Looking forward to being at the Celebrate Bar Mitzvah Showcase this Sunday! Stop by my booth and check out samples.

As a reminder, here’s the info for Sunday’s event:
Stamford Marriott
243 Tresser Boulevard, Stamford Connecticut
Showcase time – 12pm – 4pm

Well, Jane is absolutely gorgeous and has the most fabulous hair and smile. It was such a pleasure to draw her and what a fun theme for her bat mitzvah! I love a city theme.

What a beauty Marissa is and what a pleasure it was to draw her. Marissa’s event colors are pink and black and we had a great time with them even incorporating them into a metallic card stock for the back of her invitations (not shown). Marissa wrote me this: “OMG, the invitations are amazing! I have never seen such a cool invitation.” I love it when the kids are happy.

This was a fun one. A wonderful client from Bonaire in the Netherland Antilles contacted me for a logo for her new company. Taking my inspiration from the island’s habitat as well as recognizing that this was for a newly-established financial institution, I designed the below. Muted colors are out when dealing with Bonaire. Other design elements included the sage leaf (representing new beginnings and a bow to the company name) and the water wave at the bottom. The outside image is in a square format to represent strength, stability and power. They loved it.

This was a beautiful idea. A Dad called me about making a memory for his young children. Not traditionally sentimental, he wanted to instead give them a personal message they wouldn’t forget. I thought this was really touching. I’m pretty sure he was careful not to give them this at the same time he was giving them an XBox! :)

Boy, I have not been posting. I’ve been very busy though designing stuff for my Elevate Your Sleep project and for my favorite bat mitzvah kids. Like all designers, I like to work in different mediums though and, in my off time, I’ve been knitting giant things and here’s a fun sampling. I’m planning on covering my apartment’s floor in them instead of a standard rug.

Didn’t I say I was going to be uploading this graphics blog more frequently?

Very excited to be given a grant to help educate upper- and lower-school students about sleep. I’ve become an engaging sleep nerd since I began my research and am completely awed by the power of sleep. More on this later as my project develops!

Here’s a great new bar mitzvah, Adam. Adam loves sports and wanted an NFL theme but “not football”. Not exactly sure where to go from there, I felt it was best to incorporate the NFL logo in some way, so I created two stylized stars and football looks. That worked. :)

These images were created for a NY interior designer. His client was wearing a pair of shoes like this and he wanted to incorporate a very large scale image of something like them into his apartment.

I think shoelaces are harder to draw than faces: shadow, shadow, shadow, highlight. Beat up old shoes seem to have a very distinct personality. I modeled these after a pair of my son’s old ones. Wasn’t sure I’d ever finish. We’re working with the base of the shoe color now as well as the cropping to figure out what looks best. Once printed, I’ll sign the piece.

Working on a great shoe graphic now too for a NYC client. They needed something very specific for their home, concept and size wise.

original

with client requested changes


The top was my original submission. The client asked me to incorporate an extra scroll in the below graphic and a change of text. Any thoughts on which is better, please email me at liz@olinergraphics.com

This should be a fun event. Still waiting on approval from the client. The intention for the event is to have split the participants into the 12 tribes of Israel and trek them around the various locations and big events of the Torah! Sounds fun. Hope they serve food.

Book Cover ideas for sign in books! Here’s a great example of the difference a great background image can make. All sign-in books are 13” x 10” and come with a matching dust jacket.

Fun “night club” version with color choices of lime green, yellow and turquoise.


Standard sign-in book cover. Remember there’s no extra charge for the backgrounds. We work with what you want for your event to make it graphically fun and exciting.

Michael looks great and ready-to-go for his Bar Mitzvah! Michael’s mom wanted a sign-in book for Michael just like she had made for his brother Jason a few years ago. Time flies!

Looking forward to spending next week updating and designing my new app. What will it be? Right now that has to stay a surprise!

Tags: bar mitzvah sign in books

I love it!

Portrait Poster


Sign-In Board Art


Giclee Print and stamp art

Excited to be working with Neal Voron and creating an image based on an inspiring poem his father, Victor Voron, wrote entitled “Love for A Grandchild”. For more information on this beautiful poem or to hear Victor read it follow the link here...

Neal will be offering prints of the image shortly...stay tuned.

I just put together a nice sampling of card stock options for custom invitations. Pick one and match it with a stunning UV custom cover of your image for a one-of-a-kind event invitation. Find it here!

It's be kind to tall people day. If anyone wants to take pity on me and "like" my Oliner Graphics fb page, that would be very kind. I'm trying to remember that marketing is a good thing to do when one is in business. Speaking of being kind to tall people. Am I the only person in the world that actually grew an inch in her forties? For the past two years my doctor has informed me that, indeed, I am now 6'3". Oh my.

Here’s a pretty one! Rachel looks absolutely gorgeous for her Bat Mitzvah! Rachel is wearing a fushia dress with a theme of butterflies. I had fun drawing this. Gorgeous hair, beautiful smile Rachel is ready for her big day!

