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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Oct 7, 2014
In the game of games, resilience, strength, perception matter. So too in brands. To the allegory of sports, as a gamesman, I tend to contemplate allegory, conceptual alignments, metaphors. Think poetry. Flow. Focus. Speed. Strength. Perception. Flow: In the grace of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Luxury | Nov 25, 2007
Todd Heisler | The New York Times I’m wondering about the concept of attention. And the holding of things. How we hold something, how we hold attention. There’s something to memory and holding a concept in one’s mind. For many of us, for me, the idea... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 20, 2012
YOU ARE THE ONE The focus of distinguishment – the one, the only, the you. I was at Seminarium, in Lima, Perú, over the course of the last couple of days — the focus: retail strategy. This connection started with a link, and an link — that goes back... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent, Storytelling | May 27, 2011
Perfume Environments: The Scent Visioning of Christopher Brosius Window display, Brosius I’d tried to link to Brosius live, but couldn’t since he was working on project, one that he was focusing on. I did see him at his shop, but held my tongue in reaching... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 7, 2010
Technology, attunement to content, the iPad and new modeling of computing place. I started writing this missive a couple of weeks back, and it would appear to becoming a reference of increasing topicality. Even today, a detailed overview of the challenges of an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Feb 23, 2010
Girvin office lobby | Seattle Exploring the concept of Zen in the construct of branding In working with teams, on the implications of their brand, the process is inevitably collaborative. How can I, or Girvin, completely understand without comprehending where the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 2, 2010
Visioning mission, promise, proposal, proposition and the inculcation of values, notations on design thinking and strategic attention. “Vision can be written, it’s scribing a dream; it’s a designed evocation — a voicing. Mission is that act... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Storytelling | Nov 7, 2009
Strategies of brand patterning, collaborative design and Girvin evolutions Design is about the embrace of change. And any brand, over time, has to freshly attach to the conception of transition in continuously and resiliently responding to shifts in the market. The... Read More
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 | Brands, Concepts, General | Jul 13, 2009
Human brands | the spirit of brand development in the context of cause related marketing There is something to the travails of the human condition in communicating the benefits of solutions that many organizations attempt to express, in terms of the uplift that they... Read More
