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...
Clodagh
I'd met with Clodagh in the 80s. She was starting, I was starting. Now, interestingly, after all this time, the size of her group, the size of our group, is about the same. Both of us got big, then smaller, leaner. But Clodagh's modeling is substantially different...
Matt Groening
Matt Groening & Tim Girvin: Cartooned life Meditations on careers, creative and titles. I met Matt Groening first at TED, 2007. More often than not, people have said that the big connection that I have with college is cartooning. "Hey, you're from the same school...
What is the question?
You. The question? What mystery found, what box unopened -- what, unanswerable issues -- what comes forth, now found, newly discovered? What are you looking for, what is there to be ? What is that? I've been thinking about this a lot this weekend. What draws me? What...
The New York Times
7 | 9 | 07 The New York Times | explorations of the new edifice. I went to check out the New York Times new building. It's not all theirs, of course. But, it's new. The structure was created by Renzo Piano -- I've long admired his work. Since Pompidou Centre. There's...