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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 28, 2017
CONCEPTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS OF INTIMACY: BRAND LOVE-MAKING? What’s the path for engagement? How does a brand move from enchantment, to engagement, to the interlacing of embracement? What is the way that people hold on to the storytelling of a brand in a manner that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | May 24, 2017
Thinking processes for experience design strategy and deployment During the 1990-early 2000s, I spent time working with the Disney Imagineers and Park Strategists at Disneyland — designing experiences, brands and their integrated strategies in Orlando and Anaheim. As... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 19, 2017
BRANDISH — THE WAVE AND FLOURISH OF BRAND The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Dawn A. Clark.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Mar 31, 2017
CREATING AN ALPHABETIC CODE THAT BRIDGES THE DIGITAL WORLD OF THE MATRIX Most know about our history on The Matrix, it began with a call, 19 years ago. The agent from Warner Brothers offered that Joel Silver wanted me in his offices, the following morning, to talk to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 7, 2017
THE LEAP, THE JUMP TO RISK The Grand Canyon There is a path of the straight and narrow. And there is a path of an unexpected roadway. You can take either, depending on your expectation of outcome. There is an easy way, and there is another, that breaks the normal... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Jan 24, 2017
ROSHI HARADA SHODO THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF STORYTELLING IS LISTENING. Sometime back, I drove up to Mukilteo, took the ferry across to Whidbey Island, and at 3.00pm had tea with the Zen Master, Sōgenji Abbot, Roshi Harada Shodo. I had been introduced to him at a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Trends | Jan 17, 2017
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. The seal and the signet. I reach back... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 10, 2017
THE ALLEGORY OF THE DEEP WAVE, THE WATCH, THE BOARD, THE TREND AND THE CURL. Some know that I have a persistent fascination — an engagement — with large expressions of salt water and where she comes from — the Deep Sea. My first exposure to waves was when I was about... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 22, 2016
SIGNING A BRAND: BRAND SIGNATURES, HUMAN HANDWRITING AND ATTRIBUTION Examining the idea of brand, signature and personality I was thinking about the idea of hand-writing and the character of the person. By a typical extrapolation, I’d liken the brand to the human — in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 17, 2016
Identity, Story & Experience Design What is the game but a microcosm of life’s journey — and play but a perspective of living life in the fullness of a self-made, self-perceived adventure into the realm of the fantastical, the mystical and the magical? Live large,... Read More