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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 | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling, Trends | Jan 1, 2010
Is it really about love, or it is about the affection effect? Branding and marketing strategies with love as the focus. Some thoughts: It’s been proffered that there’s an emerging phrasing of love in advertising and marketing promotion. I don’t think... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Retail, Storytelling | Aug 25, 2011
Leadership passion — the commitment of crazy brand love in powering the direction of business There are plenty of stories about CEOs that are so crazy in love with the premise of their work that they simply can’t disconnect from the evolving contribution... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Feb 3, 2011
Card from Frances May, photo by Girvin What about goodness? Brand, story, soul, humanity, beauty. Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing. [“As You Like It”] I was speaking with a client about the nature of goodness, in the truth of the brand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Retail | Feb 5, 2010
Attitude, growth, solutions, strategy, design, charisma, trend leadership and responsiveness. Brands that live and brands that die. There’s a curious challenge in the realm of celebrity brand development. Some evolve happily, growing, selling up, selling out and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Storytelling, Trends | Sep 25, 2009
Exploring exchange, love, cultural branding. We’ve been exploring this idea of brand, love, warmth and community; and we all know that any enterprise relationship will center on several things — the notion of relevance (“it’s something that I... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places, Retail, Trends | Nov 21, 2008
Exploring unbranded brand storytelling There’s a new concept that’s been created by McDonald’s, in Tokyo. No brand, yes brand — scrap brand, new brand. “We want consumers to discover great taste and not care about who produced it.”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts | Feb 24, 2022
THE SIGILLIC SOLUTION In the journey of brand design and identity, there is the high road, the first summit, the easier vista—the outreach of an accessible view and foundational story: “it’s beautiful, so this must be a beautiful brand.” And then there are the deeper... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Interior Design | Aug 7, 2019
Experientiality. A quick scan of the dictionary shows nothing, just words that are “around” this spelling—experience and experientially. I thought when I first used it that I’d made it up. But there is more to it—from two sides: one]—from the Latin, experiri—which is... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands | Jul 17, 2019
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF DESIGN THINKING | PART FOUR Exploring the emotionality of strategy, the humanity of brand, untethered creativity and the tactics of design management. EXAMINING CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE We’ve got history in the balance between the concept of the... Read More
