Our studio, located in the Old West End, is very proud to announce the redesign of BoingBoing.net.
BoingBoing is one of the most popular blogs on the net and has been recognized by publications such as Forbes and Business Week. The relaunch went live yesterday and here is more info from Yahoo Finance:
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many congrats! Nice publicity for you!
posted by MaggieThurber on Aug 30, 2007 at 10:30:52 am #
Good stuff, as always!!!
Really swell to have folks like you and Dustin kicking out such strong design from a global HQ in little ole Toledo.
Very cool. I like the design, it still feels like BoingBoing.
'course, I'm more of a metafilter guy myself. :)
posted by TheTalentedMrC on Aug 30, 2007 at 11:01:27 am #
Whoa, this is big. Congratulations. I read about the new Boing Boing design a couple days ago on their Web site, but I didn't click the links mentioned in the posting. From the Aug 28, 2007 Boing Boing post titled Welcome to the new Boing Boing! :
I'm writing this from Boulder, Colorado, which seems like a good place to make this announcement -- it was in this town that Carla Sinclair and I launched bOING bOING as a print zine in 1988. During the past 19 years we've gone through many changes -- from zine to webzine to directory to blog. Today, Boing Boing is changing again, in three exciting new ways: a redesign, the return of user comments, and a blog about personal technology.The new look comes from Jemma Hostetler of Studio Sans Nom. Her redesign is cleaner, easier-to-read, and built to incorporate additional new features that we'll be adding to Boing Boing in the near future.
That Boing Boing posting now has over 400 comments. And it's no surprise that some users are having trouble accepting the new design, but many like the new look.
Via Techmeme on Tuesday, I found others discussing the new design.Aug 28, 2007 posting by Movable Type's Anil Dash that's titled The New Boing Boing: Powered by MT4
Boing Boing is one of the biggest breakout successes in the history of blogging. From its roots as a zine cofounded by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair to its presence today as one of the most popular blogs ever, the site has exceeded all expectations. Guided by Mark, along with David Pescovitz, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing has influenced not just the blogosphere, but culture as a whole, leading the conversation on topics ranging from intellectual property to oddball gadgets to the fringes of art on the web.There are, of course, many more people involved in a launch of this scale — Federated Media’s team played a pivotal role in everything from implementation to the business side of the launch, and you can read a bit about that on FM’s MT-powered blog. Jemma Hostetler created an amazing design that honors Boing Boing’s history while giving it a fresh, new look.
Aug 28, 2007 c|net News story Boing Boing gets a semi-extreme makeover
Boing Boing has made a name for itself by chronicling all things bizarre--common topics include steampunk culture, cryptozoology, Disney (a favorite topic of Doctorow's), Creative Commons, and news of the odd--and there's plenty of room out there for even more weirdness.
Aug 29, 2007 announcement on Business Wire:Visitors to Boing Boing will today also see the first major redesign ever undertaken at the popular site. To rethink the site design, Boing Boing looked to Jemma Hostetler, a designer well-respected in the interactive media worlds for avant garde online experimentation. Hostetler, co-founder of StudioSansNom (www.StudioSansNom.com), focused on updating the typography for improved readability, introducing more intuitive navigation, and rethinking the page format while retaining the clean, white look of classic Boing Boing.
From the Sans Nom about page:Jemma and Dustin have worked with wonderful brands & clients over the years, including: MTV, Atlantic Records, Flaunt Magazine, Burton, WIRED Magazine, BoingBoing.net, Toshiba, ABSOLUT, IKEA, mark., NIKE, russell+hazel, XLR8R Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine UK, Sync Magazine, Nokia, Mini UK, Scion, Motorola, Martini& Rossi, Verizon, Air America, Nokia, Kid Robot, Converse, Kangol, l'Oreal, XLarge and Adidas.
And from their contact page:
Although Sans Nom is based in Toledo, most of our clients are not. We are seasoned in managing projects remotely... attentively.
A little about Boing Boing from its Wikipedia entry :Boing Boing became a website in 1995 and later relaunched as a weblog on January 21, 2000, described as a "directory of wonderful things." Over time, Mark Frauenfelder was joined by three co-editors: Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin. All four Boing Boing contributors are or have been contributing writers for Wired magazine.
Thanks, everyone! It was a fun project.
posted by jhostetler on Aug 30, 2007 at 12:58:04 pm #
I just found this Mar 9, 2008 Guardian story titled The world's 50 most powerful blogs .
2. Boing Boing
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current date: 22-Nov-2008 2:37 A.M.
BoingBoing is one of the most popular blogs on the net...
Never heard of it...
posted by SensorG on Aug 30, 2007 at 07:47:19 am #