Our graphic designer Kim Sall has some very exciting news: her beautiful, fun holiday card designs are available for purchase through the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa)! The cards, which are a very cute 2.25 square inches each, include four of each awesome color combination (for a total of 16 cards), and are for sale in the MoMA Stores in New York City or on the MoMA Store website.

Kim developed the colorful striped tree design as a student at Pratt in 2005; an assignment in her Communications Design class called for the creation of a holiday card design that MoMA would sell as part of their coveted holiday card collection. Years later, while freelancing at MoMA in 2008, she discovered that she could submit the designs she had developed in the class three years prior. Out of thousands of submissions, the selection committee chose Kim’s design as one of the 20 artists’ cards for the 2010 season!

“I love colors, I love patterns and stripes,” Kim says of her design. “I had several variations of holiday themes, like Santa hats, candy canes and ornaments too. I got really into the project, and was really excited to submit.”

We couldn’t be more proud of Kim. The whole JPD Studio team is planning on using the cards for gifts this holiday season.

“I’m super excited and proud,” says JPD Creative Director Jessica Perilla. “I’m so happy to spread the word about these, we want them to sell out way before the holiday season rolls around. This is the card to use if you’re sending a gift.”

If you want to sport some of the coolest holiday cards around this year, head over to the MoMA Store online to grab a few boxes for you and your friends. And definitely hurry before the JPD team cleans ‘em out!

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By now we’re sure you have either heard about or are using Twitter. It’s a great way to stay on top of what others are doing, and keep people filled in on what’s happening with you.

Now, you can see what’s happening here at 234 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 203, by following InsideJPD on Twitter! The JPD tweeters, Jessica, Kim and Krista, will keep you abreast of the latest goings-on here, whether project-related, design-related, Mini Monster-related or just something silly we’d like to share. You can tell who’s who by our initials: jp for Jessica, ks for Kim and kc for Krista.

This is a great way to see what we’re doing on a day-to-day basis, if you’re curious about how we get things done around here. We love to share! Consider this your formal invitation to join the discussion at Twitter.com/InsideJPD.

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JPD Studio is participating in a competition for women-led start-ups, and we’d love your support! We think we have some great ideas and want to catalyze JPD’s visibility and growth, and this competition will help us do just that.

The competition, called the “Catalyst Competition — Awarding the Leading Women-Led Startups” is being presented by the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, planned for Jan. 26, 2010 in San Francisco. The conference aims to catalyze the career development of women working in high-tech. The event is hosted Vator.tv, a leading platform for innovators to broadcast themselves, and provider of news and information through VatorNews, and Girls in Tech, a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology.

Winners of the Catalyst Competition will present onstage at the Catalyst Conference to an audience of hundreds and a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and investors as judges. If we win, the opportunity will allow us to get feedback as well as the opportunity to present our ideas and the incredible projects we’re working on, and will help us expand and grow our vision further.

Please vote for us on the Vator.tv website, and help us get one step closer to sharing our ideas with other women-led start-ups! We very much appreciate your support.

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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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At JPD Studio, we’re busy with a lot of things, but we’re also making shelf space for a new trophy; our site design for DANNIJO.com has won a gold in the Creativity Annual Awards!

Many thanks to Deb, who entered us in the Creativity Annual Awards in August. This year, the judges received thousands of entries from all over the world. The winners were selected by a judging panel representing 36 countries and 32 U.S. states. According to the folks at the Creativity Annual Awards, DANNIJO.com was considered by the judges to be an example of outstanding creativity and design. To receive the Gold Award, the site design must receive an average score over 5.5, a score only given to the top ten percent of entries!

Creativity Annual Awards will publish all winning entries alongside credit information in a 400-page hardcover Creativity Awards Annual. We can’t wait to see it in print.

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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.

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 hope to see you there!

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JPD Studio’s creative director, Jessica Perilla, will be an instructor of Dreamweaver at New York City’s School of Visual Arts this semester. Jessica has also been an instructor for the Dreamweaver course in Spanish these past two years as part of SVA’s “Hablas Diseño” program.

During this informative and fun course, Jessica will instruct students how to create a website with Adobe Dreamweaver, an intuitive and straight forward industry standard in web design software. Dreamweaver allows for the direct creation and editing capabilities of HTML web pages without forcing users to do any hard coding themselves. In this course, Jessica, who is an SVA alumna, will instruct her students how to save images properly for the web, how to use web-safe colors in design elements, and use Dreamweaver to create and save HTML pages. The course will begin with topics such as setting up and editing preferences, site definitions, text, images and links. The class will learn how to use tables, AP elements and iFrames to control placement of elements and links on pages. Other topics that will be covered include JavaScript behaviors and cascading style sheets (CSS); how to add short movies and sound files and upload the site to a server. Each student will complete a functioning website, which will be critiqued by Jessica during the last session.

