by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | May 4, 2011
Girvin These are the days of experiments: everywhere, everytime. And great ideas, inspirations, and answers — coupled with the wisdom of experience — can click in an instant. See something, react to inception, go forward. Sensing is big — yet what is...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 24, 2011
What do you know? The mystery of mind, message and meaning. I was thinking about that question — someone asked me: “well, what’cha know?” And I contemplated the depth of the question. It’s just as powerful as “what’s your...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 14, 2010
Exploring the detailed visioning of leadership in brand management. This article appeared in the June 2010 issue of Arcade | Architecture and Design in the Northwest. Fire. BRANDFIRE | A culture of passion What lies beneath I think we need to be thinking about our...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 29, 2009
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,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Nov 22, 2009
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...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 11, 2009
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...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 24, 2009
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...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General, Storytelling | Mar 23, 2009
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...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation | Jan 30, 2008
In a way, this story is about shifting brand visioning. And it’s early enough, for this story, this client — that I can’t really reference the brand name. But people ask, what is it like — what do you do? What happens? Brand development and the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 25, 2008
I’m always looking back. But never staring. All ways looking. In all ways — exploring. Looking deeper. And in way, that’s something to the way the we work, we think. Look deep. Go further. Be in: their there. Where they are. What that means is doing...