Blogs By Tim Girvin
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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,...
News Update from Tableau Software
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...
40 Bond Street | Of glass skins
Hi and good morning. I went to Gabellini Sheppard to talk to them about some things. And they're right on the foot of Bond, in NYC. I walked over to 40 Bond, to see about Ian Schrager's new venture with HerzogDeMeuron. And what's happening, there? Or is it the other...
Boxing
Heavy bag (and you know who you are), meet this fist | Harry Hurt III What I like about this is that I know that | this space very well. And in a way, it seems like I'm always working in that (semi) martial space -- either fighting myself, or fighting, figuratively,...
TED | d.log>4
The last day was that last tango with the minds of the wildly ranging talent that is TED. More adventures, more risk, more exposures. And it's all about that risk. Exploding the trust of what you are, what you can be. That might be a thread -- breaking the edge of...