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:
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.
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!
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Web2Fem has been asked to be a featured partner for 2010: NYC Entrepreneurs Networking at 230 Fifth on Jan. 6, which promises to be a really cool event with great networking opportunities.
This business-oriented event (bring at least 25 business cards) runs from 6 – 9:30 pm and will be held at 230 Fifth, NYC’s most popular heated rooftop. There are already 300+ RSVPs now from the NY Entrepreneurs Business Network and we think Web2Fem members be able to gain a lot from the event as well. There will be drink specials for attendees and 230 Fifth will be exclusively set up for this event. What a great way to usher in 2010! We hope to see lots of Web2Fem members there.
The 230 Fifth Ave Rooftoop is located at 230 5th Ave, on the west side of Fifth between 26th and 27th streets in New York City. To learn more about this event and Web2Fem, please visit the Web2Fem website here.
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We here at JPD Studio hope you’re having a lovely holiday season.
JPD Studio and friends have been invited to attend a great holiday party, and we would love to see you there! JPD is a supporter of Girls in Tech, which is co-hosting a holiday party with bootup.io on the palindromic date of 12/21. The event is at the beautiful theforumnyc.com, in the heart of Union Square, and it’s sponsored by Microsoft (they’re bringing an Xbox!).
This will be an evening for drinks, hors d’oeuvres and special guests at a professional networking event for New York technology. This celebration aims to bring together all aspects of technology and business of technology in one event!
Please RSVP here by simply entering your name and email. Reserve your place as soon as possible, because space is limited, and only those with names on the list will be admitted.
Location: The Forum, 127 Fourth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Street: theforumnyc.com
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To coincide with the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC Nov. 16-19, Web2Fem, a network of women entrepreneurs, has teamed up with Drinks4Startups and Dynamic Network Services to host a networking event Nov. 18 at Gallery Bar. The event is inspired by the Web 2.0 Expo’s “Less is More” theme, which focuses on how financial constraints help drive creativity – there should be some great conversation from this! Drink vouchers will be provided by Dynamic Network Services Incorporated.
Web2Fem, sponsored and founded by JPD Studio’s Creative Director Jessica Perilla, is a network of women entrepreneurs looking to expand and explore roles in the evolving stage of Web 2.0. At these events, participants get to network, present products, track the latest online trends, social networking, compare gadgets, review software applications, discuss start up issues, address financial topics and more.
For more information about the group, and to RSVP for the event, please visit Web2Fem.com.
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This Tuesday, JPD Studio Creative Director Jessica Perilla attended an opening reception of The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. The exhibition celebrates designers, art directors and other creative professionals who have graduated from the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at SVA. It was organized in recognition of Department Chair Richard Wilde’s 40th anniversary at the College.
As a former student of Wilde’s, an alumna of the department, and now an instructor of Dreamweaver at SVA, Jessica says she was thrilled to attend the reception with Yaritsa Arenas of PixieGirl Designs, and fellow SVA alumnae Clair Lim and Jin Jin.
“The work was amazing, and it really showed the diversity of Richard Wilde,” Jessica says. “All these generations he’s influenced; everyone knows about Richard Wilde. It’s his approach and style that really make him stand out from the other professors. His assignments are really challenging but they push you to see things differently or in a way that you wouldn’t normally think of. He really pushed me to see things differently.”
The exhibit was designed by Kevin O’Callaghan, chair of 3D Design at SVA. The exhibit space places familiar advertisements, book covers, CD packaging and posters within everyday settings. A comfortable reading nook highlights book jacket design and feature covers for James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, among other best sellers. Subway advertisements, including theatrical posters for Broadway hits like Rent, Chicago and John Leguizamo’s Freak, are on view within a mock subway platform. A life-size bus shelter includes advertising campaigns for Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi and Showtime, while a mini-screening room projects television commercials and music videos.
“Kevin and his team did an extraordinary job with the exhibit,” says Jes. “They worked really hard – even staying overnight right before the opening – to bring the whole thing together. It looks great.”
For more information about the exhibit, which opened Oct. 13 and runs through Nov. 7, please visit the SVA website.
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There’s a little more color these days at Montefiore Childrens Hospital in the Bronx thanks to the efforts of JPD Studio’s Creative Director Jessica Perilla and the fantastic artists who participated in the latest Mural Project.
