BBG Halloween tee pre-order. If we get 10 people to commit to buy, it’s happening. Alex Sheyn, Art Director at BBG illustrated and designed this original piece for a limited run of Halloween 2013 t-shirts, silkscreened onto Gildan 5000 ash gray tees available to you just in time for the Halloween season and year round … Continued
This is written by Jason Schwartz, Founder and Creative Director at Bright Bright Great. This reflects my perspective as a small business owner. Everyone will have a different take on 2023. This year was tough, really tough This year was hard. It was hard to run a business. It was hard to work at a … Continued
YouTube video Design Summer Sessions: Episode 2: Drive Episode 2: Drive In the second episode of Design Summer Sessions, Jason, Amy and Juan discuss Drive. What is Design Summer Sessions? Design Summer Series is an educational video series that explores high-level design concepts, encompassing topics from drive and time, to slightly more broad topics like … Continued
What’s the difference between UI and UX? At the most basic level, UI is made up of all the elements that enable someone to interact with a product or service. UX, on the other hand, is what the individual interacting with that product or service takes away from the entire experience. (via UserTesting) “UX is … Continued
Welcome to the team Mr. T… plus E.T. … plus Little Jerry (new favorite dog). Excited to have your skills and experience on the design team. Jason Schwartz, Creative Director Welcome to the team T. DeFranco! What is your favorite part of design? My favorite part of being a designer is that there are no … Continued
Bright Bright Great had the opportunity to collaborate with the fantastic in-house product, marketing, and science teams at Therabody, as well as incredible partners from Tech Holding and Artefact US on the Therabody app design & UX project ushering in a major update to the Therabody iOS and Android apps used daily by over a … Continued
From Bright Bright Great We’re excited to be recognized by Expertise.com for our work in social marketing. To view Chicago’s Best Social Media Marketing Agencies 2022 (including our awesome peers), you can view the recognition here. About Expertise.com Why these Social Media Marketing Agencies? Our goal is to connect people with the best local experts. … Continued
BBG is honored and excited to bring the talent of Ka to our team and to jump in with our client work. I’ve followed Ka’s work for years and it’s amazing to have the opportunity to collaborate. Can’t wait to see what we can come up with. Jason Schwartz, Creative Director, Partner Why did you … Continued
Here’s what Ad World had to say Creating amazing experiences that keep people coming back since 2007. Bright Bright Great is a strategic interactive agency located in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, with a focus on engaging creative connections based on goals. With a focus on the three main tiers of service, research, creative and … Continued
Hey everyone, Dan here, BBG Business Development Lead and Strategy Consultant. 2021 was certainly a year for the books, and I have spent the past month really looking at some trends BBG saw develop this past year and, most importantly, how that will translate to 2022 e-commerce trends. Dan Schwartz, Director of Business Development E-Commerce … Continued
Nasha joins Bright Bright Great as Population Manager and will be assisting with Business Development. Nasha joins BBG with over a decade of education and management experience. We’re excited to have her on board and expect great things! Why did you join Bright Bright Great? After nearly a decade in education, I joined BBG to … Continued
Bright Bright Great is Part of the 2021 Clutch Global 1000 Standing out from the rest of the field is always an easier said than done situation. There’s always a lot of variables, nuances, and complexities that need to be accounted for, and only people who really know what they’re doing can achieve it. Fortunately, … Continued
Bright Bright Great Partners with Top Design Firms for Its Long-Awaited Launch For Immediate ReleaseJune 9, 2021 True to our name, Bright Bright Great always strives to be bright and great for all of our clients and partners. We are proud to announce that we are adding to that winning tradition, because the team at … Continued
Welcome to the new BBG website! After many many many overdue years with our previous site, we knew it was time to bring some priority functionality to the site as well as share our current story. What’s New? Work Case Studies Work Case Studies have been added. With a busy 10+ years, we stopped making … Continued
Can you describe your job and why did you pick this field? Jason Schwartz: Creative Director & Founder, Bright Bright Great. Side hustle: Creative Director & Founder Avondale Type Co. & Mlmtr. On Twitter and Instagram @jaycrimes. Nick Lush: Marketing & Strategy Director, Bright Bright Great. I didn’t really consciously pick this field so much … Continued
In 2019, BBG was approached by Nostos Network, with an amazing concept. Stay independent, but join a small heavily vetted group of amazing agencies to collaborate and share resources with. A community that is not a referral network, but shares knowledge, support and educational resources so that all partners continue to grow as individuals, but … Continued
