILDING BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: CAUSE MARKETING, HUMANITARIAN BRAND-BUILDING AND CHARITABLE PROMOTIONS. I REALIZED, SOME TIME BACK, WORKING FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE, THAT BUILDING BEAUTIFUL BRANDS, HOLISTICALLY RICH, ROBUST AND BEAUTIFUL, VISUAL AND TEXTUALLY ARTICULATED... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Scent | Dec 13, 2009
Brand scent, experience design, attention and distraction. The Hollister Retail Blast | Soho, NYC. I am perpetually curious about the scent of place. Walking into any environment, I find myself scenting it — then calculating what layers of fragrance might I be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2016
BrandStories That Feel Brandstories in the Construct of Emotionality Earlier in our career, I was asked — in the 90s, to present what we thought was the newest context of brand strategy at Building One, downtown Cincinnati, Procter&Gamble. What we thought then was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 29, 2014
The journey of the answer. Anytime you have an answer, there was a question before. And any question is a quest — it’s a journey, from one place of comprehension, the grip of knowing, to the pathway to a step of insight. And in that in sight, you see in. I... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008
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 been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | May 16, 2023
The game goes on. Forever. Obviously, as the design agency of record for Nintendo, in the legacy of our history of brand design in the 80s-90s, we walked the storytelling from design thinking, gamer trials and testing, briefs from Japan’s designers and the... Read More
by GirvinIT | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 19, 2022
In our experience, brands are—and should be—on a perpetual move, never quiet, always exploring, evolving, tuning and turning to new relationships and communities. And most brands do—with forward thinking leadership, they’re thinking—“we’re missing something here, we... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 18, 2020
THERE’S A PRESUMPTION OF BRAND GATHERING—PEOPLE CLUSTER AROUND BRANDS THAT STAND FOR SOMETHING, THEY HAVE AN INTENTION THAT’S CLEAR—THEIR STANCE IS VISIBLE. That might come down to belief, “I believe in this brand because the story is true; look what they’re doing,... Read More
