Search results for: wonder
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Oct 14, 2011
Seeking alignments in the spirit of brand design, experience development and product quality. Brands, angling in (how customers incidentally connect with the reflective brand; and the brand and its reflexive indices of insights in human experience and storytelling... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Human brands, Luxury, Scent | Sep 9, 2011
What is the nature of the perfected marvel, in scent? Really — you smell marvelous? I got a note from Barneys New York. It was really about Byredo — I’d made some notes about them earlier. Y O U S M E L L M A R V E L ? Ben Gorham’s drawn up... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Storytelling | Jul 28, 2010
What happened with Michelle Obama, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards and MAC Cosmetics? Sometime back, I’d sent a note to Kate + Laura, each with a painting on bark gathered from the high hills of Kaua’i, and a story to tell — that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Sep 18, 2009
The Duke Study on brand, imagination and the impression of self. It’s been pointed out that seeing Apple’s cool logo makes you feel more creative and smarter. And it’s not only about that — how you feel — but how you act. That’s an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | Sep 12, 2009
Apple: Steve Jobs, Applications, App Store and community Indulge me for a moment, would you? Scan this literary framing for a word — below. One word, over time. Think of it as poetry for the instant, prose for the momentous, lines for just now.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places | Aug 8, 2009
The opening of the mimetic thread: patterning in place made. I realize that everything we do, everything that one does, either goes forward, in the advancement of that personal melody in the capacity of experience — or, perhaps, it goes back, to the beginning... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Aug 4, 2009
What is the brand of place? I’ve thought, long and hard, about the idea of brand in place. Moreso, the concept of the contained generosity, in sharing, and the nature of the host, the hostess, in creating a place of content — made; that is: if... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Apr 6, 2009
Designing experiences and retail strategy | enlightening presence in the power of feminine visionaries. Right now, Girvin, the firm, is comprised mostly of women. And over time, I’ve found that women, as team partners, are superlative creative resources. And,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Dec 8, 2008
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Congratulates Barack Obama Exploring definition of trend, in action, in the pursuit of the new. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” Joan Miro I’ve wondered about the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places | Jul 9, 2007
Edward Burtynsky | Manufactured Landscapes @ the Film Forum | NYC. Trailer and related content —- Beautiful ugliness. I’ve made some notes about the idea of beauty, in ugliness, before. Ugly beauty. You know that concept — the swirls of rainbowed oil... Read More
