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Do Good + Look Good

Do Good + Look Good

It feels good to LOOK good. It feels even better to DO something good! That much is true. As the VIRB community continues to grow, we find that we are increasingly blessed with a plethora of very creative individuals. While in another corner, there is a growing number of charities and organizations making VIRB their new home. So... We had an idea.

In a new campaign, Do Good + Look Good, we will be pairing charities with designers to create something truly beautiful. Each month, we will choose a charity or organization and post it on the (upcoming) DG+LG page. That's when you, Mister and Misses Creative, will have the chance to put yourself in the running for that month's design. The organization will have the opportunity to choose their designer - and then we pair you two up. It's like matchmaking for a very good cause. The charity walks away with a incredible new VIRB profile and you walk away knowing you did something really good. Oh -- and there's the fact that you both will be featured on the homepage. Yeah, there's that too...

For those of you that are ready to get involved, the time is near. To blatantly let the cat out of the bag, Ryan and I are launching a new VIRB homepage sometime in the next few days. This redesign will (1.) create a spot for the new campaign and (2.) make the homepage downright sexier... At that point, I'll be sure to let you know what the next step is.

So... Do Good + Look Good and a dapper new homepage design is on the horizon.
Dang. You. Look. Gooood. Tonite! :)

UPDATE: Do Good + Look Good is now LIVE. Calling all designers! Sign up today.

posted by Brad under Buzz and Press, New Features, Profile Customization

17 MAY 2007

47 Comments

47 Comments

This will never work…. where do I sign?

posted by Hal on May 17, 2007 at 9:14pm

solid! looking forward to it.

posted by jen on May 17, 2007 at 9:37pm

I'm ready to sign up. I've been wanting to do something like this for some time.

posted by Travis Morgan on May 17, 2007 at 10:11pm

I'm so ready to sign up!

posted by Matt McInerney on May 17, 2007 at 11:34pm

I am ready for the next step in the Virb evolution. Count me in.

posted by Frederick Polk on May 17, 2007 at 11:47pm

This sounds like a great idea, could be very interesting.

posted by Rob Green on May 18, 2007 at 0:00am

im totally down for this. as Hal put it so well….

"where do i sign up?

posted by Brian Spessard on May 18, 2007 at 0:48am

Count the pirates in!

Design, film, you name it – they'll get it.

posted by Kevin Maistros on May 18, 2007 at 5:38am

dibs

posted by Ryan!Sworth!!! on May 18, 2007 at 9:26am

Please sign me up!!

posted by Paulo on May 18, 2007 at 9:45am

I would love to help! Sign me up

posted by Jess Brown on May 18, 2007 at 9:55am

great idea!

posted by Davud on May 18, 2007 at 9:56am

This is an awesome idea, especially considering the amount of awesome designers that Virb is housing. It will definitely be great to see what we'll all be able to come up with and whatnot :P

posted by Jordan on May 18, 2007 at 11:10am

Great idea!

posted by Adam on May 18, 2007 at 11:14am

brilliant!

posted by Emily Anne on May 18, 2007 at 11:51am

This is such a good idea

posted by Jason on May 18, 2007 at 11:56am

If anyone wants to help us out with some design, I have been looking for people. Let me know.

posted by Action For Everyone on May 18, 2007 at 0:45am

love this idea. i met the POPE ST. VICTOR on VIRB and he helped me out immensely with the junky car club. www.virb.com/junkycarclub peace…mike.

posted by mike on May 18, 2007 at 6:35pm

nice. sorta like an open-source version of the glue network.

posted by mr.otis on May 18, 2007 at 7:31pm

Lovely idea! Can't wait to see the results of this. : )

posted by Rachelskirts on May 19, 2007 at 1:45am

This sucks….

So where's the signup form? :D

You guys are kicking some serious ass here with all the cool new stuff that shows up on Virb every month. Keep it up!

posted by Marco on May 19, 2007 at 7:45am

great idea. i wanna' play too!

posted by Keith eats crayons on May 19, 2007 at 2:44pm

I was thinking about making a VIRB page for my Oragization / ministry just hadn't done it yet. If i had some cool / talented peoples to help me dial it in it would be done! I don't really like signing-up but i will e-mail in for sure!!!

posted by Erik on May 19, 2007 at 9:14pm

i've designed virb pages for two charities… ethur and the junky car club

posted by pope saint victor on May 20, 2007 at 9:32pm

Count us in!!!

posted by Mark on May 21, 2007 at 1:07am

yes, please…. where do i sign up?

posted by veronica on May 21, 2007 at 6:50pm

Sounds fab to me =D xxx

posted by Amywamy on May 22, 2007 at 2:29pm

'It feels good to LOOK good. It feels even better to DO something good! That much is true. As the VIRB community continues to grows'

grow**

posted by iRyan on May 22, 2007 at 3:23pm

sounds great! sign me up :)

posted by Theresa Furey aka dznrgnsgrl on May 22, 2007 at 5:17pm

That's cool. Good idea. Perhaps there are some designers from our platform who want to take part in this project.

We have got a charity project, too.

http://www.shirtaroundtheworld.com/blog/

Different kind of idea but still cool i think. Featuring Lounge 72, Taobot, The Ronin, Dstrukt and Kyle Cooper.

Cheers, Andre

posted by Andre on May 23, 2007 at 5:02am

Count me in, where to do sign up?

posted by Digiguru on May 23, 2007 at 5:17am

WAIT FOR THEM TO FINISH THE PAGE FIRST GUYS! :)

(sorry for the caps… it's just so people see and stop asking how to sign up)

posted by iRyan on May 23, 2007 at 0:56am

Sweet concept :)

posted by Michael McClure on May 23, 2007 at 2:33pm

Hmm, to bad there is no option to pair a designer and programmer with a business rather than just a designer.

My lack of CSS skills would take me out of this fun little adventure.

posted by Jarad on May 23, 2007 at 7:40pm

I would like to help.

posted by Chris on May 24, 2007 at 3:43am

Maybe some help from the other side of the ocean wanted?

posted by Johannes Wedenigg on May 24, 2007 at 9:48am

Sounds like a great idea. Count me in!

posted by Skyler Vander Molen on May 24, 2007 at 2:34pm

Sweet! I'm in!

posted by Brad on May 24, 2007 at 5:51pm

I'm in.

posted by Jason Campbell on May 24, 2007 at 7:05pm

Super excited, I love VIRB but we dont have the time or skill in hours to make our profile what i know it could be.

We are an aids service organization that runs a number of online services that we'd love to see intergrated into our blog including our online auctions (housingworksauctions.com) with photos powered by flickr and our upcoming "I saw this a thrift store" blog, not to mention our youtube video with sarah jessica parker!!

Soo excited to see what the community can come up with.

posted by Keith Mancuso on May 24, 2007 at 10:00pm

This is exactly the direction I want to take with my freelance moonlighting, and I could not imagine a better way to start. I <3 Virb. Keep it up.

posted by John Ellis on May 24, 2007 at 10:51pm

I'd love to help out. New front page looks great.

posted by james on May 25, 2007 at 10:25am

Sweet. I cant wait to get this going!! :-)

posted by Cristina on May 25, 2007 at 1:14pm

love it. cant wait.

posted by Love is an Action on May 26, 2007 at 0:19am

Been looking forward to this from the moment I read it.

posted by Nomoore on May 28, 2007 at 11:27pm

This is awesome. I will defineately sign up to design one up.

posted by philldo on June 19, 2007 at 1:03am

need a designer for our org! message us

edurelief

posted by jonathan renich on September 10, 2007 at 3:56am

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