by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 16, 2017
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S NARRATIVE WEAVING IN DUNKIRK I saw Dunkirk the other night, and it was interesting to study — to watch and walk the design and the holism of its building: the place that it makes in mind, heart and sensation. The building of the design of the...
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Jul 19, 2017
WANDERING, YOU GET OUT THERE — IN A STRAIGHT OR MEANDERING LINE — THERE ARE PLACES TO DISCOVER, MEMORIES TO BE MADE, FRIENDS TO FIND. AND YOU’RE FOLLOWING WHAT BEACON, MAP MADE, LINE TRACED? YOUR PLOTTED LINE, YOUR INSTINCT, THE SUN, A DREAM? DESTINY? Of course, as we...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Jun 14, 2017
FUTURE FORWARD | BRAND STRATEGIES AND INTENTIONAL IGNITION TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE. Brief creativity? Can creativity be defined in a brief? Probably not. What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? In a cycle of a half-decade, more often than not,...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 7, 2017
THE BASTARD LETTER | LITTERA BASTARDA, JON SNOW & THE CALLIGRAPHY OF THE GAME OF THRONES GIRVIN CALLIGRAPHY CLASSES WALK OUR TEAMS BACK IN TIME — THE CRAFT AND HISTORY OF THE LETTER, A JOURNEY IN PALAEOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL HISTORY. What was drawn then, what was...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | May 31, 2017
The Quest for Meaningful Relationships and Memorable Commitments, Magnetic Brands. Strategies of change, impermanence and content: collaborative design and GIRVIN evolutions. I was talking to someone about history — my history — now four decades of continuous practice...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 4, 2017
THE PASSION OF INSPIRATION: YOU-BRANDING | HUMAN BRAND STRATEGIES FLAME ON! I met Tom Peters, just moments after his (as usual) carefully integrated marketing of “the brand called you” positioning. As ever, he knows how to get the work / word / world out there quickly...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 21, 2017
The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspiration Jorge Luis Borges I had a dream about this man, this meeting and I had to recount it again. It’s one of the things that happens when you’re on the road a lot — there is a time where a simple chronological...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Feb 22, 2017
HOW’S THAT FEEL? Girvin BRAND REACTIVITY: THE INTUITIVE RESPONSE IN INSTINCTUAL RECOGNITION IN BRAND STRATEGY THESE ARE THE DAYS OF EXPERIMENTS: EVERYWHERE, EVERYTIME. AND GREAT IDEAS, INSPIRATIONS, AND ANSWERS — COUPLED WITH THE WISDOM OF EXPERIENCE — CAN CLICK IN AN...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Feb 7, 2017
THE LEAP, THE JUMP TO RISK The Grand Canyon There is a path of the straight and narrow. And there is a path of an unexpected roadway. You can take either, depending on your expectation of outcome. There is an easy way, and there is another, that breaks the normal...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Jan 31, 2017
FLINT + SPARK = FLAME ON! THE ETYMOLOGY OF BRAND, INNOVATION, CULTURE + FIRE BRANDFIRE | THE ENTERPRISES THAT ARE FIRED BY PASSION As a designer, presuming strategic intention, the practice of designing — buildings, print, objects — is never about what’s on the...
