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    Going Out with a BAng!

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    Well, as a few of you might have noticed, I have been really absent from BADG over the last year. I made a job and location move and the motivation to blog seemed to have been left behind. I’m not sure if I just needed a break, I no longer need the creative outlet, I was too busy with home renovation, my desire to be a famous designer has faded or my temporary home studio isn’t conducive to long hours of blogging, but I’ve only posted a few times in the last 12 months. Somewhere in that long list is the answer, and one of these days I will figure it out. With Adrian retiring as an author, my practical retirement, several others dropping out of author circulation and then Donovan and Nate striking out on their own, it is time to put Be A Design Group into retirement. It has been an amazing four years! We will definitely keep the site up as an archive and Adrian and I plan to develop it into something new and fresh in the future, but for now BADG wants to take a nap from its stint of discussions, reviews, rants and critiques of the last few years.

    While we are sad to say goodbye, we also thought it would be fun to bring BADG back to its heyday for the next couple weeks. We’ve invited a gaggle of our past authors to write original essays that we will post over the next couple of weeks. We will start posting on Monday and make a new post live every other day. Look for new insight from Drew, Paul, Kyle, Clint, Adrian and I.

    You can keep up with many of us from the past by following these links.


    Adrian has a couple other blogs he has created.
    I have my portfolio site and letterpress work to look for. I even have a gig poster page.
    Of course Nate and Donovan will be moving skyward with 36point.com
    Drew Davies is still owning Oxide Design.
    Travis Gray would rather not be found at travisgray.com
    Clint Carlson actually works at the same agency as Adrian does.
    David Kadavy can be found on kadavy.net.
    As always you can see Jeremy Pruitt’s work at ThinkMule.com.
    Kyle Heineman is keeping busy with his family and his job at esri.
    Paul Berkbigler is warping young minds at Concordia University.

    This entry was posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 9:58 am and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    2 Responses to “Going Out with a BAng!”

    1. Bill Kerr Says:
      March 21st, 2008 at 10:13 am

      Farewell, BADG. How I shall miss you so.

      I can’t say that I am surprised, as posts to the site have been coming at a sputtering pace as of late.

      Thanks for all of the hard work over the past few years guys. Thanks for starting great conversations about design and thinking in general. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this place a welcome break to a busy work day. Thanks for staying true to yourselves and being open-minded to others.

      Thanks, most of all, for being BA.

      Sincerely,
      BK

    2. Chris Hatfield Says:
      March 21st, 2008 at 11:34 am

      No more BADG?

      It’s to early to die. Can someone else take over the reins? Is there not another group of intelligent designers who can take over the duties of BADG.

      Imagine BADG similar to a good comic book. You have an “A” list team working on a book, when that teams run is up another “A” list team takes over.

      I imagine this place as a power and foot hole in the design community.