In the very, very, very very super-first Be A Design Cast Donovan predicted that blog functionality would one day take over for content uploading and site maintenance. That’s a point that stuck with me from then on, as my own, woefully out-of-date site nathanvoss.com neither reflected my current work nor my current design sensibilities, not to mention nobody in the whole world calls me Nathan anymore. Really. I would not design a site like that today. To be honest, I’m so out of the game on web design I didn’t really know what to do when it came time to put a presence up on the web.

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A few weeks ago I wished Armin Vit good luck as he left the lofty confines of a modest design studio to tackle Under Consideration full time, lamenting that I, myself, would love to take such a daring plunge.

Careful what you wish for?

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*When we last left our hero, strange things were afoot in downtown Denver, and the big, fancy-people party was nowhere to be seen…*

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*Over the course of the next few days I will be chronicling my experiences as I travel into TEH FUTUR for the 200X AIGA NEXT Conference. This is not a review, nor will I spill the secrets of the fabulous presenters. This is my NEXTperience.*

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A few weeks ago, Donovan and I had an off-air conversation about careers at Pentagram. Sure, you get work with some of the most amazing people in the industry, in really cool offices, for really cool clients, but how far can you go? You know you’ll never make Partner, because Pentagram partners all come from outside of the company. So in the end, we decided you just kind of languish in the Land of Super-great.

We must not have been too far off, because I opened up SpeakUp today to see that founder Armin Vit gave Pentagram his walkin’ papers as has left to handle Under Consideration full time. He notes it’s a little scary, and I’m sure it is, what with the ad revenues from SpeakUp, BrandNew (best site evar!), Quips, and Design Encyclopedia, plus a few book deals and being on good terms with 95% of the entire design industry, it probably looks like an uphill battle.

Well, from all of us here at BA, who have not quit our jobs to do this full time (yet), we say “good luck” and if anyone in NY has any freelance or overflow work, dude could probably use a hand-out.