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Career Hierarchy
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] I don’t know about you, but it took me twenty years to get from the bottom to the …
"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, …
Marcus Aurelius
[Originally sent out in the newsletter etc.] [Buy the print] Besides being a Roman Emperor (and damn good one) , Marcus Aurelius was also one …
On 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 …
"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 …
The Paradox of Fear
When I was a young student in late-1980s London, I met the really well-known and respected heavyweight art director, Mark Reddy. Mark was already a …
The Hughtrain, Mark Two
THE HUGHTRAIN MkII 1. The market for something to believe in is infinite. We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people …
Liz Strauss
I stole this off the Internet; a photograph taken by my old Twitter pal, Amber Osborne of a print I designed for Liz Strauss’ recent …
The conversation I want to be having…
The conversation I want to be having is all about how are, business and culture collide. Art informs culture, culture informs business, therefore QED: Art …
Hughtreats
How lovely. My friends over at Rackspace’s social media group sent me and the team a wee box of “Hughtreats”, based on the litle …
Generation Um: "An increasingly rare bird: an original and compelling New York movie. …
[Generation Um…] When I set up this blog in 2001, one of the first things I did was write about the New-York-inspired cartoon above, and …
Art & Food
The woman who makes cakes for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a new book out. Very cool. It seems with every passing …
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