Over the course of three Saturdays, roughly 40 artists participated to help create the finished product pictured above. The colorful mural spans three walls and features the New York City skyline and some folks enjoying activities in a vivid, lovely green park.
JPD Studio is a proud sponsor of The Mural Project, which was founded by JPD Studio’s Creative Director Jessica Perilla in April 2007, and encourages artists to collaborate and donate their skills by creating lively, nurturing and visually stimulating murals in hospital walls to enhance healing for sick patients.
If you’d like to learn more about this cool effort, please visit TheMuralProject.com.
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We’re proud to be sponsors of Green Is: an event series that will work to promote green business by connecting doers, thinkers and thought leaders to inspire ideas and action into collaborations and innovations. This New York City-based networking group seeks to bring the community of green businesses and leaders into the spotlight by creating events that support the cause and business of sustainability as being viable – affecting the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit.
We love that they connect professionals from a cross section of diverse industries in intimate themed conversational spaces where ideas and collaborations are more readily realized.
To quote them, “At the core, Green Is: about seeing (new) media & technology as a great potential to innovate solutions that will bring us closer to answers pertaining to the sustainability challenge. We strive to collaborate and engage experiences that drive dynamic dialogue in a highly relevant networking space, where we hope to inspire action that will benefit citizen and community, professionally and personally.”
Green Is: will hold a launch event Oct. 17 at Meet at the Apartment, and we’ll be there! Meet at the Apartment, located at 101 Crosby Street in the Soho neighborhood of NYC, is a meeting space that combines technology within a unique, artistic and intimate setting.
As a design studio that strives each day to be lean and green, we’re so pleased to be a part of this cool effort. Please visit the Green Is: website at www.green-is-here.com.
We’re feeling like very lucky ladies here at JPD Studio; we had the opportunity to attend the taping of the “tech show” of the Martha Stewart Show yesterday!
Photograph by Jessica Perilla
Jessica, Deb, Kim, Krista and our friend Olga of Lipstockist.com were in the audience for the show, which will air in New York City at 11 am this Friday, Oct. 2. The topic was technology, and the show’s goal was to get viewers up-to-date on Twitter, Facebook, MyYahoo, and more! Twitter co-founder Biz Stone explained how “tweeting” has changed communication; Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes de-mystified the popular site; plus, we received essential tips from New York Times tech columnist David Pogue and Yahoo web editor Heather Cabot. It was so much fun!
At JPD Studio, we believe the social networking opportunities that sites like Facebook and Twitter offer are a brilliant, easy and free way to drive traffic to your site, so we were really excited to see Martha speak to the people behind these huge movements. We were encouraged to update our own Twitter and Facebook feeds during the taping; it was really fun to tweet and update our statuses to tell everyone what was happening in real time. Krista was even able to ask Martha a question about the way this new way of communicating is changing our personal lives and the workplace. It was so exciting!
Martha was fantastic in person and her studio in Chelsea was gorgeous. We’re inspired and so happy we were able to be a part of her show, especially since it was about tech communication: something that’s important to us. If you’re in New York City, please tune in at 11 am this Friday, Oct. 2 on NBC to watch! For a full listing of her show times, visit MarthaStewart.com.
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JPD Studio is a proud sponsor of The Mural Project, which will paint a beautiful mural at the Montefiore Children’s Hospital September 26 and October 3. The Mural Project was founded by JPD Studio’s Creative Director Jessica Perilla in April 2007, and encourages artists to collaborate and donate their skills by creating lively, nurturing and visually stimulating murals in hospital walls to enhance healing for sick patients.
Montefiore Mural Meetup Concept
This latest project at Montefiore Children’s Hospital will take up three walls, so the project has been split into two days; Sat., Sept. 26 and Sat., Oct. 3. JPD Studio will be sponsoring and supplying all paints and brushes, but artists are free to bring their own supplies if preferred. The hospital will also be filming for a documentary about the project, so they’ll be photographing and recording a time lapse of the artists painting, as well as conducting interviews of any artists who would like to participate! The Mural Project team will need all the help they can get to complete this special project in two days, so please tell all your creative friends, and RSVP for one day or both at TheMuralProject.com if you know you can make it!
