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by Tim Girvin | Brands | Sep 20, 2017
IF YOU BELIEVE IN BRANDING — THAT AN OBJECT HAS MORE POWER AS A BRANDED ENTITY, THEN WHY WOULD THAT BE SO? There is belief at the heart of it. You believe, you love. It’s what you believe in as a brand agent, and what your audiences believe in as participants and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Interior Design, Places, Retail, Scent, Storytelling | Apr 9, 2008
On the 20th, last month, I’d connected with a friend, Tim Lauren, to explore the Store One | Starbucks, Pike Place Market. We’d met, examining, talking about brand management and experience planning. Tim comes from the space of experience design... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 7, 2008
Exploring the principles of art, craft, making and the philosophical vision: Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/ What about Takashi Murakami? “the difference inherent in Japanese and Western artistic practices, and the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Cool People, Designers | Apr 17, 2013
The End that is the Beginning | Brands & Death It might be said that the idea of associating the creative essence of the late Alexander McQueen with a skull is a mistake — a slide off the backside of a brilliant man, who passed in the swirl of an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 28, 2012
Fire & Water Isn’t it so that the making of spirit — the ethanol-effused outcomes of herbal, vegetal, fruit-based titration and filtration — the quintessential search for the soul of boosted and intense flavoring — is one of perpetual... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 10, 2012
Branding innovation labs and their creations Over the course of the last several years, Girvin’s teams have been working in Richland, Washington with PNNL on evolving messaging and positioning strategies for one of the largest research and innovation... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 3, 2011
Exploring the Place of Masculine Fume: the Mind, the Memory, the Mystery of Maleness. There are those that might propose that any man being preoccupied with the idea of scent is a fool. What comes to mind is the self-styled buck that gets on the elevator wafting a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | May 11, 2010
Exploring brands, the equine legacy, design story and materiality Working in Sweden, with a branding program with the luxury group Hästens I found exploring the history of the brand — which, in Swedish, means “Horses” — is intriguingly... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail, Trends | Feb 1, 2010
The sentience of reading experience: Kindle vs. iPad, an exploration of dimensionality. This from GadgetLab: “But some die-hard e-reader fans like Len Edgerly, who hosts the weekly Kindle Chronicles podcast, say pretty e-books aren’t as big a draw as some would... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Apr 13, 2009
The concept of cult, culture and brand | spirit integrated. “I have a dream to devote major portions of my busy life to poor community.” Ratan Tata I’ve spoken about the concept of the cult of the brand, and the tribes that follow it. And others have... Read More