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by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Feb 8, 2011
1.27.2011 Men Are Drawn to Competition-Based Pay Men were 94% more likely than women to apply for a job if its salary potential was described as being highly dependent on competition with other employees, according to John List of the University of Chicago. The online... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Nov 1, 2010
Piano, noise, and translation: genius + the human brand > a sound making tool Linking up with friend Josh LaBelle, creative director, musical maestro at Seattle Theatre Group (I used to be a board member there), I had the chance to reconnect — after decades... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jul 22, 2010
What are you paying attention to? And in that equation, what are your customers paying intention to? What drives them to intentionally pay attention? There’s tension in that balance. Sometime back, I’d connected with Lynda Weinman and her husband, Bruce... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Jul 19, 2010
What is the myth, brand storytelling: the legend, the narrative that lies in the heart of the brand proposition? Karl Lagerfeld by Karl Lagerfeld (by Girvin) I was talking to a client about the concept of legendary culture and it set me thinking to the concept of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Trends | Jun 25, 2010
The collaboration of the crowd, inspiration in community, creativity and sharing. As a strategist, as a storyteller, a designer, I’ve been working and circulating the world for 35 years +. But of course, I’ve been living some 20 years beyond that. In the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | May 18, 2010
Tim Girvin and Jack Larsen, at his Park Avenue Studio A fashion archetype, reconsidered. I was relieved to hear that the bow tie is coming back. Somewhere around ten years back I’d moved past that detail — the suit, the oxford shirt, the bow tie. That was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Jun 20, 2009
Who do you trust? Facebook search engine results? Your friend’s a brand. Google has long been the apex of search mechanisms, beating out the rivals of Yahoo, and still, so too, emergent entity bing.com. But Google has its sights on the social space, such as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | May 26, 2009
Jorge Colombo | cover illustration, the New Yorker, June 2009 Starting at the beginning, the mouse, the magic, the drawn and the digital. Of course, really, it all starts here, in drawing — the touch of the fingers, with insight, interpretation and meditation.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands | Jul 31, 2024
The Strategy and Design of Mystically-Inspired Brands In our history, we’ve had a string of opportunities to collaborate with brand partners who are different in their visioning of their enterprises— rather than focusing, for typical partners, on the notion of “how... Read More
