Pixelated Blogging
At a time when various blogs are evolving into printed products — Exhibits A, B, and C — it’s oddly reassuring to see what started as a zine back in the late 1980s maintain its web dominance a good ten years after it launched as one of the first juggernaut blogs in 2000. Chronicling all things technology, creative and sometimes just plain bizarre, Boing Boing has been an assured time waster for its thousands of readers for what seems like a blogging eternity. I realize that a blog is kind of off topic amidst the corporations, universities and consumer products we regularly feature on Brand New but in terms of impact, for a broadly niche audience, few entities can outpace Boing Boing. So as a fellow blogger I thought it would be nice to acknowledge identity design within o