by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Feb 24, 2012
Brand experiences that are designed to holistically speak product strategy, merchandising & manifestation Apple comes to mind. We have commented. It might be projected that some brands offer merchandise, particularly in the fashion retail experience, that are...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Feb 14, 2012
love me, do; and I will love you — and indeed — shall love:love All days. TO THE LOVE OF WORDS, THEIR MEANINGS AND MANNER, LOVE DOUGLAS HARPER Love daze. Any day should be about love. Love found, love newly discovered, long savored. It is the holding, the...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 8, 2012
Which way are you listing? open, sourced? foundation: sharing. –––––––––––––––– Vince — good question last night, listening into our meeting; “how does a meeting with people that you’ve never met becomes a familial love / hug fest?” Silence...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Feb 3, 2012
Doing creative speculative work — a pitch that costs nothing for the client — and everything for the creative team. I was in an argument with the team at Toyota — for what seems like months; lots of errors, miscommunications, challenges and failures...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Feb 3, 2012
There’s a story about beautiful garbage, based on the idea of one person’s — a team — visioning of a litter free place. That being — an alley. In Seattle, the founder team came up with the notion of “dumpster free” alleys, by...
by Tim Girvin | General | Feb 1, 2012
Designing in the otherworldly — futurism found and built — in the scarcity of the desert. It might not be certain what the effect of the desert air, broad and brilliant skies, ranges of mountainous channels could be in the sentiments of design and...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 24, 2012
the creative hunger, the force of passionate making raven, verb i"m thinking about the hunger that is beneath the hunger. I’m talking less about food and more about the notion of the food beneath food — that is, what drives the hunger itself?...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers | Jan 18, 2012
Design, brand foundations and Silicon Valley: opening the channels to brand origination. “I know that there’s a story here, but how will people get it? What is the story, what’s cool about it — and why would anyone care?” I was thinking...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Luxury, Marketing 2.0, Scent | Jan 16, 2012
THE STRATEGY OF A STORY, THAT’S AN OLD STORY, THAT’S A NEW STORY, RETOLD. Why do you carry a story, that is another story (even brand story) that becomes your story — brought forward? What does the listener hold? If there’s a scent – a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jan 12, 2012
Thinking about the iconography of place, what’s made in it. What are the talismans of your place? A person stopped by my condominium, asking to borrow a can opener. Peering into my place, she said — “are you moving?” As I looked back, there...
