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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling | Jan 17, 2023
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, A KEY POINT OF RESONANCE IN BRAND EXPERIENTIALITY* COMES DOWN TO THE HOLISM OF SENSATION. How does it feel? How unforgettable is the holism of your feelings— or your guests feelings—about it? For many of us, that would be what we see—but... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 25, 2022
VISUALIZING INFORMATION AS A STORY In a recent grouping of discussions, with a late 19th century-influenced designer, innovator and color theorist, we talked strategy and the tiering of information—in her brand-building around the presumptions of color gravity: the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts | Feb 24, 2022
THE SIGILLIC SOLUTION In the journey of brand design and identity, there is the high road, the first summit, the easier vista—the outreach of an accessible view and foundational story: “it’s beautiful, so this must be a beautiful brand.” And then there are the deeper... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jan 14, 2022
EARLIER, WORKING WITH BRYAN ALLEN AND NANCY GOLIGER—THE CREATIVE LEADERSHIP AT PARAMOUNT—I WAS ASKED TO ADVANCE THE BRAND IDENTITY STORYTELLING DESIGN AROUND THE FILM “LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER.” 2 We worked on both Angelina Jolie properties, under Simon West’s... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 7, 2024
Seeing stories in Brands, Design and Gesture. As a leader of workshops, and team-related branding sessions, I tend to watch my teams very carefully. My last blog spoke to listening, and appreciative observation— how to study the evidences of emotion in the gestures of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Feb 10, 2021
The Emotional Construct Of Brand Experience: The Wow Moment. CAPTURING WOW IN BRAND MANEUVERS Feelingness? You know the sensation, the moment of wow, which sets into play a kind of cascading—“wow, isn’t that something?” And, hopefully, it keeps going as—“will you look... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 21, 2021
DEFINING PRESENCE, PRESENTATION, AND PARTICIPATION I’m Here. Before You. And I’m Here For You. Contemplating The Context Of Presence—Being In A Place, And Presentation—Having Something To Present, Or Presented To You, And Being In The Place: Listening, It’s That.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Incubation, Storytelling | Dec 16, 2020
BRAND OBSERVATIONS, PARTICIPATION IN WATCHFULNESS. In the past, in my observations of brand experiencers, it has been a long journey—and a string of compelling notations of learnings about people and how they relate to brands. I think back to my beginnings, working on... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 18, 2020
YOU COULD FIND A WAY OUT, THAT COULD BE A WAY IN. I was first struck by this sign that I found in an antiques shop outside of London; and there’s a story—for those calligraphically-inclined—that this font [for the sign] was originally designed [1918] by early... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers | Feb 17, 2020
EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE YOU HAVE AN EXPOSURE TO EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS. PEOPLE THAT SPARK INSPIRATION, AWE AND GRATITUDE, FOR HAVING KNOWN—AND LEARNED FROM—THEM. I think it was more than a decade ago that my one Dawn [Clark] introduced me to “my other Dawn” — as she... Read More