Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Apple As Luxury Brand
"Apple Store - Downtown New York" by JeremyMP is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 . I first met Steve Jobs in the 80s. Actually, it was at Stanford. He was there, speaking. And I was there, listening. Afterwards, I went up to introduce myself. And we went from there. I...
what way, found, what path, known?
I've been drawing -- painting -- things like this for some time. And, well, they're flat. There are two dimensions. The black, the white. And the space, between. And then, too, there are translations of the energetic content of the brushstroke and the drawing, that...
Cut Rock | Rock Cut: soul patterning
http://www.kenrock.com/ I'd met Ken Rock, sitting on the sidewalk. That's what he does, part of the time. Sit on the side walk and hammer away. Looking from further down the block, I'd wondered what that person was doing. It was nightfall. And it was cold. Bond...
Claude Chirac | Director of Communications | PPR | 12.16.07
I'd read the news about Claude Chirac in the past, studying her -- in the political management of her father, Jacques Chirac. While she's been defined as chilly, the fist of steel in an Herm glove, I believe that her character has more to do with her sense of...
40 Bond | Ian Schrager | Brand + Architectural Patterning |12.2.07
I've offered some expression of the opening vision of 40 Bond and I've been watching the evolution of that project. I went back. I had a couple of meetings in that area, NOHO, I'm guessing. Kimberly Sheppard from Gabellini | Sheppard. And Clodagh's right there, too....
Yves Saint Laurent | the personal, the person
I'd worked for Yves Saint Laurent to explore the story in the context or retail design and brand strategy a year ago -- working under the leadership of YSL President Laura Lendrum and her EVP | Retail Design, Claudia Cividino. The work was a gathering, a collective...
Luxury | Tom Ford | Moscow | IHT
I had the chance to listen to Tom Ford, and to meet him, at a CEO Summit for WWD | Beauty | Miami. Nice man. Incredibly articulate thinker, as well. And this was, formally, before the announcement of the Tom Ford brand. Shirin Von Wulffen, a person I worked with at...
Umberto Angeloni | The New Truth in Luxury (and everything else)
I am looking for truth. Looking at finding truth. Looking for businesses -- and people -- that are about truth fullness. That the story that they tell is a robust expression of the inherent character of who they are. And in exploring that premise, I came across...
Michael James Hawk | Green light
There's person that works with me, at Girvin, Michael James Hawk. He's an able researcher: need some added content, a reflection on a new client, gathering presentation material, managing Google research, studying the inbounds on Girvin.com -- he's the man. All that....
Direct marketing and brand identity
As a developer of campaign theming, in direct marketing development, ranging from department stores to retail products, theatrical marketing to entertainment design, the soul of the direct marketing story can lie in the very heart of the conceptual visualization --...