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Blog: *EXPERIENTIALITY: HOLISTIC EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND SENSATIONALISM FOR BRANDED PLACEMAKING

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | May 24, 2017

Thinking processes for experience design strategy and deployment During the 1990-early 2000s, I spent time working with the Disney Imagineers and Park Strategists at Disneyland — designing experiences, brands and their integrated strategies in Orlando and Anaheim. As...

Blog: YVES SAINT LAURENT: A JOURNEY OF DESIGN, SOUL BRAND, STORY AND RETAIL RETELLING

by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Luxury, Retail | Jan 12, 2017

There is a time, in the momentum of a moment, when a cycle returns; there is a flash of discovery, and that patterning of illumination returns, when your journey, as experiencer cycles back to reveal itself again to the watchful — what goes around, comes around. But,...

Blog: Closed | The Dead Shopfront

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Places, Retail | Nov 11, 2016

Closed All the Time? The Dead Shopfront Never Open, Shuttered Brands. I was trying to connect with — what I thought was an open resource — a brand, an enterprise, a place, a team of people. Nope. What if you were closed all the time? [Image: a door, Chicago, IL]. I...

Blog: Fast Casual Restaurant Brand Experience Design: Audition and Analysis

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Trends | Oct 27, 2016

ANALYZING HOW [WELL] IT WORKS The spiral of brand experience design: Girvin’s red thread of connective analyses The Analysis of the Context of Place-Making and Food Design Working for decades on the propositions of food experience — from luxury dining to kiosk...

Blog: ARCHETYPES

by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Places, Retail, Trends | Sep 13, 2016

ARCHETYPAL SYMBOLOGY AND THE DESIGN OF PLACE Design thinking and the exploration of deep metaphors When I was working as a brand / design strategist on Procter & Gamble, on brand innovation, I’d partnered with a closely-aligned and roving colleague there, Iain...

Blog: Start-up Wisdom

by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Aug 4, 2016

Start-up Brand Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Wachowski Brothers and Stan Lee. By Tim Girvin — with Social Media commentaries and recommendations by Fletcher Helle When there is a lesson to be learned, listening makes for the best course of cumulative action. Learn and...

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Blog: *EXPERIENTIALITY: HOLISTIC EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND SENSATIONALISM FOR BRANDED PLACEMAKING

Blog: YVES SAINT LAURENT: A JOURNEY OF DESIGN, SOUL BRAND, STORY AND RETAIL RETELLING

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Blog: Fast Casual Restaurant Brand Experience Design: Audition and Analysis

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