Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Brand, storytelling, presentation and spectacle: Steve Jobs
"Steve Jobs 1955-2011" by segagman is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Exemplars of Apple Messaging and Brand Product Events: Theatricality and entertainment marketing strategy in the presentation of ideas. Being one whose livelihood is wholly built on the premise of relevant...
Notes on brand, strategy, story and hybrid messaging
Brand strategy exploration: Yves Saint Laurent | Girvin: 2007 For a presentation on entrepreneurship, branding and emotional content to the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GIRVIN'S FOCUS has been directed to the concept of brand development and innovation...
Exploring Personal Brand Development | The Human Brand and the Search for Meaning
Every brand is designed by a human; and built for a human, yet we don't often think of ourselves as living brands. The notion of branding is based on premises that are thousands of years old; it's less about the proposition of being merely a business enactment and...
Brand Instinct: The human sense of connection in community
Studying the context of intuition in branding When we've had the opportunity to explore the notions of testing -- locally, nationally, internationally, even in micro-community and localized interceptions -- it's interesting to consider what is sensed, in the testing,...
Brandspirit: The Ancient Concept of Ch’i in the Design of Identity
The study of the Sixth Century Legacy of Hsieh Ho "Energy is eternal delight". William Blake Earlier in my career, decades back, I was exposed to the study of classical Chinese art theory and its applications to art, architecture and spiritual principles. This was...
Art Wolfe | Exploring a human brand of curiosity, discovery, love
Art Wolfe | Wikipedia imagery file Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The brand that is a living, loving being. Art Wolfe and I go way back -- decades; but my personal relationship with him goes back further -- into the recesses of my younger years,...
Wired Magazine | Part 3: Chris Anderson | Free!
I'd been prepping myself to connect with Chris Anderson, since I'd worked remotely on the cover. Seattle | San Francisco | NYC. I keep jumping. The work's there -- I work anywhere that I need to. Find something, work on it. Go there. Nice person, Chris Anderson is,...
The OED: "brandish" — Brand as fire
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, Paula Rees. She's a placemaker. Her focus is, and has...
Martin Lindstrom
Martin Lindstrom 3.4.08 Human branding, the brand: human. If ever there was a person that had created a brand presence around his very embodiment, it would surely have to be Martin Lindstrom. Still, given the experience -- and the expertise -- of his global wandering...
Charles Eames
I was thinking about things floating, ideas that are on one level, then another. And that idea of the interconnection of the idea on the surface, and the idea beneath. "The details are not details. They make the product." So says, Charles Eames. So you might be...