Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

Some of you will probably roar with laughter, some of you just won’t get it.

A couple days late, but just a quick note to point you in the direction of a recent interview I did with Nic Haralambous for his Mail & Guardian Techleader blog. In it I discuss my design work, business ventures and what it is that I really do.

If you are bored at work, or have no work to do, grab a coffee and have a read over here.

I recently designed some new business cards with my updated contact details and business ventures on it. I twittered a question asking for a good print service here in the UK and I got a few replies all saying I must try Moo.com.

Moo.com seemlessly retrieves photos from your Flickr account and allows you to use them on your business cards, mini cards, greeting cards, stickers or note cards at the click of a few buttons. You can also upload directly to Moo or retrieve photos from Facebook. It’s that easy.

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At 7.30am this morning I embarrassingly admit I was one of those sad wotsits sitting outside an O2 store eagerly waiting for the doors to open at 8.02am so I could get my hands on some Apple goodness – the iPhone 3G.

Apparently the first bloke in the queue got there at 4.30am!

I tried hiding behind the big geeky Afrikaans dutchman (who clearly didn’t get out much), in front of me when the schoolkids walked past us on their way to school, hurling abuse at the queue. I then overheard the big geeky dutchman tell the guy next to him how he camped the night outside a computer store in Dubai to get his hands on Windows 95 back in the day.

I really was start to feeling like quite a geek. (more…)