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by Tim Girvin | Uncategorized | Jan 19, 2008
Given some intriguing alignments, it’s time to consider film in the context of luxury storytelling. And there are two present time movements that speak to this abrupt emergence. And there’s a personal winding, to the concept of film making and luxury brand... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Trends | Feb 10, 2022
MEDITATIONS ON REMOTE WORK. THE SEARCH FOR MEANINGFUL BEAUTY, THE QUEST FOR ACTIVE FOCUS IN ATTENTION AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE STRATEGY OF WORKING IN REMOTE LOCATIONS—SO-CALLED: WORKING SOMEPLACE YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. An old scrap of handmade paper, hanging in a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Incubation, Storytelling | Jun 14, 2017
FUTURE FORWARD | BRAND STRATEGIES AND INTENTIONAL IGNITION TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE. Brief creativity? Can creativity be defined in a brief? Probably not. What is a creative brief — and is there a point to being brief? In a cycle of a half-decade, more often than not,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | May 3, 2017
Once you begin your walk into the working world of perfume, you’ll find that there is a place for you. There is a vale that holds scented secrets that are just for you, that just reach into your heart and the most profoundly happy memories of your life as a human,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Retail | Oct 4, 2023
GIRVIN’s 50 years old—speaking of finely-aged, so we have history, and it runs back to wines that we’ve produced ourselves, gifted wines and wine brands we’ve built for enterprises in the US, Asia and Canada. Wines are, as everyone knows, particularly challenging... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail | May 16, 2023
The game goes on. Forever. Obviously, as the design agency of record for Nintendo, in the legacy of our history of brand design in the 80s-90s, we walked the storytelling from design thinking, gamer trials and testing, briefs from Japan’s designers and the... Read More
by GIRVIN | Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Aug 29, 2018
IN THE SCHOLARLY WALK-BACK IN DESIGN TIME, COULDN’T YOU LOOK INTO THE SCRIPTED CALLIGRAPHY OF A TIME OF CENTURIES BEFORE? YOU SHALL STUDY THAT WHICH EXHALED LIFE INTO THE WRITTEN NOTATIONS OF MARY STUART’S ASTONISHING LIFE. You could go back. To go forward, look back,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands | Dec 27, 2011
Those that own the brands, own the story to hold the brand — and in offering that, carry forward their own story. Setting style, imagination, art and the making of scene, scent sent. “She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living.” Designer and film... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Dec 19, 2009
Early counsel: the strategy on brand identity, for one of the best motion picture brand developers in the world. A number of years, back, I had the opportunity to work with James Cameron and his marketing team on the conception of the Abyss. That being, in particular,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail | Dec 14, 2008
I’ve been looking for truth. I’m looking for truth in my self — what do I do, in practicing what I tell, preach, to others. And telling the truth in the reign of the firm — what we do, what we offer, and how we go about doing it, in finding the truth and the heart of... Read More
