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by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Marketing 2.0, Retail, Storytelling | May 31, 2023
Yesterday, NYC, I had a meeting with a friend, client and global consultant to shopping and retail design trends. She and I worked together on her brand, client relationships, and have spoken together in panels for various summits around the US as well as France.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Retail | Sep 7, 2012
These days, the idea of an anniversary is the search for legacy — and there are many that are searching for legacies, threads, reaching back to the soul of earlier years, when another degree of artfulness, more robust storytelling, a new flavoring of history... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Interior Design, Retail | May 6, 2011
Building retail strategies founded on constant change: innovation shop design and merchandising evolutions Blackbird Ballard (Girvin) The wanderer: micro stores, layered storytelling, authentic brands, Nicole Miller | Blackbird [Ballard] and others Brand legend... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Places | Apr 21, 2016
The Quest for Soulful Places As a designer, I find that the work on converting spaces to more meaningful places, which more often than not has to do with the very journey of what soul is supposed to be. Soul is a ancient seed sound — a voicing — for sea, and the point... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0 | Nov 13, 2014
Is Your Brand Truly Open? I went into a shop that I was interested in, excited about — selling mostly Asian antiquities and art. The response was about as welcoming as a bucket full of ice water. I was looking at a site, and I tried to place some things in a “cart,”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Interior Design, Places, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2008
Exploring brand storytelling for restaurant experiences, notations and process. I’d met Antonio Corsano on a recommendation, or a referral, from Paul Bertolli. I’ve talked about this marvelous person in the past. The work with Paul, of course, was building... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Places, Retail, Trends | Sep 26, 2012
Sometimes the best restaurant concepts are the simplest, the most honest, the most direct. They go back to the heart of giving, exchanging and trading enterprise. Asking the core questions — Why [do we love this idea — devoting ourselves to it]? Where... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Storytelling | Sep 10, 2008
True Stories: a quest for narrative in the psyche of hybrid experience. During the 90s, I came to a string of crises in my life – while I was at the epitome of success, the biggest design firm for more than a decade, lots of money, big projects, I was profoundly... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Places | Mar 4, 2014
Conceiving Story in the Procession of Imagination: the Labyrinthine Mind of Orhan Pamuk The journey in is the journey out, a spiral of movement and emotion — “I turn in, follow, I turn out:” that journey continues. I was in Istanbul for a retail... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Jul 14, 2010
PASSIONATENESS Biz 4.0: Really, is there a perfection to business logic and the path to doing it right? Neil and I’ve been trying to meet for a couple of weeks — a new entrepreneur, a millennial business strategist and a passionate (indulge me — a... Read More
