Search results for: brand storytelling
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Nov 15, 2009
Notes on the choreography of experience: brandstories, the art of dance, life and business entwined. A long and complex titling, that is; but it’s the title for an exploration on the alignment between dance and fire, and movement, and life, and love, and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Dec 23, 2011
Will meaningful brands empower the strategy of business direction: 2012? In these days, exploring the soul of brand in the human enterprise, we find the quest for meaning to be a recurrent theme. We are compelled — in the trade of Girvin — to explore the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Storytelling | Jun 15, 2021
SOMETIMES YOU GO BACKWARDS IN TIME TO GO FORWARDS TO THE FUTURE. AND THE SYMBOLISM OF THE INTERLOCKING CHAIN OF MANY STORIES FORMS THE TRAIL OF A TALE, A NARRATIVE THREAD—WHICH COULD BE FROM THE PAST, WHICH COMES TO THE PRESENT, WOVEN IN THE INTERLINKED... 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 | Incubation, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jun 2, 2021
TACTICAL INSIGHTS FOR REMOTE PRESENTATIONS TALKING TO A STRING OF FRIENDS—SALES PEOPLE–ABOUT PRESENTING REMOTELY, IT IGNITED SOME MEDITATIONS ON AN EARLIER PROJECT, “SUSPECT ZERO.” We’re all living in a time of “remote viewing,” that optimistically will soon be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 15, 2020
THE MEDITATION ON PROCESSION | BRAND STORYTELLING AND *EXPERIENTIALITY How do you listen to a story? How does that work—the yarn drawn and you being woven into the tapestry of tale. We think like that—the twice-told telling, that which is unforgettable. The power in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0 | Mar 27, 2024
You can always think poetically—”there’s a poem somewhere in this work.” There’s an allegory inside this brand—it’s the tiny enterprise, climbing the massive mountain towards a new vista—a new view to the world, and the community of their offering. There’s no... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Places, Retail | Jan 7, 2013
Building a brand around legacy and re-integrating authenticity in brand storytelling. I first met Jeff Chandler, speaking in a string of workshops for “young presidents [YPO] and executives on the notion of the “humanity” of brands, building brands... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Incubation, Storytelling | Dec 16, 2020
BRAND OBSERVATIONS, PARTICIPATION IN WATCHFULNESS. In the past, in my observations of brand experiencers, it has been a long journey—and a string of compelling notations of learnings about people and how they relate to brands. I think back to my beginnings, working on... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Human brands, Luxury, Storytelling | May 12, 2016
THE LUXURY OF AUTHENTIC BRANDS Love counts in the practice of making true. The heart of the genuine: exploring the concepts of authenticity, history, brands and the place of luxury. I’d open with the meaning — and the combinational character of the idea of truth and... Read More
