JS Creative Hires Two Designers

Jackson Spalding Division Brings Total to 10

ATLANTA (July 2007) — JS Creative, a division of Jackson Spalding, has added two new designers to serve its growing roster of creative services clients in Atlanta and Athens. They join five other designers, two video specialists, a media planner and team leader Mart Martin, who organized the division a year ago after joining the firm from The Coca-Cola Company.

Both Erin Barthold and Lucia Occelli bring graphic design and production experience to JS Creative and are proficient in programs such as Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop, as well as QuarkXPress, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

Barthold joins JS Creative after doing illustration and graphic design work in Baltimore and Cincinnati. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, where she earned many prestigious awards for her work, including the American Greetings Endowment Scholarship and the Willard W. Combs Memorial Scholarship for Illustration.

Occelli graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in graphic design. She joins the JS Creative Athens office from the Athens-Banner Herald, where she diversified her skills designing for both the classifieds and advertising departments.

Launched in Fall 2006, JS Creative offers clients a broad range of branding services, from naming companies to website development.

Background on Jackson Spalding

Jackson Spalding is one of the largest independent communications and creative services firms in the Southeast, with offices in Atlanta and Athens, GA serving clients nation-wide. It is a full-service image creation, cultivation and communications firm, serving companies “from first step to blue chip.” JS Creative, a division of Jackson Spalding, provides complementary marketing services in naming, corporate identity, graphic design, advertising creative and placement, Web site design and multimedia production. Together, the operation includes 55 professionals working across many business and organizational sectors. Clients include Barry Real Estate Companies, Chick-fil-A Bowl, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Delta Air Lines, Orkin Inc., Post Properties, Publix Super Markets and The University of Georgia. Jackson Spalding is a partner in Public Relations Organisations International, a network of independent public relations consultancies.

Since 2003, Jackson Spalding has been named:

among Atlanta Magazine’s top places to “keep your balance” in its annual “Best Places to Work: Dream Jobs” issue;
a finalist in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “A+ Employers: The Best Places to Work in Atlanta” awards;
one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Top Privately Held PR Firms in Atlanta”; and,
one of the 20 “Best Agencies to Work For” by The Holmes Report, a PR industry trade publication.

Jackson Spalding also was recently honored with several national industry awards for PR excellence, including a 2004 Silver SABRE Award and a 2004 Bronze Anvil Award of Commendation by the Public Relations Society of America. For more information, please visit www.jacksonspalding.com.

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