Search results for: human brands
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 | Brands, Designers, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Jul 19, 2011
Sometimes, in our attempts to process and organize, we forget the beauty of the chaotic milieu — where things aren’t really as nicely laid out as we might have imagined. Projects seem to drift off into a differing continuum — there are challenges in... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | Apr 15, 2011
Brooklyn microshops — a complexity of sensorial engagements | Girvin photography Brand soul placement, finding the applications of presence in impression and experience design. I’d given a talk, at an international retail design forum at Starbucks... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Aug 26, 2009
Exploring the construct of brand, community, enterprise and the work that we do. I’ve been a designer for a long time; and working in the creative space is in my blood. My mother was a painter, an artist in every sense of the world, the word. My father is a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Concepts | Jul 25, 2024
The Person, the expression of Presence and the Brand Every time that you’re working on an enterprise, the proposition of brand, it’s always about people; it’s the people that built it, those that work in and around it, and finally, the community that is in thrall to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands, Storytelling | Mar 10, 2015
Contexts of Nomenclature and Meaning. According to the Greeks, “the etymon is the name of the true thing.” Etymos=true. What that means is that a name is a deep name, and that the truth would be told. Etymon — comes from the Greek for “truth” — and powerful names for... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands, Storytelling | Feb 17, 2014
2011, photograph by ©Steve Henke The Agent, An Axiom of Ayurvedic Principles, the Founder of Aveda, Intelligent Nutrients, Moves On. Remarkable people have a weaver-like mingling of a tapestried storytelling that frames out the threading of their lives — they... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Human brands | Nov 5, 2012
The design strategy of simplification A friend, Stuart Balcomb, a musician and composer in Venice, California, reminded me of something, to design — and Steve Jobs. I worked as a consultant to Apple, at the behest of Steve Jobs in the late 70s, early 80s. I met... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Storytelling | Jan 24, 2008
There is a mythic dimension in the character of storytelling; it’s an ancient tradition — it reaches to deep archetypes and cyclical patterns that show themselves repeating ways in which messages can be understood and shared — and how they can be... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands | Jan 10, 2024
Brand Magic, the Succession of Time, and the Portals of Perception The very nature of brands is entirely wrapped around people—“who built the brand, and for whom did they build it?” Otherwise, to GIRVIN’s parlance:“what’s the story, who’s telling it, who’s listening,... Read More
