Search results for: embracement
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 18, 2012
These Days, People Work Anywhere; and Brands, Their Stories, Can Live Anywhere. But they can’t be nowhere. Everything needs a place. The nature of the seamless world, presumes an osmotic fluency — content, storytelling, wonderment, spectacle and experience... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts | Apr 18, 2025
The GIRVIN | Strategic Branding & Design team have a long history in creating pathways to humanize the strategic impressions—and tactical outcomes, in technology brand experience—for enterprise employees, community relationships and customers. In a legacy of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jun 11, 2012
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN | Archetypes in storytelling, repetitive patterning in the mythic dimension The question and the quest for the lineage of story patterning. (in-theatre screen, street and subway shots / girvin) There is a story, in a story, in a story... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts, Storytelling | May 30, 2025
Brand Chains, Ropes, Knots and the Entwinement of Meaning As a Boy Scout—even out to the rank of Eagle—I always had a fascination with knots, ropes, lashing, sea-and-water craft in the tradition of sailing. In scouting there is an expectation, as I’ve noted earlier,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Trends | Sep 4, 2012
Old Coolness | Logo history Image credit: StockLogos In the past, countless logos show the character of the original brand personality. Does modernization take away the soul of their launching propositions? In some instances, we think — “yes!” How... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Sep 6, 2012
Amazon retail, a theory [Girvin]– bricks and mortar? Brand, retail, retelling, retooling, rethinking. Retail and community, brand storytelling as a reflective sharing — the story of place, of culture, of wonder, embracement and connectivity. There is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 22, 2013
Brand, story, object and ritual. The art of the axe, chopping wood, arranging wood, starting fires, it holds a string of stories for many. Being in Portland, a proverbial city of the Axe, has built a culture around the axe. The axe is a splitting adze, a blade that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers | Apr 17, 2013
The End that is the Beginning | Brands & Death It might be said that the idea of associating the creative essence of the late Alexander McQueen with a skull is a mistake — a slide off the backside of a brilliant man, who passed in the swirl of an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | May 30, 2013
The Light of Brand, the Voice and the Tiering of Message Messaging and stair-stepping access in community Given the entirely human nature of brand, the enterprise of humanity, the idea of thinking about brand as a poetic expression, isn’t entirely without... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 1, 2013
Conceptualizing holding, in the context of relationship, experience and brand. I was working as a charrette leader on brand for a beauty and wellness start-up. We talked about — “why, who, where, what?” The big questions. And we talked about the... Read More
