[This is not just a love poem, it could also be a corporate mission, perhaps?] My friends over at PSFK posted a really neat interview with Jesse Levin, who runs the most audacious co-working space I think I’ve ever seen. It’s not just another co-working space in Brooklyn… Nope, it’s all that, plus a gym […]
[Buy the print etc.] I was thinking about “Business as a spiritual exercise”. It’s been on my mind a lot lately. Sounds kinda weird, right? Capitalism and spiritualism aren’t exactly known for being synonymous. But then I was thinking about how work and spiritualism are often paired. Think of a master Zen carpenter, or master […]
["Erroneous Belief": the very first cartoon I ever published online, back in 1999. Seems like a couple of lifetimes ago etc.] 1. One of the early inventors of blogging, my old friend Dave Winer is trying to reclaim that thing that blogging was first designed for. Blogging needs our help, he tells us. The mission of […]
[Shortly after my career tanked in 2000, I drew this cartoon. This is what failure felt like at the time.] 1. Anyone with a successful business will know this to be true: That business gets successful eventually, not by some flawlessly-executed grand vision, but by a lot of trial and error (mostly error) over a […]
(This post is part of an ongoing series with Brian Solis ”17 Cartoons That Will Change Your Business,” inspired by Brian’s book, “What’s The Future Of Business?” To sign up for the gapingvoid newsletter and download the above image for your use please CLICK HERE.) The old advice was always to do one thing, and do it well. […]
[Sent out in the newsletter etc.] “Success” is a pretty blurry, vague, annoyingly relative construct. Asking someone to define it is just an exercise in tiresome blather, therefore I won’t bother. What I will say, however, is that if you’re doing something the genuinely matters to the world, and you’re doing it surrounded […]
Dave shows off his latest Rackspace swag, a black snuggie blanket and my latest “Love Matters” t-shirt that we recently made for them. Like I said before, I know it embarrasses the grown-ups to say this, but… Love matters in Business, as much as anywhere else. Rackspace knows this as much as any client […]
(This post is part of an ongoing series with Brian Solis ”17 Cartoons That Will Change Your Business,” inspired by Brian’s book, “What’s The Future Of Business?” To sign up for the gapingvoid newsletter and download the above image for your use please CLICK HERE.) It’s the one customer out of a hundred who is going to post […]
We really admire Alan de Botton’s view on the power of art – to paraphrase his great 2011 TED Talk: It is ridiculous that art be simply for art’s sake, art should be used to remind us if what there is to love, hate and fear- art should be a visceral encounter with your most […]
Short Version: We make "Motivational Art For Smart People".
Long Version: I’m Hugh MacLeod. I’m a cartoonist. I'm also a published author and have a daily cartoon newsletter that makes tens of thousands of people happy, five days a week.
gapingvoid was founded by me (Chief Creative) and Jason Korman (CEO) to effect change in business, using my distinct style of drawing.
i.e. "If you're trying to change your business' culture, you should be talking to us."
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Clients include Rackspace, Intel, Cisco, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Babson College, Techcrunch, Dewar’s Whisky etc.
People ask, as an artist, why are you so obsessed with the office? And I answer, because that is where the action is, that is where we make things happen, that's where we spend at least a third of our lives.
Sure, there are other places where the human drama unfolds: homes, bars, restaurants, schools, shops, the street etc. But considering how central business is to our lives, I find it odd that more people don’t understand how important art can be to the work environment. So gapingvoid is determined to help them understand that better.
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Hugh MacLeod is a genius. Genius.
Seth GodinHis work acknowledges the absurdity of workaday life, while also encouraging employees to respond with passion, creativity, and non-conformity... MacLeod’s work is undeniably an improvement over the office schlock of yore. At its best, it’s more honest, and more cognizant of the entrepreneurial psyche, while still retaining some idealism.
The New RepublicLast year my State of the College address was 76 slides loaded with data. This year it was 14 cartoons that were substantially more memorable.
Len Schlesinger"There are only two daily newsletters that I look forward to opening and reading every time they show up to my inbox: Seth Godin's and gapingvoid."
Tony HsiehIn moments of indecision I glance at the wall [to Hugh's work] for guidance.
Brian Clark