The love of place | GIRVIN|BRANDS: San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley
A new office in one of our favorite cities: the love of place | San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley: GIRVIN's new presence in California Building strategic intention, tracking our design heritage, Girvin returns to work in the City by the Bay. S.F. East Bay,...
You are the one | Human + Brand concepts of singularity
YOU ARE THE ONE The focus of distinguishment - the one, the only, the you. I was at Seminarium, in Lima, Perú, over the course of the last couple of days -- the focus: retail strategy. This connection started with a link, and an link -- that goes back in time. All...
Prometheus: Happy Birthday David – Story Actualization
PUSHING IMAGINATIVE LIMITS: RIDLEY SCOTT: PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR PROMETHEUS. A COUPLE OF WEEKS BACK, WE WROTE A LITTLE OF OUR HISTORY WITH THE SCOTT BROTHERS -- RIDLEY AND TONY. THAT HISTORY IS QUIET, MODEST AND LADEN WITH LEARNING. ISN'T IT SO, THAT THE MOST...
Into the mist
Time ticks as you walk in the dark, emerging or failing light -- and you realize that your true reliable momentum measure is the sound of your heels -- moment to moment: pavement, gravel, pea, grass, chipped woods, snow and ice. Each, a rhythm, a story. Here now, hear...
Cut me up café! FAB!!!
DIWO @ FAB! Digital Dimension shop, Tokyo, Japan -- from Fablab/Japan Hiroya Tanaka & Chiaki Hayashi | Fabcafé / FabLab [co]founders and Fab[lab]Visionaries/p> A CRAFTWORKS Café -- collaborative, exploratory, experimental, "hack cultural." We're thinking about,...
WORDMARK | STRATEGIES: THE MARK OF THE WORD, THE WORD OF THE MARK
THE MARK OF THE WORD Tim Girvin shooting words, textures, materials | photo Dawn A. Clark THE WORD OF THE MARK, THE POWER OF THE WORD, THE CONTEXT OF MEANING: MARKED W O R D M A R K, n. All Imagery except the first -- noted and duly credited -- by GIRVIN Words have...
What story, hi:story? HISTOIRES DE PARFUMS
What story, hi:story? HISTOIRES DE PARFUMS | Blackbird Apothecary –––––––––––––––––– What story, hi:story? Antique Chemistry and distillation equipment, here and below from Girvin blog story: Farmaceutica Santa Maria Novella | Girvin imagery What is the context of...
Howard Schultz: The spin of the human brand, foundations and visioning, too far flung?
Howard Schultz: The spin of the human brand, foundations and visioning, too far flung? Starbucks | Store one The spirit of the impassioned leader or founder speaks from the heart, which can drive everything, top down. Spirit sparks spin -- which isn't just that, spun...
Ridley Scott, the TED brand, Alien and the quest for Prometheus
Powerful ideas, invention and brand re-alignments, newly imagined. I'm looking for surprise, beauty, spectacle -- designing it, looking at it, seeing it, extending that story -- the telling of it. To tell anything, there has to be another -- the listener. And...
The scent of smoke
Sitting, working, early this morning -- there's smoke wafting in the studio. It's too dark outside for there to be any other light -- none emerges from the old building, studio windows - an old class room. The scent of this is old wood -- the "fire of wood." Named:...