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by Tim Girvin | Interior Design, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Nov 3, 2006
I was working back east, around Princeton and elsewhere out there, and came to this new modeling for Puma. I really like the floors, which seem like they are made of some kind of silvery slop, hardened. And there are other really strange materials as well — spongy... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Mar 27, 2014
THE LEGEND OF CULT AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF CULTURE In an engaged manner, culture appeals most inherently to the idea of cultivation. A metaphor of gardens, flowering and nurturing growth. In the cultural revolution of the world inside brands, the longest shadow from... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 18, 2022
BACK IN SPOKANE, I FOUND THIS PANEL THAT I DREW FOR MY PARENTS; STILL THERE, NEXT TO THE PIANO. THE MEDITATION ON THE ANSWER OF UPLIFT—YES! I went to Spokane to see my family—my Mother and Father, for a check in—both in their 90s, there has been a health-related... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Storytelling | Jan 17, 2018
Signs are symbols of storytelling, of legend and legacy, of badges that reach out as cards of narrative fortune. There are clues in the cultural rendition of the larger messages of enterprise in the form of signs — and as placards, they offer a storytelling of color,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 3, 2016
The hand with heart holds more I was wandering, looking down old alleys, plazas and ancient streets. And I spied an old friend. The Hamsa. خمسة | חַמְסָה The Five. I used to wear one of these in college, during another phase of talismanic connection. I lost it... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Human brands | Jun 10, 2014
The patterning of the human in the marketspace of brand. Strategy, story, name, message & imagery. Where is that person going, how would they tell their story — and why should I care — what’s their name, what’s the real message that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Scent | Jul 13, 2008
Exploring layering in brand story — what is the story, the brand, the person, the work? In Firenze, I had a chance to spend some time with someone that I’ve admired for a long time — Jon Bresler. Founder of LAFCO. Jon Bresler in the atelier of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General, Scent | Nov 24, 2007
http://www.amouage.com/ What’s the story, what’s the layering behind the fragrance, that leads to the story. Fanny Adams, Paris, tells this story. November is also a month to celebrate for Middle Eastern perfume company Amouage, which launches two new... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Places | Mar 26, 2007
The last day was that last tango with the minds of the wildly ranging talent that is TED. More adventures, more risk, more exposures. And it’s all about that risk. Exploding the trust of what you are, what you can be. That might be a thread — breaking the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 4, 2013
The farmer in you | II Planting the seeds of ideals, dreams, the promise in the mission of creativity I’d written a blog, just back, with meditations on the archetypal character of Dodge’s “farmer in you” advertising. Storytelling from various... Read More
