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...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 25, 2015
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. I reach back to my childhood for the...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2015
The quest for the magical — in craft, design, business strategies and brand. In a manner, the work that we all do is a quest — the pursuit of a question to be answered, the pathway to a question contained, opened and discovered. What we all do, and what we craft as...
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2014
Brandspirit and the building of spiritual and mystical brands What is the shadow brand, and what is the brand of light? For a long time, it’s been said — “you can’t use that word ‘spiritual’ around business people, it will scare...