Swiss Cheese and Chocolate Sandwich

We’re pleased to announce the full, final, fantastic launch of MySocialChef.com, a brilliant food blog written and photographed by Petrit Husenaj. This custom designed and coded WordPress blog is comprised of recipes that will make your tummy growl and accompanying stories that will make you laugh out loud.

Spanish Roasted Potatoes

We love Petrit’s acerbic wit, clever observations and of course the gorgeous recipes for the dishes he prepares and photographs for his posts. The custom content management system (CMS) we created allows Petrit to easily upload the photos and posts himself – which is great, because we all get pretty excited when there’s a new post!

Single Ladies Mashed Potatoes

While we love all of the recipes that appear on the site, the JPD team has some stand-out favorites. Jessica is a big fan of the Swiss Cheese and Chocolate sandwich recipe, and you’ll know why when you take a look at the post; Kim loves the Single Ladies Mashed Potatoes recipe – oh my goodness, the sight of those buttery mashed potatoes on that red plate; and Krista would totally go off the “healthy eating” wagon to devour the Spanish Roasted Potatoes. Each incredible recipe and image is developed and shot by Petrit. It’s a beautiful and funny food blog.

Please visit MySocialChef.com and be inspired to entertain and cook some of these incredible recipes for yourself!

We’re pleased as punch (pun intended) to announce the launch KidAvila.com, a new WordPress website for the fantastic champion boxer and trainer Jose “Kid” Avila.

This custom designed and coded site features amazing photography of Jose in action, an outline of his services, testimonials, press images and class schedules. Thanks to the custom content management system, Jose and his team can easily and quickly update the site when needed. As part of the project, we also set up and applied the site design to Jose’s Twitter page.

A New York State Golden Gloves champion boxer, Jose is an incredible trainer who works with folks of all ages and levels of fitness. He has a devoted following of clients, who have worked with him to get into great shape.

Check out this fun site (and contact Jose for the best workout of your life) at www.KidAvila.com. Be sure to tell him Team JPD sent you into the ring!

We are oh-so-very pleased to announce the launch of www.InGoodCompany.com, a custom WordPress website that we designed and coded. The site for In Good Company is an incredible resource for women entrepreneurs, making our involvement in this project just that much more special.

In Good Company is a shared workspace for women entrepreneurs located in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. Co-founders Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams created IGC around the idea that shared workspace for women entrepreneurs can help alleviate feelings of isolation and allows members to connect and share resources to further the entrepreneurial efforts of all involved. In Good Company offers classes, resources and networking opportunities, among other things. Adelaide and Amy are even writing a book about successful women entrepreneurs.

The website is rich in content and dynamic. It features nicely laid-out information about IGC, its members, resources and what membership offers. Users can apply for membership, read about various membership packages and peruse the awesome IGC blog. The site is built using WordPress and is easily updated by the In Good Company team.

To see the site and read more about the amazing efforts of In Good Company and its members, please visit www.InGoodCompany.com.

We’re proud to announce the launch of a splash page for Youthfulvigour.com. This splash page is up while we work on a full website for the company’s beauty skincare line, Rebecca’s Paradise.

We created the page to provide as much information about the product as possible, while still letting the photography of the product (also a custom job by us) take center stage. The end result is an eye-catching page that conveys the feel of the Carribean, where the inspiration for the product and its ingredients comes from.

The page also features a link to a pre-order page on PayPal, where customers can reserve their Rebecca’s Paradise products, which will ship in July.

This project also included a custom Facebook page design. Click here for the JPD Blog post about the custom Facebook page design we created for YouthfulVigour.

At JPD, we love our clients. We work with folks from so many different backgrounds; big companies, small companies, start-ups and established businesses. They are artists, writers, nutritionists, fashion designers, lawyers, musicians, educators, bloggers and so much more. We love having such wonderfully diverse clients!

We want to tell the stories of some of our clients and share the work we’ve done for them. That’s why we’re starting a new “Client Profiles” section of the JPD Studio website. Here, you’ll learn a little bit about some of the folks we’ve worked with and why we created what we did for them. We like to think of it as a more “fun” version of a case study. We’ll be updating with new profiles regularly, so please keep checking back for more!

Check out our first client profile for the wonderful musician Devon Sproule here. We hope you enjoy!

Psst… consider this a call to all of our past and current clients; please reach out to Krista at krista@jpdstudio.com if you’d like us to create a client profile for you!

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a custom Facebook page design we created for Youthful Vigour, a fantastic skincare company about to launch the “Rebecca’s Paradise” moisturizer and cleanser line.

In order to create the image used on the Facebook page, we photographed the product and integrated tropical elements to create the sultry, Caribbean feel the product represents. We also wanted to showcase the ingredients, like brown sugar, sugar cane, grapeseed oil and green tea, in a way that lets customers know exactly what elements are contained in the products.

Check out Youthful Vigour’s amazing new product on the Youthful Vigour Facebook fan page, and become a fan. This product will ship July 27, but you can pre-order ahead directly from the Facebook page. Now that’s convenient beauty!

