The gapingvoid Affiliate Program
[Sign up here] We’ve started an affiliate program! As you know, we pay our bills by selling prints and tee shirts of our art (along with a lot of cool animation and corporate work). I wanted to let...
View ArticleOn cartooning
[Originally published, September, 2007] December (2007) marks the 10-year anniversary of my “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” format. Here’s some random notes on the subject, in no...
View Article"Everyone Hates Our Idea"
[Originally sent out in the gapingvoid newsletter etc.] Nobody will like your idea at first. Again, it’s all got to do with change. New ideas, good and bad, mean change. And people are hardwired to...
View Articlethe new gapingvoid homepage
This weekend the gapingvoid homepage made a big change that was a long time coming- now you you no longer have to be a friend or family to ‘get’ what we do The actual business model is the same as...
View Article"How To Be Creative", still going strong
In case you haven’t seen it yet, my seminal PDF, “How To Be Creative” is probably the best thing I ever wrote. And yes, it’s still free. First published in 2004, the last time I counted (and that was...
View Article“Meaningful brands outperform stock market by 120%”.
Havas CEO David Jones tweeted the following news story earlier tonight: “Meaningful brands outperform stock market by 120%”. 120%. And why is that, you ask? Perhaps it’s related to something Seth Godin...
View Article"Office Art That Actually Matters"
[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 the one we’ve been using, that’s our...
View ArticleNew Slideshow: 17 Cartoons That Will Change Your Business
Part technology, part people, part change, “the future of business” is different than we think. The Future of Business is also the big idea behind the latest book by my friend, Brian Solis, which i...
View Article"Outrageous Fortune": Why "Culture" In Business Matters.
[When companies get too successful to fast, this often happens…] Does this ever happen to you? A person that you’ve known forever, maybe since you were kids, suddenly becomes very wealthy? Winning the...
View ArticleMy New Year Message for 2014: Choose your mountain to die on.
Like I said in my first book, “Ignore Everybody”, everybody was has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb. Some people go their who lives without ever finding their...
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