Tag Archives: experience

March 31, 2012

Howard Schultz: The spin of the human brand, foundations and visioning, too far flung?

Howard Schultz: The spin of the human brand, foundations and visioning, too far flung? Starbucks | Store one | a block from Girvin’s Pike Place Market offices The spirit of the impassioned leader or founder speaks from the heart, which can drive everything, … Continue reading →

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March 26, 2012

Ridley Scott, the TED brand, Alien and the quest for Prometheus

Powerful ideas, invention and brand re-alignments, newly imagined. I’m looking for surprise, beauty, spectacle — designing it, looking at it, seeing it, extending that story — the telling of it.

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December 14, 2011

THE LONG ROAD

While you’re looking out, traveling the distant vista — a long road, the living running — the journey shall continue. And who said it would be easy? Craft, in the making of anything, building the outbound relationships to people, in … Continue reading →

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September 23, 2011

What’s OK? Keep At It.

Being a teacher, there’s the line in the sand — the pass: it’s okay; the fail: it’s not. It is the yes, the no — it’s alright; it’s not. Being a strategist, a designer, a writer, plying the work of … Continue reading →

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September 16, 2011

ENERGIZE

Energy, focus, attention, connection – what is the energy that’s set, on the context of driving forward; uncovering the new? That is personal. That’s brand. That is human; that’s enterprise. “energy is eternal delight” — it is the captivation of … Continue reading →

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September 11, 2011

MEDITATIONS ON PLACE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001

2001 | Girvin photo journal, September: NYC MEDITATIONS ON PLACE AND THE PROFUNDITY OF SENSE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001 ––––––––––––– The sight of scene unknowing and the scented perfume of dissolution It was a couple of weeks after 9.11.2001 that … Continue reading →

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September 9, 2011

You Smell Marvelous

What is the nature of the perfected marvel, in scent? Really — you smell marvelous? I got a note from Barneys New York. It was really about Byredo — I’d made some notes about them earlier. Y O U   S … Continue reading →

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September 6, 2011

Ma | Drawing nothingness

The concept of the interval: the use of space in design I think about what is presence. And I consider, what is absence? What is here — easily seen; and what is next? What is the interval? What converts moment … Continue reading →

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September 1, 2011

Mercy, Merci: Catchable Resonance | Merchandising Enthusiasm

WORKING IN PARIS, I’VE BEEN STRUCK BY THE CHARISMA OF PARISIAN RETAIL DESIGN, STORY, PASSION. THERE IS A SENSE OF LIVELY EXPERIENCE IN EXPERIMENT. EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE — how can you build a retail concept that might be simply built in … Continue reading →

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August 24, 2011

THE HEART OF THE BRAND | STORE ONE

Starbucks, Pike Place Market — the beginnings of a branded world. A brand becomes a world: (tenet, intention, cult and culture, community and audience: engagement + embracement = enchantment). This world, built and evolving — founded on the inspiration of … Continue reading →

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