by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 29, 2009
Engaging leadership brand champions: studying the patterning of innovation, the struggle of the paradigm and the modeling of breaking brands free. As a business person, a planner, and a student of enterprise internationally, working on the edge of innovation,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Nov 22, 2009
Girvin | Strategic Branding Research: Brand, personality, testing and global marketing initiatives What is the line that moves to the psychic space of a person? How do you find the heart of a relationship? Brand to person? Person as brand to community? During the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 15, 2009
Notes on the choreography of experience: brandstories, the art of dance, life and business entwined. A long and complex titling, that is; but it’s the title for an exploration on the alignment between dance and fire, and movement, and life, and love, and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2009
Exemplars of Apple Messaging and Brand Product Events: Theatricality and entertainment marketing strategy in the presentation of ideas. Being one whose livelihood is wholly built on the premise of relevant content, delivery and entertainment — the concept of the...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 7, 2009
Strategies of brand patterning, collaborative design and Girvin evolutions Design is about the embrace of change. And any brand, over time, has to freshly attach to the conception of transition in continuously and resiliently responding to shifts in the market. The...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 19, 2009
The string of imagination — never underestimate the connectivity of the right telling The concept of the story relates to the string; and that string can be a brand sequence just as well. The point is that the imagining of the telling really doesn’t need...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Incubation, Storytelling | Oct 12, 2009
Brand strategy in cause related marketing Every brand begins with a human, and that sense of the “human-ness” is aligned with intentionality. Humanitarian brands — those which espouse the notion of aid for other human beings — are intentionally...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 11, 2009
Brand strategy exploration: Yves Saint Laurent | Girvin: 2007 For a presentation on entrepreneurship, branding and emotional content to the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GIRVIN’S FOCUS has been directed to the concept of brand development and...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail, Storytelling | Oct 5, 2009
Merchandising, adventure, love of work. Some might call it flow, the idea of doing something that you really love, all the time. There are people like that that I’ve met — they just flow, in the happiness of the practice. What I wonder about is the concept...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 25, 2009
Exploring exchange, love, cultural branding. We’ve been exploring this idea of brand, love, warmth and community; and we all know that any enterprise relationship will center on several things — the notion of relevance (“it’s something that I...
