It’s been a big week for The Cloud, here at gapingvoid Central. The Cloud cartoon above went out in the newsletter a couple of days ago, we just got back from a visit from visiting San Antonio, where are friends at Rackspace are headquartered. We hadn’t been there for a over a year. The biggest [...]
[This cartoon (and tweet) went out last Friday, the day after the Twitter IPO was announced.]
Dr. Marla Gottschalk is a woman after my own heart- she’s a physiologist who studies the interaction of space and workplace behavior. She just wrote this great little post on Linked In about how how Office Art is making a comeback, and cites gapoingvoid, to boot [Thanks, Marla!]. “An often overlooked driver of organizational change — [...]
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] This is a business card design I did for my friend, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Tony wrote a great book a few years ago called “Delivering Happiness”, which told the story about how “Culture” was so central to Zappos’ success, how it was so central a priority for [...]
["Wolf vs Sheep". An old favorite.] We’ve been working on a new project lately, still in beta, that has the working title, “The Art Of The Entrepreneur”. (It’s related to our ongoing “Office Art” riff, of course…) Look, I love Modern Art: From Picasso to Matisse, from De Koonig, to Judd, Gorky, Holzer, Haring, Kruger… [...]
[photo: Associated Press] Recently, I wrote some unkind words about the Playboy Marfa roadside attraction. The reasons for my negative reaction were pretty predictable. I mean, why would my dear friends in conservative, West Texas ranch country want a big, neon porn icon in their backyard? And why would Playboy not expect any hostility from [...]
I just got done doing a whole suite of work for Brand ManageCamp, a marketing & brand conference in Las Vegas. You can see more of the drawings over at their blog, here. The Brand ManageCamp mantra is “Dedicated to Inspiring, Educating & Energizing Brands Worldwide”- something we all could all use more of. It [...]
[Sent out in yesterday's newsletter etc.] This cartoon was inspired by a friend of gapingvoid, Josh Thompson. The idea that metrics and people don’t really go together…. yes, it’s a paradox… thus the tension in the cartoon. It’s true that ‘people are a company’s greatest asset”. But, how do you measure that? Answer: With great [...]
[My latest e-book, “Authenticity Is The New Bullshit”, is now available for download here. You can read the Introduction below, or read the whole thing by clicking on the link and signing up to the gapingvoid newsletter. N.B. If you're already a subscriber, just enter your email address again etc.] INTRODUCTION: When I was attending [...]
[photo: landis smithers/playboy] The New Republic has a great article on the controversial Playboy Marfa installation. In case you haven’t heard, Playboy went ahead and built a big ol’ piece of roadside art, just outside the legendary Texas desert art town of Marfa, a place I have a lot of personal history with. I know [...]
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