BBG was thrilled to have Design and Branding Apprentice Vicky Escobar join us for our 1st ever Virtual (Covid-Safe) Apprenticeship working from Florida, with our team in Chicago. Vicky went above and beyond each and every task set before her. Not only would she tackle the task, she would tackle far beyond the task. We … Continued
“Bright Bright Great could not be more proud to be working with The Gettys Group and amazing global innovators from Disney to Hilton, working to reimagine hospitality’s challenges during COVID-19. This is a great opportunity for the BBG design and innovation team members to jump in and ideate with industry leaders. BBG is also acting … Continued
“I’m glad we are over time. At the 7 minute mark, I wondered how this was going to be sustainable for 40 minutes.” – Jason Schwartz A big thank you to Princeton University’s Design Nation Conference 2020 for having BBG’s Creative Director, Partner Jason Schwartz as he presented “Design is Super Easy” workshop session. Additionally, … Continued
Running a successful WordPress agency is no easy task. The landscape changes quickly and what worked yesterday may not be the best practice today. As you will see, some things change, but many things will always stay the same. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing six of the most successful WordPress agencies in North … Continued
A Life, Redesigned: How Married Designers Balance Life, Work and a Rebrand From the American Marketing Association Amy Schwartz sits on a couch next to Lucas Nelson, a young designer on her team at Bright Bright Great, a design and branding firm in Chicago. A cold, bright November day shines through BBG’s frosted windows as … Continued
Bright Bright Great is excited to share the launch of Wild Bum, the next big adventure for travelers seeking exclusive curated experiences. Wild Bum is a modern, online global marketplace that evokes a sense of adventure and well-being! Their mission is to shift the mindset around travel. Travel is not a luxury, rather it is … Continued
Expertise.com, looked at 682 Digital Marketing Agencies serving Chicago and picked the Top 20. Our goal is to connect people with the best local experts. We scored digital marketing agencies on more than 25 variables across five categories, and analysed the results to give you a hand-picked list of the best digital marketing agencies in … Continued
What is the most important thing you learned during your apprenticeship? The most important skill I learned at BBG was definitely client interactions. Knowing how to present and explain design work to clients was a huge learning curve and was something that I really appreciated about my apprenticeship. I had to jump straight into into … Continued
What is the most important thing you learned during your apprenticeship. On the technical side: I feel like the most important things I learned were both how to work on WordPress sites, particularly with the aid of Vue.js, Carbon Fields, and an “atomic” approach to CSS. On the cultural side: the crew opened my eyes … Continued
Clutch, a leading B2B ratings and reviews site, has released a report highlighting the top-ranked creative and design agency and developer in Chicago. Clutch provides independent, quantitative, and qualitative analysis on leading services firms which makes this recognition even more honorable. We’re excited to be considered amongst the best web design agencies in Chicago and … Continued
This has been a great PR week for large companies who have been called out on social media to ditch discounts for NRA members, turning a petition into something good. It’s important to remember that all companies large and small and employees within companies have opportunities to do business with companies who do good, help … Continued
The 10 New Principles for Good Design nod to Braun legend Dieter Rams–whose 10 Principles of Good Design remain indispensable (though somewhat narrowly concerned with the particulars of industrial design). Originally posted on FastCo Design by Suzanne LaBarre. Additional commentary from Bright Bright Great Creative Director Jason Schwartz. Good Design is Transparent User-friendly design has … Continued
TopCon is is an annual, one-day conference celebrating all things creative. Every year hundreds of incredible minds come together to share stories and ideas, failures and successes, and a whole lotta love. Hear and learn from some of today’s emerging, influential, and downright nicest people in the creative industry. Bright Bright Great Creative Director Amy … Continued
Include your audience and remember less is more Amy Schwartz The Brand New Conference is an annual design conference that is organized by UnderConsideration, the group responsible for the popular design blog, Brand New, that critiques brand identity work. The two-day conference focuses on the forms that brand identity takes on with eight speaker-sessions per-day. … Continued
Bright Bright Great would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Director of Projects, Jeanne Henry. Jeanne will be assisting BBG with all BBG accounts and sales. What is your name and official title at BBG? Jeanne Henry, Director of Projects. Hello, Hello. I am excited to be here. What got you interested … Continued
