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by Tim Girvin | Brands, Designers, General, Interior Design, Luxury, Retail | Mar 18, 2008
I was favored with the opportunity to partner with the leadership of Yves Saint Laurent | North America in the development of a brand retail strategy for their flagship store, to be rolled out nationally. How done? We used Girvin’s proprietary BrandQuest®... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Interior Design, Retail, Scent | Dec 7, 2012
Diptyque | Paris Perfumed Environments: The Design of the Fragranced Retail Experience To every product, there is a story, to every story, there is a telling — and in every telling, there is a person that offers that tale. In this sequence of blogs, the notations have... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Dec 11, 2014
3M: Memory, Mental and Meaning. Sometimes we push a proposition in our work on brandspace that fails to take into consideration the bridging to a human scenario of mindfulness, meaning and the context of memory. All are — as would be obvious — aligned. But the notion... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Interior Design, Places | May 20, 2014
The layering of textured sensation at Comme des Garçons | Dover Street Market | NYC In one’s career, there are intersections, points at which you make a crossroads crossing — you come into the intersection going one way, and you leave that, as crossing... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Scent | Jul 13, 2008
Exploring layering in brand story — what is the story, the brand, the person, the work? In Firenze, I had a chance to spend some time with someone that I’ve admired for a long time — Jon Bresler. Founder of LAFCO. Jon Bresler in the atelier 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 | Brands, Concepts, Designers, General, Luxury, Retail, Trends | Apr 2, 2008
Exploring the concept of an emerging dark luster in design, it might be more so about the exhausting confusion and difficulties of the present market — and the swirling chaos of the near future. What’s happening now? Is the end nigh? Or night, near? What... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, General, Scent, Trends | Mar 15, 2008
Everything smells. Every thing — scents. There are layers to scent in experience. It’s all about what you remember, what you hold — what scene, seen? What there was, in experience, that lent you to some level of exposure. That recalls — that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Mar 8, 2008
The OED: “brandish” — Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Paula Rees. She’s a placemaker. Her... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Nov 21, 2013
Branding and The Court of Boom: Design + Squash Racquet Play More than 20 years back, I began to train for the game of squash. I was looking for a complicated, high-fitness game, that was as much about physical stamina and agility as it was about craft — the... Read More
