Author Archives: Dana

Fall at the Met

I’ve writ­ten about exhi­bi­tions at the Met in the past, and I think another trip to the Met in the near future is a good idea. Before Maelstrom and Vermeer are over November 29th, head uptown and check them out. Start with the Vermeer exhibit, which is located on the bot­tom floor. The Milkmaid, the high­light of […]

10 @ $10

Myfonts is a great typo­graphic resource for design­ers. It’s a place to buy and search for fonts, even if you don’t know exactly what you’re look­ing for. In their September newslet­ter, they’ve listed 10 fonts for $10 or less, a great deal for those of us used to see­ing fonts cost in the neigh­bor­hood of $300. Below is […]

Martha, Martha, Martha

Because I love craft­ing and great DIY ideas, I sub­scribe to Martha Stewart’s Craft of the Day and Organizing Tip of the Day emails. Recently I’ve seen many I’d like to do. A cou­ple of my favorites are the Handmade Tote Bags, Magnetic Flowers, Feathered Headbands, Book Page Placeholders, Birthday Card Books and the list goes on. All […]

Carve your initials

Through my trav­els on the inter­net, I came across the adorable Jessica Rust Designs per­son­al­ized din­ner­ware and fell com­pletely in love. All of her designs are mod­ern and fresh. My per­sonal favorite is the Birch Tree Collection. Carve your own initials!

Delicious Genius!

There are many, many rea­sons I love this city. Mostly its acces­si­b­lity to any­thing and every­thing you could want. Everyday it sur­prises me, even though every day I tell myself I’ve seen it all. Last Friday morn­ing, yet again, a pleas­ant sur­prise awaited me as I stepped out of the sub­way. NYC’s first mobile cup­cake truck, the Cupcake Stop, […]

Oh Scripts, How I Love Thee

Here at Leibowitz, it’s not often we get to use script fonts, which I think fuels my long­ing to work with them.
Here are some of the rea­sons I love:

I love their ele­gance. Truly beau­ti­ful.
I love the huge num­ber of pos­si­bil­i­ties they offer, with most faces hav­ing mul­ti­ple ver­sions of each let­ter­form.
I love that there’s a wide spec­trum, from ultra […]

Finger Paint with your iPhone

It took me a while to get myself an iPhone, but now that I have it, I don’t know what I ever did with­out it  —  and appar­ently you can even illus­trate the cover of New Yorker Magazine with it. Jorge Colombo — an illus­tra­tor, phở­tog­ra­pher and designer  —  did just that. The June 1st cover was illus­trated com­pletely on the iPhone using the Brushes […]

The Model as Muse

(left) 1955 Richard Avedon phở­to­graph “Dovima with Elephants”; (right) the open­ing exhibit
I get my mom the same gift every Mother’s Day  —  a mem­ber­ship to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since I wasn’t going to be able to spend this past Sunday with her, I invited her to the Met for a few hours to won­der around and […]

Yankee Stadium: Top 10 Reasons to Go

Since I haven’t done a base­ball blog in over a year, I thought it was time to update every­one on the new sta­dium up in the Bronx. I had the plea­sure of going to one of the games this past series with Cleveland, and expe­ri­enc­ing the Yankee’s new digs for myself. Here are my top 10 rea­sons you should get […]

So you think you’re a designer?

A good friend of mine and fel­low designer sent me a link to a web­site recently. Since we as design­ers are using fonts all day every day, we should be able to rec­og­nize var­i­ous let­ter­forms from many of the font fam­i­lies we use con­stantly, right? Take this font chal­lenge here, and see how you stack up to […]