by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 15, 2016
Vague enterprises, blurred statements and frizzy positioning. I was walking across a vast concrete and asphalt lot, hundreds of feet between me and the monoliths of retail across the expansively empty and sweltering plains, two stood there: Sears and JCPenney. In the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jun 16, 2016
BRAND KICKSTART: ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND GIRVIN office lobby working session | Seattle THE IMPETUS OF SPIRITUAL BRANDING — EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF ZEN IN THE CONSTRUCT OF BRANDING In working with teams, on the implications of their brand, the process is inevitably...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers | Dec 10, 2015
Focusing: the Flow of Ideas, Strokes and Inspiration: Teaching Calligraphy and Designed Exploration A study of letterforms, the calligraphic drawing of educational references, paleography and alphabetic history, photographic brand boards, broadsides on rhythm and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Aug 14, 2015
Girvin, Inc. The Art of Seeing Slower: Examinations of Focus, Attention and Precision — the Slow Time: the art of looking slow. I spent some time, working in, and exploring, Florida — some: Sarasota; some: Miami; some: Plantation. I gave a talk down there, a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jul 1, 2015
WATCHING, LISTENING, ATTUNEMENT In the intertwining of life, work and brand, there are keys to actualization and mobilization. In my experience, the notion of attention and focus are at the heart of how people either reach-out, or reach-in — it’s how the exchange...
