Blogs By Tim Girvin
THE HEART OF THE BRAND | STORE ONE
Starbucks, Pike Place Market -- the beginnings of a branded world. A brand becomes a world: (tenet, intention, cult and culture, community and audience: engagement + embracement = enchantment). This world, built and evolving -- founded on the inspiration of its...
THE PREMISE OF DESIGN THINKING
Exploring the emotionality of strategy, the humanity of brand, untethered creativity and the tactics of design management. EXAMINING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE We've got history in the balance between the concept of the crossroads of creativity and intelligence, as well as...
S A N C T A S A N C T O R U M
sanctum SANK-tum, noun; Alone, this morning, I was thinking about the quietude of the place that I am, the place that I am being in -- and I considered -- I held, that idea of place and magic. That place of retreat -- and respite. Long back, being in Rome, and hearing...
Hand Touch | Digital Touch
Thinking Craft, Materials Cutting and Computation I've been working on a series of journals. Recently, I'd been drawing from a iPad -- and learning to craft formats and visuals that cross from photographic gatherings -- and scribed, live, handwritten text. Tools are...
THE MOTHER OF COURAGE
EXPLORING FEMININE LEADERSHIP The power of the feminine principal I've been working with three (new) clients, all women, whose names shall be held in reserve, for now -- but it's interesting to contemplate the character of the feminine, when it comes to their...
WHAT IS OUT, WHAT IS IN
THE PORTALS TO SEEING SOME ONE WAS TALKING TO ME ABOUT WINDOWS. Actually, I was looking at old windows and wondering about what's been seen between the seer and the sight beyond. These were old windows -- that were removed from houses. They were being sold as recycled...
Strategies of Innovation | Cinematic Production Design
Working the World: Innovations and Revelations, the Future Reclaimed I N N O V A T I O N C H A N N E L S Working in varying parts of the world, depending on the culture, your relationships there invariably offer to show you the newest and the coolest in town. Being...
Strategies of Naming
The Naming of Things THE MYSTICAL ROOTS OF THE GATHERING OF NAMES. An ancient principle of voice struggles in the subjective empowerment of words -- as vessels for improvised ideas -- and the named premise of ideals. I've written in the past about the idea of the...
SEND HELP
WHAT LANGUAGE: YOUR MESSAGE? WHAT CALL: YOUR PLEA? WHAT TONE: YOUR HOPE? HOW LOUD: YOUR REACH? Sometimes I'm asking for help. But I'm not asking for help in the right way. One calls out, but the call falls on deafness. The point might be that the call is incorrect,...
LOOK(ING) OUT
Studying the nature of surveillance | the lookout, the sentinel, the scout (and the brand). S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the shifting world, there is what is flowing out -- the push; and what is flowing in -- the pull. The question might...