Search results for: brand patterning
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Oct 11, 2009
Brand strategy exploration: Yves Saint Laurent | Girvin: 2007 For a presentation on entrepreneurship, branding and emotional content to the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore GIRVIN’S FOCUS has been directed to the concept of brand development and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Oct 12, 2023
With our coming into 50 years of continuous involvement in brand strategy and integrated design— and as coffee connoisseurs—we’ve savored this brewed beverage all over the world, from Seattle to NYC—Maui too, LA to Vancouver, Java and Bali. We’ve studied coffee... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Apr 20, 2009
Probing the hidden hints of mind, in brand, in experience. Martin Lindstrom is perhaps the most “branded” persona in branding. He’s young, unabashedly on a flame accelerant when it comes to fueling his ideas, research, and global traveling insights... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Aug 18, 2008
Any brand is human. A brand fire is started by a person. It comes from a human spirit and mind: it’s made for humans. Human brand. Interestingly enough, this simple equation is sometimes forgotten. People focus on transactions, engineering commerce — and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0 | Dec 10, 2007
The brand story as a communications tool, in brand management and experience design. What is brand, what is story, what is message, what is experience? What changes are emerging in the concept of branding, storytelling, community and communications? What direction, if... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Apr 15, 2011
Brooklyn microshops — a complexity of sensorial engagements | Girvin photography Brand soul placement, finding the applications of presence in impression and experience design. I’d given a talk, at an international retail design forum at Starbucks... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Trends | Nov 8, 2009
Photo A indulgent luxury that is flourishing even in recessionary challenges. It’s what we walk on. It’s what we walk with. Or what we’ve got on our feet. And for some of us, the concept of the shoe is just “down there”, something to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jun 14, 2010
Exploring the detailed visioning of leadership in brand management. This article appeared in the June issue of Arcade | Architecture and Design in the Northwest. Fire. BRANDFIRE | A culture of passion What lies beneath I think we need to be thinking about our... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts | Mar 4, 2020
THERE’S A BRAND THAT YOU KNOW, ONE THAT IS CLEAR, CLARIFIED—YOU KNOW WHAT IT STANDS FOR. AND THERE IS A BRAND THAT IS FOGGED—IT’S UNCLEAR, VAGUE AND FORMLESS. WHICH DO YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH? What is a brand? It’s a marked enterprise that has a coherent link... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 5, 2019
THE WHORL OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS. A brand is like a spiral—could be a channel, could be the opening of a drain, could be a spigot pouring forth—but in one way or another—it’s a channel: outflow, inflow. Its success will be the fluency of its convergence—the... Read More
