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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Places | Dec 21, 2012
How to plan and design a menu? Key is close collaboration — and knowing the diner, the experience strategy, the character of illumination, stylistic consciousness, and the budgeting of items in relation to the financial strategy of the brand. A menu, like the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 21, 2010
All Saints Spitalfields | Soho (video from allsaints.com) Brand legacy, place, story, music Ever since All Saints Spitalfields launched in New York City, I was curious about the strategy of design. What’s the story? There is one, a part, here: It starts here,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Retail, Scent | Nov 22, 2010
Aman | Bali, Indonesia (Girvin) THE HEART OF FRAGRANCE IN HOTELS AND RESORTS Is it a designed scent, the perfume that is gathered into a perfume fusion that signals the messaging of the opening experience in entering a space? Or is it more holistic, the bigger... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Scent | Oct 21, 2010
When scent becomes too much in retail environments and place making: fragrance awash in experience design Image courtesy of Warner Brothers (Inception) Abercrombe & Fitch, conflict and protest — a Fierce objection You might recall a time when, strolling at a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 19, 2009
Early counsel: the strategy on brand identity, for one of the best motion picture brand developers in the world. A number of years, back, I had the opportunity to work with James Cameron and his marketing team on the conception of the Abyss. That being, in particular,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Places | Jan 23, 2009
Defining story, brand and environment — in synchrony. Finally. When I was working in Paris, several years ago, I’d connected with Serge Trigano, talking to him about a series of projects. Serge comes from the family that originated ClubMed — a wildly... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 17, 2015
What is the way, found? I was thinking about this. In the context of the work that you do. And what we do. I’ve wondered about that, the character of being lost, being found. Finding your way. And there’s a part of the work that we do that is just about that — helping... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail, Storytelling | Jul 30, 2015
SIGNAGE, MESSAGING, SCALE AND BEAUTY. I’m not saying that we’ve not designed massive signage. We have, we’ve created signing that can be seen for miles. Yes, Vegas. And other places. But what I admire are more elegantly restrained solutions. What one might think are... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Nov 9, 2009
Exploring the challenge of branding, focused market relevance and brand storytelling. Some time back, I was asked by a Creative Director at a major food producing organization, to create a brand shift that would take the riskiest flagship brand to a place of renewed... Read More
