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 | Concepts, General | Dec 15, 2010
What lies beneath: the nature of the X, the cross road, the crossing guard, the mark of the x and the magic of the nexus. The symbolic allegory of the x mark. When I was in Bali, I surprised by the villagers attention to the white flagged pieces of paper that hanged...
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 | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2009
“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...
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 | Concepts, General | Apr 27, 2009
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....
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Scent | Oct 19, 2007
Scent is the most powerful of the five senses. How can companies use scent to attract customers? How can it be used as a marketing tool? It’s important to think of scent as a kind of layering of experience. For example, scent alone won’t instantly...