The Montefiore Children’s Hospital is located at 305 E 161st St, Bronx, NY 10451. The project starts at 9 am, and will be on the first floor, all the way to the back of the floor. Take the 4 train there, get off at 161 St./Yankee Stadium, then head southeast on E 161st St toward Gerard Ave.
We at JPD Studio are very excited to announce the next Web2Fem meetup. Our fantastic guest speaker will be Law of Attraction Life and Business Coach Linda DeCarlo who will be presenting “Extraordinary Possibilities: How to Align with and Attract the Life and Business of Your Dreams.“
Jessica specifically asked Linda to speak because she has personally been an invaluable resource to JPD Studio. She was fortunate enough to meet with Linda earlier this year, and in just one consultation she pinpointed the areas in the business that Jessica needed to focus on. In her case, the answer was adding two key people to the JPD Studio team. Jessica says Linda pointed her in the right direction and has helped her take JPD Studio to the next level.
Here are some key items you will learn at this event:
• How to create a powerful road map for life and business success
• Four challenges entrepreneurial women face and how to move past them
• What the Law of Attraction is and how it works
• How to use this information to feel more grounded, focused and empowered!
This event, sponsored by JPD Studio, will be on July 30th at 6pm, held at the beautiful In Good Company workplace. IGC is a community workspace for women entrepreneurs in New York at 16 W. 23rd Street (right by the N, R, F or V train), on the fourth floor. Feel free to check out their website at: http://ingoodcompanyworkplaces.com/
There will be refreshments and networking before and after! Admittance to this event is $10. Seats will fill up fast so please RSVP at www.web2fem.com.
We’d also like to announce that the folks at Forbes 400 have offered Web2Fem members an opportunity to fill out a survey to be eligible for addition to the Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising Companies” list. To fill out the survey, visit forbes.com/promising. If you have any questions, please contact Marissa Madigan at MMadigan@forbes.com.
Event Details Recap:
When:
July 30th at 6pm
Where:
In Good Company
16 W 23rd St
New York, NY 10010
646-810-9195
I will be teaching Dreamweaver CS3 again this fall at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. The classes will be in Spanish, they are part of a new program called ¿Hablas Diseño? If you are interested in registering please contact Paloma Crousillat, advisor, Division of Continuing Education, at 212.592.2057 or pcrousillat@sva.edu.
On Saturday night, May 31st, LWALA had its first “Artists for LWALA Auction” event at the Gallery Bar in NYC. It was a huge success, 20+ multi-talented artists contributed their pieces to help support L.W.A.L.A’s charitable efforts in Africa. A few of those artists included Ayelet Rand, Desi Sanchez, David Ter-Avanesyan, all great friends of mine. I was honored to also be one of the artists. You can view a full list of the artists and their bios here.
I’d like to give a personal special thanks to the wonderful LWALA team for letting me be a part of their team and for organizing this amazing event, their contributions will make an immense difference in the lives of others. To find out about their next event, please stay tuned at lwala.org
In celebration of Internet Week Web2Fem.com has teamed up with several other amazing tech meetups to co-host the Drinks4Startups networking party on June 3rd at the Gallery Bar. The other meetups attending include: BKLN 2.0, Wimlink, Web2NewYork, CenterNetworks and BigScreen LittleScreen.
Come have a drink and network with other start-ups, innovators, web designers, programmers, writers, videographers, bloggers, marketers and spark the connections that will help your company grow, while having a fun night out!
When: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Where: Gallery Bar
120 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
212.529.2266
Last night Michael Ian Kaye presented at AIGA in NY. It was an amazing evening of who’s who in the world of book jacket publishing. Carin Goldberg kicked off the evening with a haiku about Michael. Then Michael began his presentation which was composed of 10 main topics which had actually been selected via a poll on his website. He told many insightful stories about his work. During the presentation he expressed how he dislikes titles, for example giving himself the title of Creative Director, Advertising Guy or Graphic Designer, among others, because he simply considers himself a Visual Problem Solver.
Midway through the presentation there was an “Oprah” moment, while he was showcasing one of his latest book designs for the School of Visual Arts, he asked us to look under our chairs. Everyone in the audience received the book courtesy of SVA. In the end, we were all inspired by Kaye’s love, excellence and commitment to graphic design. He then invited everyone in the audience for drinks at the Black Door, his treat.
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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.
Green Is: will hold a launch event Oct. 17 at 
