Search results for: brand patterning
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Dec 21, 2009
Exploring the creation of brands > innovations strategy The initiation of my relationship with many brands has come on the locus of change. Fast change, in branding. Working with P&G, Nintendo and Nabisco started with innovation and acceleration programs. It... 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
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Sep 12, 2018
THE DESIGN OF THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW. Isn’t it so that there’s a pattern? As a person that’s been writing strategy and designing for just short of a half century, I get around. See things. I see into things as a designer and a professional; and I see things as a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | May 31, 2023
Yesterday, NYC, I had a meeting with a friend, client and global consultant to shopping and retail design trends. She and I worked together on her brand, client relationships, and have spoken together in panels for various summits around the US as well as France.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Aug 4, 2016
Start-up Brand Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Wachowski Brothers and Stan Lee. By Tim Girvin — with Social Media commentaries and recommendations by Fletcher Helle When there is a lesson to be learned, listening makes for the best course of cumulative action. Learn and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Apr 15, 2014
Brandspirit and the building of spiritual and mystical brands What is the shadow brand, and what is the brand of light? For a long time, it’s been said — “you can’t use that word ‘spiritual’ around business people, it will scare... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Sep 11, 2009
The wheel brandstory: art brand or brand art There’s an art to brand, and brand to art — I’ve noted that idea before, in the work of Koons. But this story is different — and if you go no further, then at least look at this link: Anyone savoring... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Storytelling | Aug 29, 2024
Thinking metaphorically, there are plenty of symbolic allegories between the notion of brand building, design strategies, messaging and storytelling. You—brand designer, brand thinker, theorist, strategist—when you think of brand, the notion of a constructed and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 14, 2021
EVERYONE HAS A CHALLENGING TIME. “WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT TIME?” How do you get through that? There are a couple of pathways for me. Reading is one— reading, a lot. Another is drawing—in two pathways of work; one: more as in a non-thinking fluency-based form of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands | Jan 23, 2025
Could a brand be so beautiful that it should be made into jewelry? “Sure,” says Susy Korb, an earlier Creative Director at Tiffany&Co., she asked, “Could we create a font that could be used in our print, as well as for actual fabrication into precious... Read More