Blogs By Tim Girvin
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Sometimes, there's one sticky adhesion, one magnetism that links people, brands, projects together. When I go into a new client's office, the one elemental attribute of the interiors that I study are the books. What books are there? What's this person reading? What's...
Scent
Scent is the most powerful of the five senses. How can companies use scent to attract customers? How can it be used as a marketing tool? It's important to think of scent as a kind of layering of experience. For example, scent alone won't instantly transform a prospect...
American Graphic Design
design -- the implementation of the signature, the marking, the descriptive curve, has always been that thing which crosses borders -- for the sharing of one thing makes its way to another -- it's found here, signed, and extended there...and with that, it's a wonder...
Tim Girvin + Claudia Cividino / Luxury and the Huffington Post
The point, to the discussion, our talk, our sharing -- is really simple. Is luxury, really, luxury? Or merely smoke? Where's the legacy, the story, the craft, the making, the beauty, the powered intensity of focus?? Or are we merely selling the skins of the idea?...
Sex and retail
I've been studying sex. And retail. Since I was a teenager. Not necessarily in that order. Nor presumably together. But I've been studying them. My first exposures to the concept was as a boy scout traveling in Europe, as an early teenager. What I'd discovered was...
Human Branding: Exploring emotional content in brand storytelling development
Seeds of Compassion | The Kirlin Foundation It's interesting to note, sometimes, how entrepreneurs look at the premise of their enterprise as being, fundamentally, operational and transactional. There are literally thousands of businesses that operate otherwise, but I...
Dimensioned drawing: coming to life
See this? I was thinking about you. And I thought about this idea. ------ Remember this book? Harold and the Purple Crayon. I've had a dream about this idea - the notion of drawing something, that moves and comes to life in a breathed animation. You might have seen...
Notes on The Matrix design
There's another symbolic value to the O and the 1 beyond the nature of the digital translation of content and interpretation. O, the curved enclosure -- is, in sequence etymologically -- from Sanskrit -- the sunya; Arabic, sifr; Medieval Latin, ciphra; the cipher, the...
Material ConneXion | NYC | Bangkok | Cologne | Milan
Good morning -- I'm not sure if you've been here, Material ConneXion, but given your interests -- just in case -- I'm passing this along. I've got a client that is being represented by this group, and wanted to know more -- so I went there; it's just blocks from...
Of course there’s a retort
Weblink to article "Innovation and Sales - Never Say Never, Tim Girvin" ------ Never say never. Let's look back. First of all, can't quite remember a quote like that, but too, what's the point of the method, to the medium? Is it that then, to McLuhan's titled...