About Frauenfelder

Frauenfelder

First Name: Mark

Last Name: Frauenfelder

Homepage: Boing Boing

About:

I am a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine (see makezine.com). I'm the cofounder of Boing Boing (which has won "weblog of the year" for two years running at the SXSW conference) and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998.

For several years, I wrote a monthly technology column for Playboy magazine and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Popular Science, The Hollywood Reporter, and Business 2.0. I currently write the Technology By Design column for Mobile PC magazine.

I am the author of several books, including The Happy Mutant Handbook (1995, Riverhead) a guide to offbeat pop culture, Mad Professor (2003, Chronicle) a book of bizarre science experiments for kids, and World’s Worst (2005, Chronicle) a guide to the worst stuff on earth. I also wrote a history of computers for Carlton books, to be published in October 2005.

My illustrations have appeared in Wired, The Industry Standard, Children’s Television Workshop, Turner Cable, and Time Warner.

I have a degree in mechanical engineering and worked in the drive industry in the 1980s.