The cartoon is from Hugh over at
gapingvoid, a cartoonist / blogger who I check out every day.
One of the reasons I love Hugh's work, besides the fact that he is right on with his message and his cartoons really pop, is that
gapingvoid was an inspiration for me to try cartooning over six years ago.
My good friend whom I've never met but have received tons of encouragement from, Matt Calthrop in the UK, went to an event where Hugh MacLeod of
gapingvoid was speaking.
Official Blurb:
Gapingvoid will be at SHRM: 2014 Orlando from June 22nd - 25th this...
For the last wee while,
Gapingvoid has been working with Microsoft, to create a body of work that expresses the company vision under its new...
Besides drawing and posting cartoons, which I've always done and will always do until I die, I believe the focus of
gapingvoid should be something it's riffed on nonstop for the last half - decade.
Soyini Coke serves as the healthcare consultant for
Gapingvoid.
When I first started putting up cartoons onto
gapingvoid in 2001, they were in a small, 400 - pixel - wide format, just like the «Love Letter» cartoon you see above.
Nice to see Knoll, the illustrious furniture company trying to have the same conversation via furniture that
gapingvoid tries to have via office art i.e....
Founded in 2008 with business partner Jason Korman,
Gapingvoid Ltd. has created custom art work for some of the largest, companies in the world, including Intel, HP, Microsoft, Roche, Zappos, VMWare and VW - and is hung in over 5,000 companies around the world.
As you are a special friend of
gapingvoid, we'd be happy to prepare any custom banners for you and your audience, or work with you to create a really special offer just for your community.
When Jason and I launched
Gapingvoid and I became an artist full time, this lesson from 1990's Chicago stood us in good stead from the start.
A gapingvoid greeting card, newly printed, the finest inks on on the finest card stock yada, yada, yada.
Jessica Higgins serves as the COO at
Gapingvoid, a multi-disciplinary team of culture change agents who take a non-conventional approach to creating and transforming workplaces to be productive, positive, and people - centered.
Since I often find myself talking new technologies with clients and colleagues, and often get a lot of resistance to change, both in using new tools and changing habits, this piece from
gapingvoid resonated with me, on both sides...
[The wee animation we did that pretty sums up
the gapingvoid raison d'etre etc] Gape Into The Void Episode 6 — Office Art & The...
OK, so Rackspace and
gapingvoid do it differently.
In this episode of the Gape Into The Void Podcast Hugh and Jason have a chance to catch up with Internet phenomenon, Gary Vaynerchuk, a long - time friend of
gapingvoid.
This is what I meant when Paul Barron asked me, what's next for
gapingvoid, in that terrific video interview he did earlier this year [Towards the end, about 19» 15» into it].
[Source:
gapingvoid] quoted: I was down South last week, attending the London International Wine & Spirit Fair.
Laura holds a degree in Business Management from Royal Holloway University of London, it was creating the retail side of
gapingvoid completely from scratch that taught her the expertise she has today.
Johnno's been building and hosting
gapingvoid since its inception in 2001.
View the archive of
gapingvoid cartoons on the Marketing Society -LSB-...]
[One of my all - time favorites: «I Choose This Life»][Visit
the gapingvoid Love Store here] I always like drawing a new «Love Cartoon».
Here at
gapingvoid, we see many office spaces.
You can see couple of the personal commissions Hugh did last year below for
gapingvoid friends Tom McCallum and Robert Dow.
Fun fact: we're just over 50 % in women to men here at
Gapingvoid Culture Design Group.
Here at
gapingvoid, we feel very honored.
This t - shirt gig got us thinking at
gapingvoid Central, why can't Valentines» Day (a big day in our calendar, already) be an opportunity to go beyond Romance, to communicate to those who matter to you, that they matter, that you care, and that we are all in this together?
Maybe you can put them in
your gapingvoid wiki, and let us tag them; Or maybe start a Flickr album or something...
And then he graciously posed in front of the piece now proudly hanging in his office [with
gapingvoid props scattered everywhere, tongue slightly in cheek etc etc.].
Anyway, yeah, I can see
gapingvoid being a «product» one day.
He is also an incredibly talented artist and creative, with an institutional knowledge of
the gapingvoid brand.
If you are already part of the Linkshare network you can easily search for «
gapingvoid art» and request to be added as a publisher.
This is awesome: We did another little Slideshare presentation about how
gapingvoid makes art for entrepreneurs.
Gapingvoid: Effective Visual Strategies for Business from
gapingvoid [We're keeping this post on top of the homepage for a while, just to make sure people...
«Social Object» given a small mention etc. [From «Free Cartoons As Social Objects»: May, 2008] When I first started putting up cartoons onto
gapingvoid in 2001, they were in a small, 400 - pixel - wide format, just like the «Love Letter» cartoon you see above.
[Checking out
the gapingvoid art hanging over at Studio Good etc.] «Office Art That Actually Matters» is the unofficial tagline for gapingvoid, at least that's...
Just like our own
gapingvoid newsletter, but for your business and people.
They're «Hugh Cards» — as in
Gapingvoid Gallery that are drawn from the extensive library of cartoons by my old friend Hugh MacLeod.
-LSB-...] Put a smile on your face every morning: subscribe to
gapingvoid's daily email.
[Sent out earlier in
the gapingvoid newsletter etc:] Picasso, the greatest painter of the twentieth century, didn't sit around on his rear end all day,...
The only issue is how much does it cost to get the demographically - correct eyeballs to log onto
gapingvoid.
Early on, we (i.e. the entire
gapingvoid team - Me, Jason, Laura, Sam etc) noticed that a business is only as good as the conversations it has with people, both inside and outside the organization [i.e. classic Cluetrain parlance].
Long - time readers of
gapingvoid will remember from early 2004, when I spent a lot of time talking about my friend, Dave MacKenzie's film «Young Adam».
Check out my newly - revised «About
Gapingvoid» page.
Complete with on - message
gapingvoid cartoons and written content that people will actually want to read, engage with, forward to their friends.
[UPDATE: Because I want people to see it, I'm keeping this as a placeholder at the top of
the gapingvoid homepage for a while.
[Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist and co-founder of
gapingvoid, a company specializing in creating art to affect real business outcomes and corporate culture for companies like Microsoft and Zappos.
So when can we expect a line of limited edition
gapingvoid t - shirts?