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08*08*08 | Incense, Perfume, Chinese Branding & the Olympics

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Luxury, Scent, Trends | May 19, 2008

Meditations on the history of scent, the smoky bridge to good fortune, and luxury in prosperity in Chinese Culture There is a sense of the auspicious that wafts in the long, historied halls of China. That, for centuries, there has been a character of wishful...

Experience design in restaurants | Evolutions and explorations in trend and brand storytelling

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | May 11, 2008

Sometime back, after some midtown meetings, I’d been making my way back to the NYC Girvin office. And I came across this treatment for Chipotle, a McDonald’s concept investment. But the point is hardly about the opening collaboration in ownership (founded...

The Skull, the Flame, the Rod | Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008

Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,...

Light Patterning, Shadow & Reflection in Story Visualizations

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Places, Trends | May 9, 2008

My friend Dawn Clark, AIA LEED®AP, Principal at NBBJ | Design — sent along this story; digging in, I’ve found more. I’ve written a lot about patterning. Actually, I’m captivated by it. Patterning as a kind of subtle substrate brand messaging,...

Microsoft Surface© | For Motion Picture & Storyboard Visualizations

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | May 4, 2008

Microsoft Surface© interface Some ideas about issues of interface, and the storytelling around the making of a film project, utilizing the nascent Microsoft surface© technology. the sharing, image-shifting capacity of the surface© technology. Films (motion picture and...

Jack Daniels – the Story Behind the Story

by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Apr 24, 2008

Last Wednesday I attended the Seattle chapter of the Executive Women’s International forum http://ewiseattle.org/ at the Columbia Tower (with a spectacular view from the 75th floor). The guest speaker was Ted Simmons, advertising guru and previous CEO of Arnold...

The spirit brand, the brandspirit | His Holiness The Dalai Lama

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Apr 14, 2008

Some notes on the spiritual branding of the principles of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama — and what that means for business, brand development and human capital in culture. Firms of Endearment. I’ve spent the last couple of days walking around the edge of...

Starbucks | Store One & the Pike Place Roast brand strategy

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2008

On the 20th, last month, I’d connected with a friend, Tim Lauren, to explore the Store One | Starbucks, Pike Place Market. We’d met, examining, talking about brand management and experience planning. Tim comes from the space of experience design...

Seeds of Compassion | His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in Seattle

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General | Apr 8, 2008

It started here, http://blog.girvin.com/?p=576, for me, but, there is history: It goes back. And I go back. I can remember the first time that I was exposed to a Tibetan vajrayana teaching presence — a human distillation of Himalayan spirituality. It was Sogyal...

©Murakami | Notes on the arts & crafts movement of the present era

by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 7, 2008

Exploring the principles of art, craft, making and the philosophical vision: Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/ What about Takashi Murakami? “the difference inherent in Japanese and Western artistic practices, and the...
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