The class starts this Thursday, September 24 and runs through December 17, 2009, from 6-10pm. To register please call 212.592.2200 or for more information visit www.sva.edu.

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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

Price:
$10.00 per person

RSVP limit:
25 “Yes” RSVPs

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We’re very proud to announce that JPD Studio is the recipient of three awards from DesignFirms.org for web design!

The winning sites, A Nu Healthy You, DANNIJO and Lipstock can be found on DesignFirms’ awards page. The sites were judged on creativity and design, programming and compatibility and ease of use and effectiveness.

DesignFirms.org is a fantastic design community, marketplace and is host to one of the world’s largest directories of web designers, developers and graphic designers. We’re so excited to have these beautiful sites recognized!

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We don’t mean to toot our own horn, but we’re just thrilled to announce that Jessica Perilla Design Studio has been listed by Automattic.com (the folks who created WordPress) as VIP Consultants. As WordPress VIP consultants, we are trusted and recommended to handle large-scale projects because of our work with Real Simple and All You Magazine at Time Inc.

WordPress is a fantastic Content Management System; once a WordPress site is built, users can easily log into their sites to maintain and update content themselves. In our opinion, it’s the best open source CMS application out there! Using WordPress, JPD Studio builds websites and blogs that range in size from small and simple to large and complex.

Here are links to some of the recent WordPress blogs and sites we’ve created:

• http://intervene.drugfree.org/
• http://www.nextmosh.com
• http://www.lwalacommunityalliance.org/blog/
• http://dailysavings.allyou.com/
• http://www.anuhealthyyou.com/blog/
• http://fourthworldlove.org/blog
• http://lipstockist.com/blog/
• http://dannijo.com/pulse/
• http://www.globalsynergies.com/
• http://theartistvisa.com/

Check out the Jessica Perilla Design Studio VIP Consultant listing on the Automattic website!

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I will be teaching Dreamweaver this semester at the School of Visual Arts, the class will be divided into two sessions: Jan 28th – March 5th and March 18th – April 29th. To find out more information about the course you can attend SVA’s open house tonight, January 8th 2009 at 6:30pm at 209 East 23 Street, where I will be speaking about the class and taking questions.

Or you can view all the details at (scroll down for my class):
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/ce/index.jsp?sid0=3&sid1=332&page_id=842

See you in class!

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Jessica Perilla will be teaching Dreamweaver in Spanish at the School of Visual Arts starting next week January 30th, 2008 as part of their new program ¿Hablas Diseño?. Below is the official press release.

The Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will offer a new series of advertising and graphic design courses, from beginning to advanced levels, taught entirely in Spanish. The faculty members, all native Spanish speakers, are practicing creative professionals who have lent their talents to such clients as Burberry, HBO, IBM, The New York Times, Nike, MTV Networks, Random House and Target, among others.

“With this program, New York’s Spanish-speaking community and those seeking heightened marketability within the growing Spanish-language media gain access to a choice of studio-based, career-enhancing classes taught by respected art directors and designers,” says Joseph Cipri, executive director of the Division of Continuing Education at SVA. Jose Luis Ortiz Tellez, a longtime SVA faculty member and award-winning design consultant,  “This program reflects the global outlook SVA has always embraced, by aiding designers that are transitioning into the Spanish-language market, and those seeking an immersion into U.S. design culture.”

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Our web design work for Richard Perry Architect was recently published in Web Design Index by Content 3 by Gunter Beer published by the Pepin Press. You can view the book at http://www.pepinpress.com/catalogue/view/124

Here is a blurb about the book:
Would you like an overview of the state of the art in web design in a specific field? Web Design Index by Content provides exactly that: every year, 500 new designs are selected and grouped in more than 20 categories, such as architecture, art, fashion, food, IT, music, photography, product catalogues, etc.

Two pages from each site are included: an opening page and a page representative of the nature of the site. The accompanying CD-ROM allows you to view the designs on screen and to access the entire sites online.

The Pepin Press/Agile Rabbit Editions web design indexes are international best-sellers, with about a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide.

For more information, visit http://www.webdesignindex.org

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