Search results for: human-brands
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 11, 2009
Brand strategy exploration: Yves Saint Laurent | Girvin: 2007 For a presentation on entrepreneurship, branding and emotional content to the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GIRVIN’S FOCUS has been directed to the concept of brand development and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Storytelling | May 26, 2022
WORKSHOPPING LOVE AND PASSION I was talking to a colleague about “love,” the notion of letter-writing and love-worthy thoughts expressed in a hand-notated missive, one human to another. To that, we were talking about stamps—particularly this love stamp I’d designed... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Dec 27, 2011
Those that own the brands, own the story to hold the brand — and in offering that, carry forward their own story. Setting style, imagination, art and the making of scene, scent sent. “She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living.” Designer and film... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Brands, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 8, 2023
In the quest for finding the soulful intention of human-built enterprises—first there has to be an underpinning of knowledge about these brand systems and their architecture. Their seeds, their planting, the foliation and the nodality of their evolutions. And finally,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Trends | Jan 9, 2012
Brand genetics: starting with leadership, the lessons and coding of story and communications, rippling from the one — to billions. Tim Westergren, the genetics of sound, legacy and the one to the one. Opening the box of Pandora, nearly ten years back, I’d... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 19, 2010
Image credit: Matt Hagen Exploring the concept of human branding, foundational leadership, evolution and Seattle BioMed. Working in a long string of partnerships, with founding board members, executive committees and scientists, from the early 2000s, then 2004, then... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, General | Dec 14, 2008
This is the third in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Jan 12, 2011
The Way: The Song of the Soul | Human Brand Storytelling and the Path to Connection To every message about the human character, and the warmth within, the human brand evocation is the statement of the truth of the soul that lies at the heart of being. There are stars.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Feb 3, 2011
Card from Frances May, photo by Girvin What about goodness? Brand, story, soul, humanity, beauty. Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing. [“As You Like It”] I was speaking with a client about the nature of goodness, in the truth of the brand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 22, 2011
Can creativity be defined in a brief? What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? No. Brands are inordinately complicated orchestrations. Being that they inherently involve relationships to humans, the idea of “briefness” is a... Read More