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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Marketing 2.0, Motion Pictures, Retail | Mar 30, 2010
Image © Warner Brothers Cinematic brand alignments, at the end of the world. I’ve worn Oakley glasses for a long time. In fact, at the last adventure, I lost my last pair — which have probably been around the world at least twice. To the end of considering... 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, Concepts | Sep 3, 2015
The Brand, the Mind, the Memory Cloud mind: the metaphor of fluent vapor — the clouded allegory in the context of computing, burgeoning creative, a multiplicity of minds: amassed. Everywhere, the process of strategy, design and brand is an intermixture of allegory,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Oct 21, 2014
The Signature of Your Presence You have style. Sure, there are your clothes. Your shoes. Your hair Your house, your apartment, your car — and the summary of your brand relationships. Then there is the style of you. Who are you — what do you stand for? What do you care... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers | May 29, 2014
ONE STORY, ONE PERSON It’s interesting how a journey in the life of a designer will take them out to the ends of many roads in their explorations — and those roads might lead back, to the very beginning from which they first found insight into the deeper meaning of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2008
Brand explorations of choppers, hot rods, tattoos, pin striping and the art of kustom kulture: Don Ed Hardy and Von Dutch. How might that alignment be imagined — a link between the above? I’ve been exploring invented brand culture — that, in the one,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Storytelling | Jul 18, 2013
Billboarding, postering the story in the story in the story. [Imagery from PSFK] We’ve designed dozens of posters, an earlier legacy of work. But we love this Black Sabbath promotion, pointed out by Daniela Walker and “DaBitch.” As Daniela notes,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Jan 26, 2011
THE LONG REACH | Story Flow and Dispersal — the Nature of Influence and Connection: Crowd Panic Strategies Crowds, panic, flow, clustering and the flow of information — Brands, stories, communities — observations at the roadside. How does one story... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Scent | Jul 16, 2010
Exploring the concept of memory, experience and the layering of the scented, working in Paris: the evocation of the perfumes of women and the metaphor of place and fragrance design. (Photo: Girvin) A friend of mine asked that I offer something — a quick essay... Read More