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the just-in-time-for-summer Healthy Competition: A Resource for Parents, a one-page website featuring HD video interviews of players from the Major League Baseball Players Association discussing the importance of leading a healthy, active life.

JPD Studio created this custom microsite for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America as part of their Time to Talk initiative. Through exclusive video interviews with Major Leaguers and dads Torii Hunter (LA Angels of Angels of Anaheim), Jamie Moyer (Philadelphia Phillies), Mike Sweeney (Seattle Mariners), Mark Teixeira (NY Yankees) and Michael Young (Texas Rangers), and strength and conditioning coordinator, Tim Maxey, “Healthy Competition” emphasizes the benefits of exercise and good nutrition and highlights the importance of playing fair and being a positive, pro-active team player.

Our goal was to create a clean, simple and well-organized one-page design with a eye-catching, dynamic and fun elements to grab the attention of parents, kids and baseball fans alike. The site also features a custom Flash player for the fantastic HD videos of the players. We think it’s a home run! Check out the site at www.timetotalk.org/HealthyCompetition.

Photo by Black Creatives

The internet can seem like a bit of a wild frontier when it comes to artists’ rights, intellectual property and ownership of images and copy. That’s why we’re big fans of The Law Office of Kelly Kocinsky. Kelly is a New York City-based lawyer who provides highly-specialized legal services and attentive counsel to artists, small businesses and individuals. She’s a fantastic resource!

Kelly’s practice focuses on transactional matters for individual artists, intellectual property law for artists and small businesses; entity formation and asset identification and protection for small businesses.  We love that she understands that artists have needs that are specialized and offers services to assist those in the arts and ensure that their endeavors are protected. Kelly offers the following services for artists, small business-owners and individuals in a cost-efficient manner:

• General contract drafting and revision

• Collaboration agreements

• Intellectual property identification, assessment, planning and due dilligence

• Website copyright, trademark and domain name evaluation

• Confidentiality, nondisclosure, noncompete and IP-related agreements

• Music licensing

• Rights, clearances and negotiation

• Terms of use and privacy policy development for blogs and websites

• Copyright counseling

• Alternative dispute counseling and negotiation strategy

She’s been an excellent resource for us. Please contact her if you’ve hit a “gray area” or just need legal guidance as you get a project or business off the ground. Tell her the JPD team sent you!

Facebook is not only changing the way we interact with each other, but now helps us find out more about our favorite companies. That’s why we’re excited to announce we recently completed some custom designs for the Ouidad Facebook Fan Page.

Ouidad creates amazing hair products for curly hair; we took design inspiration from their logo and products, which made for a fun, challenging project for us; integrating the custom designs has improved the user experience for the Ouidad fans on the company’s Facebook page.

You can find our custom designs for Ouidad in the “wall links” on the left-hand column on the wall of their Facebook fan page. We also created the custom designs for the boxes under the About and Shop tabs.

Adding a custom design element to a Facebook fan page is a wonderful way to make this powerful social networking site work well for you and your users. Let us know if you’d like more information about creating custom designs for your business’ Facebook fan page!

You can also find a fan page for Jessica Perilla Design on Facebook as well. Check us out and become a fan!

On April 15th, 2010 I participated in an amazing start up fair for women entrepreneurs called “Start Her Up: Getting Your Business Started” hosted by In Good Company Workplaces and Baby Bites.

The evening started with a group of women at various tables offering their time to help other women who needed help starting their business with free mini consultations in their field of expertise. I was at a table offering web consultations on the topics of: Web Design, Logo Design, Wordpress, Twitter, Facebook, Social Media, Blogging and Search Engine Optimization. The room filled quickly, and it turned into a very lively session of Q&A for the women at each table.

The evening continued with a Q&A panelist session led by Adelaide & Amy of In Good Company. The women in this panel were hand picked to represent a robust and diverse group of women entrepreneurs. They shared the challenges they went through when starting their business, how they grew their business and what resources helped them most. It was a very insightful panel that left me feeling empowered with tools to further grow my own business. The panelists included:

Marissa Lippert, Nourish Nutrition Counseling & Communications

Andreea Ayers, Tees for Change

Emily Wolper, E. Wolper Inc.

Lisa Bochner, The Wonder Girls

Jodi Katz, Just Say Jodi

Regina Angeles, Talent2050

Mary Ann Schwanewede, Metro Tots

This is not a fair to be missed, the careful attention to the women presented here and resources offered were a powerful combination of resources for women looking to start their own business.

To be notified about the next fair follow In Good Company, Baby Bites and JPD Studio on twitter.

The JPD Studio team of Jessica, Kim, Krista, Vita and Angel got to be glamorous (and freezing) models for a day when we were fortunate enough to be shot by the fantastic photographer Nadia Natario in Brooklyn, New York.

