PR for People Monthly August 2013 | Page 20

Tim Girvin is an award-winning American designer concentrating on branding and packaging design. His company, Girvin | Strategic Branding and Design, was founded in 1977. It is now called Girvin.His work is uniquely diversified. The practice revolves around Girvin's thinking about branding as aligning strategy with storytelling, emotional content with tactical planning and experience design integration.

Creative offerings range from motion picture brand development—being responsible for several hundred cinema identity programs including The Matrix brandmarks, to the website design of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the physical design of the new Microsoft museum, restaurants, shops and related experience design programs.

As a strategist, writer and charrette leader, Tim Girvin actively directs many of the firm's creative projects. The firm's principles have been in practice for more than 30 years, Girvin's size has ranged from the founding in the 70s with only several people, to well over 80 employees in the 90s, to a current size of more than 22 creatives, in NYC and Seattle, along with an alliance in Tokyo.

Their clients range from startups and incubation brand development offerings, to full-scale integrated strategic branding and design initiatives for clients for Ameristar, Borgata / Echelon, Capezio, CBS, Coca-Cola, Disney, Halekulani hotel, Johnson & Johnson, Kerzner, Kraft Foods, Nabisco, MGM / Mirage Resorts, Dubai, P&G, Wynn, Yves Saint Laurent and other high profile clients, many of whom are celebrities. During the book summit, Girvin will give a presentation on “The Human Brand.”

For more on Tim Girvin follow our link to his press kit here.

on the

“Human Brand”

at the Seattle Book Summit

Tim

Girvin