Damn. Here We Are.

[buy the print etc] [news­let­ter] A CEO would need a lot of cajo­nes to hang this one in the office. It’s pretty con­ten­tious. Cul­tu­rally spea­king, its nitrogly­ce­rin. But the thing is, there are two ways of rea­ding it: [One:] Oy vey, this com­pany is a mess. Some­body please shoot me. [Two:] Guys, beco­ming a com­pany where this […]

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gapingvoid Business Cards

Link: gaping­void busi­ness cards now avai­la­ble on moo.com!

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Career Hierarchy

[Ori­gi­nally sent out in the news­let­ter etc.] I don’t know about you, but it took me to get from the bot­tom to the top of the pyra­mid. And I don’t think that’s outra­geously long com­pa­red to most peo­ple, I really don’t. Was it worth it? I don’t know, is being alive worth it? It’s some­ti­mes temp­ting to […]

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Marcus Aurelius

[Ori­gi­nally sent out in the news­let­ter etc.] [Buy the print] Besi­des being a Roman Empe­ror (and damn good , Mar­cus Aure­lius was also Stoic phi­lo­sophers. His “Medi­ta­tions” is self-help books, and it’s ama­zing how much of it still applies today. Besi­des being a fan­tas­tic read, the inte­res­ting thing about Medi­ta­tions for me is, they were writhad […]

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“Keep the day job”.

There’s a great article in Slate [Thanks to Aus­tin Kleon for the link] about how a lot of famous artists mana­ged to still do their thing while still hol­ding down a regu­lar, long-term day job. Joseph Cor­nell, artists, was men­tio­ned: The artist Joseph Cor­nell strug­gled with this arran­ge­ment. He made his first sha­dow box in […]

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Office Art: “Just as the Internet blurred the work/life divide, the Internet is now blurring the art/business divide.”

[Bar­bara Kru­ger. Untit­led (I shop the­re­fore I am). 111″ by 113″. Pho­to­graphic silkscreen/vinyl,  1987. Cour­tesy of the Mary Bo.] PART ONE: Back in my young, early, I got really inte­res­ted in the work of Bar­bara Kru­ger (she uses words and pic­tu­res, so it makes sense, right?). I hadn’t dis­co­ve­red her work through an art gallery, […]

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BIG NEWS: gapingvoid is now publishing cartoon business cards with Moo.com

  Ins­pi­ra­tion by gaping­void   Love by gaping­void   gaping­void for Busi­ness   gaping­void for Entre­pre­neurs   gap­gin­void Love [Order your cards from Moo.com here etc.] [Moo’s announ­ce­ment on their blog here.]   As y’all know, I got my start from “dra­wing car­toons on the back of busi­ness cards”… A cou­ple of years later, after dra­wing a few […]

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gapingvoid and Moo.com team up to offer killer printed business cards

Say hello to our friends at gaping­void [Ori­gi­nally pos­ted by Rebeka on the Moo blog, 28th March] It should come as no sur­prise that we’re pretty big fans of Busi­ness Cards here at MOO. We’re pas­sio­nate about great design and stan­ding out from the crowd. We believe Busi­ness Cards should be a con­ver­sa­tion star­ter  –  something to be kept and acted […]

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Path Interview with Hugh MacLeod

[Ori­gi­nally published on the Path blog, here.] As long­time fans of artist Hugh Mac­Leod and his work, it was a no-brainer for us to ask him to create cus­tom stic­ker packs to be used in mes­sa­ging. Here, Hugh chats with us about his work, his ins­pi­ra­tions, and his crea­tive colla­bo­ra­tion with Path. Q: Among other things, you’re […]

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Culture Hacking: America’s next big industry?

This is how I see it. And it isn’t roc­ket science: 1. If you want to change your busi­ness, you also have to change your cul­ture. If you want to change your cul­ture, you also have to change your art. 2. And that’s where gaping­void comes in– crea­ting art and ideas that express, reflect, arti­cu­late what […]

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His 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 Republic
Lydia Depillis

Last 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
Former President, Babson College

Hugh MacLeod is a genius.  Genius.

Seth Godin
Best Selling Author

In moments of indecision I glance at the wall for guidance.

Brian Clark
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