Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Enchantment, engagement and embracement in the layering of brand messaging, visualization and experience design
What do you know? The mystery of mind, message and meaning. I was thinking about that question -- someone asked me: "well, what'cha know?" And I contemplated the depth of the question. It's just as powerful as "what's your story?" I thought about it: "really, what do...
The Symbolism of the X
What lies beneath: the nature of the X, the cross road, the crossing guard, the mark of the x and the magic of the nexus. The symbolic allegory of the x mark. When I was in Bali, I surprised by the villagers attention to the white flagged pieces of paper that hanged...
BRANDFIRE | Conceptions of Passionate Brand Leadership
Exploring the detailed visioning of leadership in brand management. This article appeared in the June 2010 issue of Arcade | Architecture and Design in the Northwest. Fire. BRANDFIRE | A culture of passion What lies beneath I think we need to be thinking about our...
BrandQuest® Innovations and New Brand Development at Girvin | Strategic Branding
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, I've...
Brand Psyche | Examining brand relationships and human personality profiling
GIRVIN’s Strategic and anthropological brand research in global enterprise, personality, and profile testing. What is the line that moves towards marketing to the psychic space of a person? How do you find the heart of a relationship? Brand to person? Person as brand...
Brand, storytelling, presentation and spectacle: Steve Jobs
"Steve Jobs 1955-2011" by segagman is licensed under CC BY 2.0 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...
Notes on brand, strategy, story and hybrid messaging
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 innovation...
Exploring Personal Brand Development | The Human Brand and the Search for Meaning
Every brand is designed by a human; and built for a human, yet we don't often think of ourselves as living brands. The notion of branding is based on premises that are thousands of years old; it's less about the proposition of being merely a business enactment and...
Brand Instinct: The human sense of connection in community
Studying the context of intuition in branding When we've had the opportunity to explore the notions of testing -- locally, nationally, internationally, even in micro-community and localized interceptions -- it's interesting to consider what is sensed, in the testing,...
Art Wolfe | Exploring a human brand of curiosity, discovery, love
Art Wolfe | Wikipedia imagery file Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The brand that is a living, loving being. Art Wolfe and I go way back -- decades; but my personal relationship with him goes back further -- into the recesses of my younger years,...