Search results for: storytelling
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Nov 15, 2008
Remaking banking in retail community building and development How do you tell a story that’s not the same old? In visiting banks — and the brand presence of their sites (literally and online) — and studying the crises of the current banking scenario... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Motion Pictures | Apr 19, 2011
Focus Features The folkloric intuition, legendary dimensions of the lensed visualization There are cycles, repeating patterning, in the engagement of story and archetype, mystery and beauty. When I was in college, I corresponded with Joseph Campbell, the grand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Jun 8, 2009
What brands face, in Facebook? Many, if their culture is robust enough… In the metaphor of communing, there are layers — circles — of connections that we have with each other and our friends. A drop, ripples. Stories are told — they are shared,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail, Storytelling | Sep 19, 2008
Tom Barbitta is a friend of mine. A friend, as a client — a friend as an fellow explorer of story. A brand explorer. He believes in the power of story as a link to building relationships with people. Brand, in story, is solely about that — linking people... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | May 11, 2008
Sometime back, after some midtown meetings, I’d been making my way back to the NYC Girvin office. And I came across this treatment for Chipotle, a McDonald’s concept investment. But the point is hardly about the opening collaboration in ownership (founded... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Nov 7, 2006
Bill Virgin, Seattle PI To the nature of shifting marketing, to marketing environments…I’d offer this: We tend to visualize the shifting of messages, for businesses, as a tuning of the story. So if there’s the implication that a brand, for example,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | BRAND MYSTICISM, Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 24, 2019
BRAND MYSTICISM IN CINEMATIC STORYTELLING: working in the motion picture industry, you see patterning. Imagery above from LionsGate|Summit There are arcs of narrative lines, plot structures—character intercessions, ascensions and descensions of protagonist figures, as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Sep 11, 2008
Exploring the journal as journey — and finding the truth in your self. Where are you going, anyway? What do you have to say for your self? Where have you been? What do you care about? And finally, given all that, what does it mean — to you, to others, to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Scent | Nov 24, 2007
http://www.amouage.com/ What’s the story, what’s the layering behind the fragrance, that leads to the story. Fanny Adams, Paris, tells this story. November is also a month to celebrate for Middle Eastern perfume company Amouage, which launches two new... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 3, 2009
Seattle Theatre Group’s Celebration of the Arts, in a Newly Defined Event Modeling: Doorways for everyone. During these times, the present financial travails, there are challenges to virtually every institution — regardless of the scale, the import of... Read More
