by Tim Girvin | Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Jul 19, 2016
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: the future? Could business stand for more than just bizzy-ness and commerce? Surely. And many do. In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2014
Designing Magic: The Draft of the Letter as the Quest for Mystery Everyone knows that occult really means hidden. But in that, one might surmise that the Cult of the Occult would be nothing more than the quest for the hidden. I probably live there, in more ways than...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 24, 2014
THE SOULFUL BRAND There is a proposition that a brand can have soul. That a brand, as a presence built by humans, can have a warmth of intention. Intention is the grasp, literally, to stretch out. What does the reach of a brand re-present? Any brand starts with an...
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jul 25, 2011
Workers at a fake Apple store with an iPad tablet in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Friday. Wong Campion / Reuters The Soul of the Brand Material In the emerging wild east of China, the idea of counterfeiting continues as the savaging of anything and everything...