Bright Bright Great would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Design Apprentice Timberlene Gilliam. Timberlene will be assisting BBG with Design and branding as well as with BBG’s Avondale Type Co. type and Mlmtr photography teams. What is your official title at BBG? Timberlene Gilliam, Design Apprentice What got you interested in … Continued
Bright Bright Great would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Designer, Kara Shim to the team. Kara will be assisting BBG on our Design team as well as our Avondale Type Co. type and Mlmtr photography teams. Name & Role Kara Shim, Design Apprentice What got you interested in (your role)? I … Continued
Bright Bright Great would like to extend a warm welcome our new Front-End Developer, Ken Barrios, to the team. Ken will be assisting BBG on our Technology team. What is your official title at BBG? Ken Barrios, Front-End Developer What got you interested in development? Three years ago, I came across an online ad for … Continued
Applications Due By: 8/1 Apprentice to Start: 8/1, or ASAP Bright Bright Great is looking to give a young designer (with incredible love of design and photography, pushing creative boundaries and the beginnings of a stellar portfolio) their first shot at working with an amazing team of designers, developers and artists. This is a unique … Continued
BBG is hiring a Project Manager to join our team. We love what we do, period. We’re looking for new people with the same passion to join our team and make amazing things. Posted July 6, 2017 We’re a small Chicago-based team of designers, developers, and strategists. We work with a wide range of clients … Continued
Bright Bright Great is hiring a designer to join our team in Chicago. We love what we do, period. We’re looking for a designer with the same passion to join our team and make amazing things. We’re a small Chicago-based team of designers, developers, and strategists. We work with a wide range of clients from … Continued
Bright Bright Great is delighted to welcome our new Art Director/Designer, Mackenzie Freemire, to the team. Mack will be assisting with Art Direction. What is your official title at BBG? Mackenzie Freemire, Art Director What got you interested in design? I went into college thinking I wanted to be a photojournalist. When I went in … Continued
12 months to the day, we jokingly shot this tweet out. “I don’t see you doing a worse job for us than other people have done. I have low expectations.” Client Testimonial This was something that was jokingly said to us during a project kickoff, but what has happened in the 12 months since this … Continued
Bright Bright Great is delighted to welcome our new Designer, Maayan Brown, to the team. Maayan will be assisting our Art Directors and learning alongside our full team. As part of her first day, we sat down to ask some questions about what brought her to the BBG team and what drives her. Read her … Continued
Bright Bright Great is proud to announce the new and improved Avondale Type Co. website! We completely overhauled the site, starting with an updated brand identity, adding in new features and functionality to make shopping for typefaces easier than ever before. Among the new features are: TYPE TESTER We’ve added the second-most requested feature, the … Continued
In our strategy and marketing work, it is not uncommon for us to have in-depth conversations with our clients on the subject of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In the heyday of the tech boom, SEO was everywhere, as companies took their competition online and fought to go to the top of search rankings by whatever … Continued
Bright Bright Great is excited to announce that our founder and Creative Director Jason Schwartz has been selected as one of Newcity’s Design 50 for 2016. We’re thrilled to have Jason mentioned among so many other brilliant people who are helping to continually redefine and grow Chicago’s design community, like Theaster Gates and Jeanne Gang, … Continued
Starting with a Single Person HighTower Advisors set out to return the field of financial advising to its roots: being true fiduciaries to their clients. Building a network starts with a single person. Then a single partnership. After awhile, people start seeking you out to join. In order to get their message out, and find … Continued
Love in Work? It’s Possible. BY LAUREN FESTA (Originally posted on ADC Global’s site. Read the full article on ADC Globals site here.) They say don’t mix business with pleasure, but for these creative couples, that’s just the perfect working formula between themselves and their clients in producing some of the best work in the … Continued
Why did I land on Bright Bright Great’s website? TSH is going on a small hiatus as we rebrand, retool, and restrategize for 2016. The first leg of our journey has been amazing with 30+ total events and 3 major conferences in San Francisco, Chicago and New York City and sharing countless pieces of valuable … Continued
An exciting part of last year’s Uncle Goose redesign was the “Create-a-Name” block generator. This had been the most user-requested feature, so it was important for us to make it happen. Uncle Goose wanted a simple, intuitive way for customers to order individual blocks from one of three sets, and have each block’s color be … Continued
