Blogs By Tim Girvin
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BrandQuest® Innovations and New Brand Development at Girvin | Strategic Branding
Engaging leadership brand champions: studying the patterning of innovation, the struggle of the paradigm and the modeling of breaking brands free. As a business person, a planner, and a student of enterprise internationally, working on the edge of innovation, I've...
Brand Psyche | Examining brand relationships and human personality profiling
GIRVIN’s Strategic and anthropological brand research in global enterprise, personality, and profile testing. What is the line that moves towards marketing to the psychic space of a person? How do you find the heart of a relationship? Brand to person? Person as brand...
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...