by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 19, 2010
Image credit: Matt Hagen Exploring the concept of human branding, foundational leadership, evolution and Seattle BioMed. Working in a long string of partnerships, with founding board members, executive committees and scientists, from the early 2000s, then 2004, then...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail | Feb 18, 2010
Authentic brand simplicity: Frisbee, an American classic The Frisbee was one of those progressively personal, explored brand creations — enthrallments that went from basic object, a toy for a kid; elementary school student, and an obsession of flinging skills;...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Feb 17, 2010
Steve Jobs, iPad and the persona of innovation. In the past, I’ve explored the idea of the human brand, a persona driven organization type that focuses on the character of central leadership in defining brand approaches to enterprise and marketing expression....
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Feb 12, 2010
Observing the passage of the brand, as fire, in the spirit of Alexander Lee McQueen This is the another in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. When I heard of the passage of...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Jan 30, 2010
A series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. I’ve swung in and out of Vogue, with minimal amounts of work to do — precisely from a professional standpoint — with the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Retail, Trends | Jan 27, 2010
Firescript: the hand, the drawing, the gesture and a legacy. I’ve got history on the concept of the tablet. Friends of mine, running hardware design at Microsoft – I told them – what about the idea of showing the art of what this hardware could be?...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Dec 25, 2009
Directing brand design and motion pictures | the framing of storytelling in hybrid contexts Tom Ford | The design of A Single Man It’s no secret that I’ve got an admiration for Tom Ford. Yet, interestingly enough, I only own his fragrances. However, the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 19, 2009
Early counsel: the strategy on brand identity, for one of the best motion picture brand developers in the world. A number of years, back, I had the opportunity to work with James Cameron and his marketing team on the conception of the Abyss. That being, in particular,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Trends | Dec 3, 2009
Examining the principle of integrated marketing, experience design, and the semblance of the sentient. I’d start with this poetic assemblage. Memories reach back. They are the string from the now, to the then. They link where we are, what we are, to what...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Motion Pictures | Nov 20, 2009
Exploring design, art and imagination: motion picture branding, Tim Burton, and the legacy of Girvin identity and cinematic brand design. Tim Burton, MoMa, what a nice idea. As a designer for Tim Burton, I will offer that I never had the chance to meet him, work with...