Bright Bright Great is an amazing place to work, period. We are always learning and pushing each other to grow personally and as a collective team. Think you’d make a good addition? Use this post as a guide to help you understand what it takes to be a part and if you are a fit. … Continued
Bright Bright Great is excited to open our new studio for the first time and we’d love for you to come celebrate with us and view some new art being done for our office. Blast One is a Mexican street artist based in Monterey, Mexico and friend of our creative director, Jason Schwartz. We’re thrilled … Continued
Why did you choose to go into the graphic design career? I knew that I wanted to work in the arts from about the time I was 16 or 17, mid-high school. I always was creative and pretty decent with manual art skills so I wanted to roll that into a career to use creative … Continued
12 Christmas Presents for $12 Sounds Like a Whole Lot of B.S., and It Is – Cards Against Humanity’s holiday stunt By Rebecca Cullers. You’re not going to believe this bullshit. Cards Against Humanity created this holiday promotion called Holiday Bullshit, where they promised to send anyone 12 random gifts for $12. And they sold … Continued
The Secret Handshake and Form + Future team up to create a conference in 2014. And we’re looking to you to help us name it.The creators of The Secret Handshake + Form and Future are teaming up to bring design students and designers a conference packed with incredible speakers and workshops about professional development. The … Continued
Venture Beat posted an extremely offensive article today talking about the dangers of hiring a web designer. Yes, this was sponsored, but it’s pretty shallow and minimally thought out. Full article here… you should read it – http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/11/the-4-dangers-of-hiring-a-web-designer/ Here’s our response from our Creative Director, Jason Schwartz. This is borderline offensive and honestly, pretty shitty … Continued
After being live for only 7 weeks, our The Secret Handshake project has topped 200,000 hits. As a passion project for myself and having been involved with this project for almost 4 years without any web presence, that is truly an amazing feat. We are in the works of a Secret Handshake Conference 2014 that … Continued
We had an excellent time and there is something very invigorating about saying “The computer is dead” to a bunch of people in the Apple Store. Thanks to everyone again for coming out.
By Jason Schwartz This is an opinion piece. I’ve been talking about tech’s “5 year plan” at design lecture events 2 years. Let’s talk about tech’s 5-year plan and the future segmentation of brands over time and how everyone else will just be bought-out, merged in, or overrun natively. Jason Schwartz Every year end, I … Continued
One of the most valuable things I learned while interning at BBG is how to make design usable and functional. In design school we all learn how to make things pretty, but there’s a big disconnect between what you learn in school and how you use that in the real world. At BBG, we approached … Continued
The following are words to describe my internship at Bright Bright Great: Amazing. Magnificent. Awesome. Badass. Stunning. Sexy. Jammin. Exemplary. Fantastic. Great. Bright. Distinguished. Airy. Oaky. Tremendous. Aces. Tops. Bees Knees. What I’m trying to say is that my internship at BBG was one of the greatest things to have ever happened to me. I … Continued
My summer internship at Bright Bright Great began with a Tuesday night Taco party at Logan Square Design Bldg and ended with a company trip to Chicago Comic Con, so it was pretty much the best summer of my life. Beyond mass taco consumption and purchasing vinyl toys with my BBG buds, my internship entailed … Continued
Lots of people from Chicago’s design and tech community came to enjoy the ice cream social with the BBG team. Take a peek at some of the awesome toppings people brought and the mountainous sundaes that people made. Also, the official unveiling of the #FREEBIGSEXY tee. Success! Photos from the Event
Presenting the OFFICIAL Summer 2012 BBG Summer Interns! In total, we received over 30 applicants for the 2 spots and had some really great people to choose from. We are excited to announce that we are taking on 3 Summer interns, all who are graduating from DePaul’s design program next week. Non-traditional, we know. Say … Continued
2 Night Stand Interview with Jason Schwartz of Bright Bright Great by Joe Gonzalez of Miracle 21 (for NWI Creative) How did 2 Night Stand get started? 2 Night Stand (@2nightstand) sprung from attending all the other creative get-togethers in Chicago, seeing my same creatives at every event and always walking away with everyone always … Continued
Businessweek published an excellent article discussing the impact of design on business. Their 6 article series focuses on the following: Design: Impact on BusinessThe Value of DesignWhy Design MattersThe Value of Design to StartupsHow To Redesign Health CareThe Role of Design in BusinessSlideshow: The Worlds Most Influential Designers. These articles are extremely important for people … Continued