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May 25, 2010

daily bizcard 026: mark frauenfelder

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Today’s “Daily Biz­card” design, “200 mph”, goes to another fellow author from my publisher’s sta­ble, Mark Frauen­fel­der.

Mark’s got a new book out, “Made by Hand: Searching for Mea­ning in a Thro­wa­way World”, which I’m half­way through rea­ding (The publisher kindly sent me an advance copy etc). As edi­tor in chief of Make maga­zine, Mark’s in a good posi­tion to write about the spi­ri­tual and social merits of DIY culture…

But if that wasn’t enough to place him high up on the geek pantheon, BOM BOM BOM Mark is also the co-founder and co-editor of pretty much the coo­lest blog on the pla­net, Boing Boing.

I only have ele­ven blogs book­mar­ked on my brow­ser in the “Favo­rite Blogs” sec­tion. Boing Boing is one of them. I’m get­ting picky in my old age.

While desig­ning this biz­card, I was thin­king about what it was about Boing Boing that always appea­led to me since Day One… It wasn’t just all the cool, geeky stuff they were lin­king to, it was something about the way they did it. Like it was the ideas and human dri­ves behind the cool stuff that mat­te­red, not the actual cool stuff itself.

This high-speed, vora­cious appe­tite and enthu­siasm for new ideas… that’s what makes the inter­net, at its best, so much damn fun. And nobody does it bet­ter than Boing Boing. “Dri­ving 200 mph on the high­way of ideas” pretty much sum­med up their ethos to me.

[The Daily Biz­card archive is here etc.]

[Com­mis­sion Hugh]

[Mark, please send me an e-mail at gapingvoid@gmail.com with your ship­ping address and the details you want on the back of the biz­card, and I’ll send a free box of 100 to you. And if your Boing Boing co-editors, Cory and Xeni do like­wise, I’ll extend the same offer to them as well. Thanks!]

Tags: Boing Boing, Cartoon Business Cards, Commission your Cartoon, Daily Bizcard, Make Magazine, Mark Frauenfelder

4 Responses to “daily bizcard 026: mark frauenfelder”

1. Noah Fleming says:

   May 25, 2010 at 1:06 PM

   Great card! I’d love to see what other blogs made your top 11.

   Thanks for doing the daily biz cards.

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   May 26, 2010 at 1:59 PM

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3. mike brown says:

   May 28, 2010 at 7:00 AM

   Sooooo… Don’t tease us… What are the other 10 favs???

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4. Creativity and creation… says:

   May 29, 2010 at 5:09 AM

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