Articles by Joshua Blankenship from March 2019

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Henry Ford...

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As the President and Founding Member of the Mandy Blankenship Fan Club, I would be remiss in my duties if I didnt share her recent interview on the Mother Maker podcast, an online magazine featuring c...

The guest is an incarnation of God. Asma Khan, Chefs Table S6E3...

Matt Yow gives a solid review of The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes and how its changed the way he approaches identity design, brand messaging, and ...

It doesnt matter if its good right now, it just needs to exist. Austin Kleon...

When I relaunched this blog last month, some of the ensuing Twitter chatter was about missing our respective personal sites of yesteryear. Happy to see Phil Coffman make a return. Scripty goodness! Pe...

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare. Charles Baudelaire...

When filming Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford was too weak from a case of dysentery and the 130 Tunisian heat to handle the planned 3 page choreographed fight scene. Ford suggested a more expedi...

So I built a new thing… LogoLand is a magical place where you get a professional logo at a great price in a week. In practice, its a $1499 purchase that gets you a custom logo, files, short...

Rebecca Guay is a gallery artist now, but shes primarily known for her work on role-playing and collectible card games. You can see all 156 Magic cards she illustrated here....

Work is not your family. The only way work shows how much they care about you is by how much they pay you. Aminatou Sow...

Karen McGrane is totally not excellently blogging via a shared Google Doc right now. So far we have posts about Tarot cards, Disney Execs, and David Blaine....

I spend my time working with clients on everything from logos to messaging to environments and websites. So when someone says, You do branding work, right? they’re right, right? Well, not e...

I just wanted to make sure that every beat that [Dr. Dre] played for me, I had a rhyme ready to go. Eminem, on their first day of working together You had your whole life to prepare for this mome...

Well, this looks bonkers. (Red Band trailer, so you know, language and such. Maybe headphones it, cubicle pals.)...

[hits roof of every 80s/90s comic Frank touched] these babies can hold so many freaking ninjas. If it involved Frank Miller, Ninjas, or Frank Miller Ninjas, I was there for it. On and off the page, Mi...

Who will live, who will die, and who will become a mindless undead frozen wight? Lindsey Charles has The Ultimate Game of Thrones Season 8 Prediction Sheet for your downloading pleasure and rampant
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I have a 4yo daughter who is firmly in Disney Princess Mode right now, so were used to letting it go on the daily. But its incredible to see it sung in this many languages!...