Stamp art or Giclee Print standard


Portrait Poster 24” x 35”


Sign In Art Poster 24” x 35”

Very much looking forward to having Oliner Graphics’ app “Shabbat Blessings” featured in an upcoming NY Post article. We were contacted last week regarding women-owned app development businesses. We’ve been told that they are even sending a photographer! How exciting! I suppose my standard artist haircut may need to become more polished rather quickly. :)

In other news, we’re very much looking forward to our West Village studio becoming completed. Since the space is so small, I’ve really pushed the vertical space factor. My super figured out pretty quickly I was a designer when I kept talking about line and depth. The floor’s in, the tile is up in the micro bathroom and we’re awaiting the custom build-ins. (I originally thought it would be fun to make the cabinets myself but was quickly talked out of that!) We did a lot with a little space and cannot wait to use it!

Had a great, great design idea recently. I’m going to put together some kind of Ketubbah option for my clients. Hmmm, just need to figure out the Hebrew...

think liz think :)

Portrait Poster 24” x 35”


Sign-In Art Poster 24” x 35”


stamp art (also great as a Giclee print)

Click the below image to go to our FREE game link! Whoop! (soooo excited!)





FINALLY! Our latest app is out — and it’s a FREE download!!!
Designed for your iPhone/iTouch/iPad
Of course, I’m always thinking in the Jewish/Yiddish style and since I’m also on weight watchers (again), I’m thinking about food ALL THE TIME right now. “A Little Nosh” Pachinko Game is our tribute to the Latkas, corned beefs on ryes, pickels, sour cream and black and white cookies of your past and future.

Have some fun trying to get the latkes to hit the sour cream and rack up points. The high point score in the Oliner home is 23.

Portrait Poster (welcome sign) 24” x 35”


Sign-In Art Poster 24” x 35”


stamp art for custom stamps

I don’t do calligraphy for clients as I’m busy illustrating for them all the time, but I found a great link for someone who does — Irene, at Calligraphy, by Hand. Fellow Graphic Designer Irene turned to custom calligraphy years 30 years ago. Custom calligraphy is perfect for special occasions where you’d like to set a special tone. Check her out here. Once you order your Oliner Graphics invites you could go here and finish them up! She works nationally and internationally. :D

Well, I had some fun talking to my friend Gail from MitzvahChic.com yesterday and they will be up and running soon. We talked about her exciting new site layout and I’m going to be designing some templates for bar/bat mitzvah online rsvps for her. I’ve done these in the past and she loved them. Looking forward to it. I’m thinking themes: princess, all sports, modern or cooking. All the images will link back here to my website so hopefully that will result in lots of juicy business for me!

Going to the city later tonight to eat at Le French Triomphe and see Other Desert Cities on Broadway with a gang of women friends in our annual trek. I am concerned about the French Triomphe and the timing couldn’t be worse as I started Weight Watchers again. So, I had to preplan my menu which they teach you to do. I’m looking forward to an evening of salad with balsamic vinegar dressing sans nuts, reinforced by an incredibly filling large bowl of cooked carrots. I will consider my dessert to be a small dish of baked fingerling potatoes supplemented by meager glass of vin ordinaire. ~wheeze~

Here’s a rsvp card I’m working on just so I can get a graphic into this blog post! I’m doing good, I’ve blogged a lot this week. Work wise things are busy, raining...pouring...

Click here to link to an absolutely fabulous bar mitzvah planning guide!

Ouch, my poor friends at the formerly fabulous Mitzvahchic.com were brutally hacked away by someone a while ago and lost their online presence! They were such a terrific help to me when I was starting. What a lost resource! :( Fortunately, their incredible Mitzvah Planning Guide is still linkable and attached. Hopefully they’ll be up and running soon. I miss them.

I've owned this store forever, and I made the very first knish.
I put the tongue and corned beef together, I made matzo and gefilte fish.
I sliced pastrami for the whole East Side, I got the business from an uncle who died.
I make potato salad, cole slaw too. I own the deli, I'm a Jew.*

~with thanks to Stu Moss as he channels Barry Manilow’s “I write the songs”.

I suppose I needed a bit of cheesy humor today. I’m in rush mode. I have to try and finish 3 images by next week. rush-rush-rush :)

Here’s updates to the gorgeous Sara and initial sketching on Michael.

Well, I’m back from a week on a cruise and was delighted to discover that our learn “Shabbat Blessings” app had been featured in the Mitzvah Market (just love these gals) website under the most fabulous and “with it” title of, “10 ways Bar/Bat Mitzvahs have gone Hi Tech!” Thrillingly, (is that a word? it should be), we are in the number one slot!

In other news, I am full blast into another bar mitzvah season. My business-wise new year’s resolution is to blog more. :D

Oliner Graphics will be on vacation until January 3rd. Your questions are important to me and I will do my best to answer them, but I may not be as quick to respond next week. In case you want to order a package and are worried you’ll miss the sale, I have decided to extend the Hanukkah sale into January. I wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season.