Have we mentioned how much we love Collins Design?

Collins Design is the editorial behind The Virtual Miscellaneum, a brill book BBG had the pleasure to review, love and obsess about last November.

This time Collins Design made our January by sending us a copy of Design for the Greater Good by Peleg Top and Jonathan Cleveland. A book showcasing the best, brightest, and most successful design campaigns in the nonprofit industry.

The message behind Designing for the Greater Good is that nonprofit campaigns shouldn’t merely share a message, but that they should serve as inspiration to encourage action.

The book includes 24 case studies, interviews with designers, cause-specific campaigns, logos and branding for nonprofits and tons of websites, posters, brochures, advertising, and marketing materials for different events and nonprofits. By the time you finish it, you should at least feel a little enlightened.

Go get this book before you’ve been left behind. On awesomeness!

Images by Jocelyn Ibarra for Bright Bright Great.

Get the book here!

Learn more about the book and its authors here:

http://www.designingforthegreatergood.com/

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Thanks to all the ASU Visual Communications students who came out to our presentation. As we mentioned, stay in touch with us on Bright Bright Great’s Facebook, Jason Schwartz’s Twitter, & Bright Bright Great’s Twitter.

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Bright Bright Great Lecture Series Presents:

“Grindin’ – How To Transition From A Design Student Into A Creative Professional
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 / 5:15pm Chicago, IL

In what appears to be just the start (of the 3 person presentation this is slated to become Spring 2010, …more info on that later) Jason Schwartz presents to Arizona State University’s Junior and Senior Visual Communication students real world advice on finding a creative job in a tough market, finding the “right” job and most importantly, tips and tricks on smoothing out the transition from student to working creative professional.

Photos and recap after the event.

(This is a closed event only for ASU Visual Communication Students.)

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The Knux nods to Jason Schwartz!

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The Knux dropped their new EP titled The Fuck You EP via Facebook Jan 1 without any cover art, so I got this together for you. to download.

You can still grab the EP at http://www.mediafire.com/?y32jjj5uoxy

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For the next few weeks, Bright Bright Great will be traveling the span of North America to work on some amazing new projects, drop a few international websites and to party like rockstars.

We are still available via email and via Tweet Jason Schwartz, Jocelyn Ibarra, and at Bright Bright Great.

We hope everyone has an amazing year end and we look forward to seeing you in 2010!

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Today Coca-Cola showed Pepsi how to redesign packaging for a beverage line without major backlash from the design/consumer/every community.

If you remember, earlier in the year Pepsi rebranded and then debranded Tropicana, due to some serious backlash from the modern and minimalistic design, which was a bit much for the seasoned OJ drinker.

Take a peek, this is a pretty nice packaging update.
Via The Dieline.

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Tweet now! Contest ends Thursday, November 19!

Rules:
To win all you need to do is tweet and include #bbgcontest, or RT our messages!
Keep your eye on posts from (@jaycrimes & @bbgchicago) for potential RTs!

People can enter.
Companies can enter.
Cats can enter.
It’s wide open!

WINNER ANNOUNCED THURSDAY! Be sure to tweet with #bbgcontest before then.

Remember, you need to keep your eye out for Jason Schwartz’s (me), or Bright Bright Great’s Twitter accounts.

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Bright Bright Great has never openly recommended a book on our website before, but now is DEFINITELY the time to finally do so. The Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless is a definite MUST HAVE for anyone who is a super dork about information graphics.

This baby is loaded with tons of graphs, charts, flow charts, crazy-ass charts, and random data presented in potentially the most aesthetic AND UNDERSTANDABLE way we’ve ever seen. Bright Bright Great has been excited about this book ever since we first saw it on Information is Beautiful, David’s website.

The book drops in stores in the US today, but Bright Bright Great has actually had our hands on this gem for about a week. We want to throw a super shout-out to the folks over at Collins Design (Harper Collins) for shooting us over an advance copy of this book.

We definitely suggest you head over to Information is Beautiful to see what the fuss is about, but just to wet your taste buds a bit, heres a few sample graphs and charts from the book.

Images via Information Is Beautiful.

David… if you stumble across our blog, please contact Bright Bright Great. We would LOVE to do an interview with you.

Pre-order the book here…

http://bit.ly/2og6LR

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If you found the Editors – Live At Fabric 2009 09-10 bootleg floating around, you probably noticed it didn’t have any album art. New art compliments of Jason Schwartz.

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