The shoot took place on an absolutely frigid day in January. We started the shoot on the amazing rooftop of Factory Brooklyn, where Nadia nearly froze her fingers off setting each of us up in front of the killer views and graffiti on the walls of the rooftop. We love the way the colors on the walls and the dramatic skyline shots really pop in the photos. We tried our best to pretend we were comfortable in the freezing wind whipping through on the rooftop, but it was definitely a challenge. Nadia’s poor fingers definitely needed a little time to warm up on the drive to our next location, the Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park served as the perfect spot for the second portion of the photo shoot, with stunning views of the of the Manhattan skyline and Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. This was the perfect backdrop for group shots as well as more individual portraits for our JPD Studio team bios. Even though we aren’t what you’d call professional models, Nadia was a fantastic photographer and made us feel comfortable while she brought out our true personalities in each shot. We ended the shoot and warmed up a bit with lunch at a cafe near the Brooklyn Bridge Park before heading back to the office.

Peruse the shots from the shoot on the Jessica Perilla Design fanpage on Facebook (you don’t need an account to view them). We’d be flattered if you became a fan too. Happy spring from the glamorous JPD Studio team!

We are so pleased to announce the launch of the new website we developed for chef, cookbook author, television personality and all-around lovely person, Sara Moulton.

The site, SaraMoulton.com, has several notable features, including:

• Dynamic homepage touting the latest Recipes, TV Appearances, Book Tour Dates, Videos and more.
• An easy to navigate visual calendar highlighting upcoming appearances, book tour dates and events
• Monthly giveaway book contest, easy & quick sign up
• Convenient search box at the top of every page for quick access to Recipes, Sara’s Picks, Kitchen Shrink Questions, Press and more
• New Blog featuring postings on Favorite Ingredients, On the Road stories, Kitchen Tools, Good Books and more. Stay connected with the blog via the RSS feed or sign up to receive blog postings via email.
• Visitors can easily comment throughout the site on Recipes, Postings and Shrink Q&A to offer their personal stories, thoughts and tips.
• “Share This” buttons throughout site allowing users to easily share Recipes, Postings, Kitchen Shrink Questions and more with friends via email, text message or via Facebook, Twitter,and 20+ other Social Networks.
• Easy to click through photo albums and new photos
• Easy to print Recipes, Kitchen Shrink Questions, Blog Postings and more
• Copy throughout the site is resizable for the visually impaired
• Sign up to Sara’s Official email newsletter in the top right hand corner
• New HD Video media player featuring a playlist of past television appearances and more
• New Resources Section
• New Press Section
• Quick links to Sara’s Facebook Fan page, Twitter, Linked In and blog RSS Feed

The design of the site utilizes warm pastels to play up the beautiful photographs of Sara’s recipes and food.

“I think it’s a reflection of Sara’s personality,” says Jessica Perilla, creative director of JPD Studio. “We were inspired by the food and by Sara. The site looks very cheery, and she’s very positive and inspiring.”

Users can also check out Sara’s cookbooks on the website, including her newest, Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners. The website also contains a schedule of her book tour dates as well as a link to purchase other cookbooks by Sara so fans can be inspired to make all the delicious meals discussed on the website.

Please check out SaraMoulton.com and let us know what you think. Bon appetit!

Woohoo! At JPD Studio, we love a good party, and that’s just what we got last night at the Art Directors Club Young Guns 8 Entries launch event.

The Art Directors Club hosted the party March 24 to announce the launch of the call for entries for the 8th Young Guns competition. The Young Guns Award was created by the ADC in 1996 to identify and honor young creatives under age 30 for their talent, ambition, and potential to impact the future of a multi-disciplinary industry. It’s an amazing competition, and the party to announce the call for entries was great too! The walls of the beautiful ADC space, located at 106 W. 29th St. in New York City, were covered with blank paper for all those present to make their mark. Watching the creativity flow was as fun as meeting some of the great artists present.

Of course, we couldn’t miss the opportunity to make our mark on the party by creating a huge version of the JPD logo on paper with marker. And Jessica, Kim and Vita even pitched in to help out during the event as volunteers! Many thanks to the ADC and their sponsors for putting together such a great event for such a cool competition.

Check out the Young Guns competition (and enter, if you qualify), at ADCYoungGuns.org. The deadline for entries is May 12, 2010. See you at the next party!

We’re happy to announce the launch of SoFamilyOnline.com, a family-centric networking site on Ning, a cool website that allows folks to create their own social networks.

So Family was created by Monica Jones to provide parents with a fun, helpful and active social networking platform. The site will focus on family issues, tips and ideas for family fun. We designed the logo to match the vibrant and family-oriented feel of the site, as well as the So Family Twitter page, which ties in the design we created for the So Family Ning page.

We truly enjoyed being part of this project. Check out SoFamilyOnline.com and join the conversation!

We’re pleased to announce the launch of DanaWhiteNutrition.com!

We designed and developed both the logo and WordPress website for Dana White, a nutrition consultant, registered dietitian and certified athletic trainer. We love the bright, clean design, and the fact that the site is easily updated via a custom content management system (CMS).

Check out the media page, which features video clips of Dana’s television appearances. We also recommend checking out the recipe page; users can click on one of Dana’s (delicious) recipes and easily print!

Bon appetite!