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The Life of Crime | Strategic Brand Design for Justice

The world of brand strategy, and design, extends to crime-fighting. GIRVIN’s bespoke brand design of Crime Stoppers. In our history, we’ve consulted for various police agencies, patrol and security groups, building brands around protection of assets, people and their communities. It takes a particularly assertive sense of presence—something, as a brand that is, shall we say, gripping and powerful. Things go around, and they come back, like GIRVIN’s donated effort for…...

The Life of Crime | Strategic Brand Design for Justice | Girvin | Strategic Branding & Design The world of brand strategy, and design, extends to crime-fighting. GIRVIN’s bespoke brand design of Crime Stoppers. In our history, we’ve consulted for various police agencies, patrol and security groups, building brands around protection of assets, people and their communities. It takes a part...

Brand Connectivity and the Symbolism of Chainmail

Stories, myths, legends, tales—the link to humanity If there’s a story about a person, which might be a legacy, as in a family. It could be a product—a brand—and the perennial GIRVIN question would be: what’s the story, who’s telling it, who is this story for, what’s it sound like, feel like, and most critically—who cares? There are chains, coils, rings that sync and bridge the connections of one to the many—they synchronize a gravity, a pull, traction in the telling....

Brand Connectivity and the Symbolism of Chainmail | Girvin | Strategic Branding & Design Stories, myths, legends, tales—the link to humanity If there’s a story about a person, which might be a legacy, as in a family. It could be a product—a brand—and the perennial GIRVIN question would be: what’s the story, who’s telling it, who is this story for, what’s it sound like, fee...

GIRVIN’s Tailored Typography | Movie Logos

How to illustrate a story with letterform design. My kickoff work on Francis Ford’s Coppola’s "Apocalypse Now,” began with a question: he said, ["can you send me some graffiti logos, I saw your work in U&lc.”] I had no idea what he was talking about, never had done a “logo for a movie.” I took out handmade Japanese washi, Mulberry made—brushes and drew up dozens of ideas—and shipped them all off....

GIRVIN's Tailored Typography | Movie Logos | Girvin | Strategic Branding & Design How to illustrate a story with letterform design. My kickoff work on Francis Ford’s Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” began with a question: he said, [“can you send me some graffiti logos, I saw your work in U&lc.”] I had no idea what he was talking about, never had done a “logo for a movie....

Ann Wilson, and Heart, are on tour again. And so are we, touring with our logo for the Wilsons and the Heart group.