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The Value of Managed Technology and Hosting

Managed Technology and Hosting with a Partner Does Not Mean Giving Up Ownership of Your Tech Managed technology and hosting is critical post launch for any website, application, or digital technology. This is possibly the most overlooked post launch service, which is crucial and typically off the radar. Here’s why having BBG not only create, … Continued

2023 Agency State of the Union

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

T. DeFranco Joins the BBG Design Team

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

Welcome to the New BBGX-23 Website

The team at Bright Bright Great is thrilled to unveil our newest and most personal website endeavor: our own. As an agency that focuses heavily on UX, brand and accessibility, Bright Bright Great has a responsibility to put forth a site that embodies the innovation, attention-to-detail, and accessibility that we provide to our clients. Our … Continued

Design Apprentice (UX, Art Direction, Brand & UI)

📌 This apprenticeship is currently on hold. We’d still like to meet you! Find BBG on Instagram and connect! 📌 We recorded a YouTube series for new designers on topics that you should watch! Summary Bright Bright Great is looking for a Design Apprentice who has recently graduated, or is new to the field with … Continued

Jason Schwartz Speaks at Siebel Center for Design UX Weekend

It was truly an honor to head back to my alma-mater University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to speak all things UX at the Siebel Center for Design. What a great feeling to reconnect with students from Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Business and Computer Science and share knowledge about the UX industry. Jason Schwartz, Creative Director University … Continued

BBG Welcomes Art Director Ka Lee to the Team

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

Finding the Right Design Partner

A True Partner Is There From Step One The right agency is your partner before signing on any dotted lines. From the get go, collaboration is key, and this includes helping you accurately and transparently scope your project before contracts are locked. We always warn clients about prices that are too good to be true. … Continued

Nasha Washington Joins Bright Bright Great as Population Manager

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

Welcome to the New Bright Bright Great Website

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

A Discussion on Social Media with Jason Schwartz and Nick Lush Moderated by Margaux Delapierre

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

Clutch Recognizes Bright Bright Great as a Top WordPress Design Agency 2021

In their latest report. Clutch released a list of the highest-ranking B2B companies in the design space. WASHINGTON, DC – March 9, 2021 – Today, market research firm Clutch announced the leading B2B company across design categories. Top Design Agencies 2020 These categories include: Bright Bright Great on Clutch’s List of Top WordPress Designers Bright … Continued

Apprenticeship Recap Victoria Escobar

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 Participating in the Hotel of Tomorrow Project

“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

Thank You Design Nation 2020 of Princeton University

“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

6 Top WordPress Designers Share Their Keys to Success

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

Apprenticeship Recap: Ken Barrios

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

We All Have a Choice, The NRA Shouldn’t Be One

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

10 New Principles for Good Design

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

Fast Company’s Innovation By Design Awards 2017 Winners Announced

Fast Company’s sixth annual Innovation By Design Awards drew more than 2,500 submissions. The 299 honorees, chosen by expert judges in 13 categories, represent the best products, services, interfaces, and ideas of 2017. This is notable because Amy Schwartz, Creative Director at Bright Bright Great was a 2017 judge alongside creative leads from Google, Amazon, … Continued

TopCon 2017 Speakers Include BBG’s Creative Director Amy Schwartz & Managing Director, Founder Jason Schwartz

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

Amy Schwartz Recaps Brand New 2017 Conference

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 Welcomes Jeanne Henry as Director of Projects

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 Is Looking for a Design/Photography Apprentice

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 Looking for a Project Manager

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 Looking For A Designer

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 Welcomes Mackenzie Freemire as Art Director

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

Bright Bright Great Is Looking For A Front-End Development Apprentice (WordPress, Front-End Development & UX)

We’re looking to groom and educate a beginner Front-End Development Apprentice who’s passionate about interfaces, user-friendly interactions AND clean, bug free code. You’ll be working closely with our design team, development team, and clients to solve problems and create effective solutions to meet both user experience and business goals. This is a 6 month paid … Continued

Apprenticeship Recap Maayan Brown

I discovered BBG while still in Portfolio School after an instructor recommended them, and knew that an apprenticeship there would be more valuable than finishing the school year. Their fine work and forward-thinking in the design and digital space drew me in, and after my interview with Jason Schwartz, the Creative Director. I knew working … Continued

Bright Bright Great Welcomes Maayan Brown as Designer

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

WordPress Static Page Cache

WordPress is a dynamic application. When a page is requested, the application loads hundreds or thousands of files into memory, makes dozens or hundreds of database queries, and eventually, crafts a static HTML document, which the visitor’s web browser can then render as a web page. All of this happens every time someone pulls up … Continued

Bright Bright Great Creative Director Jason Schwartz Named One of Newcity’s Design 50 for 2016

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

Apprenticeship Recap – Quan Ika Vu

Quan Ika Vu joined Bright Bright Great for 9 months upon graduating from Columbia College with a degree in Graphic Design. His portfolio stuck out to Bright Bright Great as one of exploration, modernism and we knew he would fit in well with the design team. Thanks again to Quan for his hard work while … Continued

Creative Couples That Get Shit Done: Jason Schwartz & Amy Nicole Schwartz

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

WordPress Object Cache

It is not unusual for WordPress to run dozens or even hundreds (yikes!) of database queries when putting together a page. What’s worse, these queries aren’t the sort from children’s bedtime stories. They’re the dirty ones, full of temporary tables, JOINs on JOINs on JOINs, generic data types, and insufficient indexing. They’re the MySQL equivalent … Continued

How-To: Uncle Goose Create-a-Name

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

Vince DeSantiago Added To Our Chicago Office

Bright Bright Great is excited to announce the addition of Vince DeSantiago as Art Director to our Chicago-office.  Vince will be adding on as Art Director, Photographer and Illustrator in our Chicago office. Vince comes to Bright Bright Great from Walton Isaacson and has previously worked at Delicious Design League & FCB/Chicago. Vince focuses on … Continued

Apprenticeship Recap – Dayan D’Aniello

Our intern, Dayan, recently returned to school after spending the summer with us. Before he left, we asked him to tell us what he learned during his time in our office. My name is Dayan D’Aniello and I spent this past summer as a design intern at Bright Bright Great before going back to the … Continued

BBG Tips: Keep WordPress Tidy

WordPress is kind of magical. It gives site operators the power to quickly and effortlessly extend functionality, tweak design, and preview and post new content. However, this power of immediate evolution – a key feature that has made so many insightful blogs about cats sleeping in weird places possible – can, over time, lead to … Continued

A Handy Guide To Working At Bright Bright Great

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

What Does @3x (iPhone 6) Resolution Really Mean?

By: Jason Schwartz This is just a shot in the dark. Until the new iPhone 6 is announced, there really is no way to know true specs, resolution, or graphic requirements, but I wanted to point out a few of the logistic pieces addressing the rumors. – Over the last few months there has been … Continued

Venture Beat – The 4 Dangers Of Hiring A Web Designer + Response

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

Bright Bright Great Summer Internship Recap – Molly Bramlet

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

Summer Internship Recap – Alex Sheyn

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

BBG Summer Internship- Amy Dosen

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

An Interview with Jason Schwartz Creator of 2 Night Stand for NWI Creative

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

Bright Bright Great for Page Magazine Issue 03

Translation of the Page Magazine Issue 03 John Galliano/Hello Kitty article. (Translation from Spanish to English.) Hello Dior Hello Kitty + John Galliano for Vogue Japan. Ahh summer… time for fall-winter collections! And what’s spectacular about this time is that Dior dares to present theirs in Japanese hi-def. For the first time in Dior’s history, … Continued