by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 7, 2021
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE AS A BRAND EXPLORATION THERE IS A STORYTELLING IN CAVES: HOW OLD THEY ARE, THE RIVERS RUNNING THROUGH THEM, THE JOURNEY THAT THE BRAND JOURNEYER TAKES, GETTING SOMEWHERE—INTO THE DARK, DISCOVERING SELF AND THEN OUT INTO THE LIGHT. AS WE GO...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 1, 2021
DESIGN AND RISK EVERY DESIGN REACH IS A RISK, IT TAKES COURAGE TO ADVANCE FROM ASKING QUESTIONS AND LISTENING TO OFFERING SOLUTIONS. THE GAUNTLET THROWN TO THE WORK IS THAT—IN ANY JOURNEY—THERE IS RISK. You’re presuming that you—brand person, design researcher,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 14, 2021
EVERYONE HAS A CHALLENGING TIME. “WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT TIME?” How do you get through that? There are a couple of pathways for me. Reading is one— reading, a lot. Another is drawing—in two pathways of work; one: more as in a non-thinking fluency-based form of...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places | Jun 23, 2021
Working in Asia, as well as other parts of the planet, particularly in emerging economies, the notion of tinier living environments is well implemented—needfully so. Big living environments are—everywhere—far more costly and mostly less efficient than smaller...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | May 5, 2021
When I see things, invariably I smell them. When I touch things, I smell them. It’s a curiosity trait—it’s one thing to see things, it’s another to touch them, still another to taste them, or hear them. It might be said that the obvious jump is anatomical sensory...
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Concepts | Apr 14, 2021
WHEN I CONTEMPLATE BRANDS, THEIR RECOGNITION, IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT EMOTION AND MEMORY: “I KNOW THAT BRAND, IT’S RED.” OR IT’S BLUE, VERMILION, OR YELLOW. MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT’S UNFORGETTABLE. COLOR, OF COURSE, IS A KEY MNEMONIC. Working with a team recently, we were...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 3, 2021
IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT FLOWERS—THAT, FOR PEOPLE, IS ATTRACTIVE—AS IT IS FOR BEES AND OTHER INSECTS? SOME NOTES ON THE SYMBOLISM OF FLOWERS. As we all know, various flowers have symbolic virtues— the rose stands for something, the lily, another. But I’m curious about...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 26, 2021
THE STRIDE THAT GOES FORWARD COULD BE FROM 4000 YEARS AGO. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE TEND TO RECALL MESSAGES IN THE CONTEXT OF POETIC ALLITERATIONS? I WRITE THAT WAY, THINK THAT WAY, IN THE STRINGING OF REPETITIVE CONSONANTS—IT IS A FRAMING FOR MESSAGES THAT FLOWS IN THE...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Feb 10, 2021
The Emotional Construct Of Brand Experience: The Wow Moment. CAPTURING WOW IN BRAND MANEUVERS Feelingness? You know the sensation, the moment of wow, which sets into play a kind of cascading—“wow, isn’t that something?” And, hopefully, it keeps going as—“will you look...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Feb 3, 2021
PURPOSEFUL EXPERIENCE DESIGN STRATEGIES, COUPLED WITH INTENTIONALITY. WHEN THERE’S NO PLACE TO GO, WHAT IS THE EXPERIENCE? AMBITIONS IN DESTINATION | RESTAURANT DESIGN STRATEGIES Now’s the time for many that experiences are home bound and under locked-down scenarios,...
