Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer

Blog Category: my creative projects

Horizontal protest sign. Black background with text: "ICE learned terror tactics from the NAZIS. The Nazis learned them from America’s JIM CROW SOUTH." "ICE," the first occurrence of the word "NAZIS" and "JIM CROW SOUTH" are in large white caps in a distressed typeface; the rest is in smaller and yellow.

Recent protest signs and posters

Happy Caturday! – February 14, 2026

Cropped photo of toy kittens carrying a heart-shaped candy made of black and white chocolate. Pale blue background.

Happy Valentine’s Day 2026 – 3 of 3

A grainy closeup of a dead mouse or rat against gray asphalt and a gray wall. There are three bright red hearts with black outlines above the animal.

Happy Valentine’s Day 2026 – 2 of 3

Tight crop on the ribbon of a wreath on a gray-green door. The wreath is a brown wicker circle with pale pink maribou feathers and a red metallic heart garland wound around it. There's a red ribbon bow at the bottom.

Happy Valentine’s Day 2026 – 1 of 3

Closeup photo of black cat with yellow-green eyes wearing tiny Santa hat. Light background.

My beloved first cat Lucy (RIP), ready for Christmas Eve!

Two square vintage-style illustrations of a gray tabby kitten, sitting in a red Santa boot, side by side. Behind each kitten is holiday greenery. The kitten on the left has a small, unsmiling mouth and blue eyes, and is holding a card that says "From ME!" The kitten on the right has a larger, smiling mouth and yellow-green eyes, and is holding a card that says "Happy Holidays from Nicola & Eights"

Transforming a vintage holiday kitty into Eights the Cat!

Red background with line drawings of sea creatures in white. White glow around illustration of Cthulhu with a green Santa hat.

Happy Holidays from Nicola, the Gods of the Fathomless Deep, and Eights the Cat!

Frame at top: Light teal with "#TeslaTakedown" in white and "AWARDS" in yellow. Frame at bottom: In white banner "Winner: Best New Sticker / Nicola G." Inside frame: Protest anti-Tesla sticker (vertical): white background with cropped black and white photo of the front of a Cybertruck in 3/4 view. Above the car is red all caps type "FINALLY"; below the car is black all caps type "BIRTH / CONTROL / FOR MEN." In small gray type at bottom: "Photo © Mr.choppers - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152037030"

Award-winning political protest signs

Photo of a red heavy cardboard box with black corners on the lid, on a light gray patterned comforter. A label on the front of the box has a photo of a black cat lying on a flowered beige comforter.

Lucy’s the Cat’s “Memory Box” – (TW: pet death, grief)

Repeating pattern of a photo of a single Paris Daisy, heavily color-manipulated so it's orange and magenta.

Saturate, map gradient, repeat. Manipulated photos from my collection.

iPhone screenshots using the Seek app. Left to right: sculpture of bird ID'd as Common Raven, plant with flowers ID'd as Ivy Geranium; yellow coaster with grey kitten illustration ID'd as Mammal; gray-and-white cat ID'd as Domestic Cat.

Flower and plant identification using the Seek app

Political stickers

Fake? Font Friday 5: Copyrights in the Age of AI

Photo of round pewter pin silhouetted against a white background. Pin is medium silver gray, slightly weathered, and has three parallel black arrows debossed across it. Arrows are pointing down and to the left at a 45-degree angle.

Three Arrows symbol

Video: illustration of blue geometric mesh kitty with pulsating red heart and text "Happy Valentine's Day / from Nicola and Eights The Cat / Feb. 14, 2025"

Happy Valentine’s Day from Me and Eights The Cat (scroll down for video)

preparedness supplies:

Starting or revamping your preparedness go-bag

Vertical image of gray cat with white chin, on white background. Cat is lying with her back to the viewer and her head turned around to face towards the viewer. Her back fur has visible brush marks. Black text above the image reads "Odalisque, After Brushies" in an ornate script typeface.

Fur Font Friday 1

In the bottom half of the image is a black and white photo of Patti Smith from the neck up, singing into a microphone. Above her is text in acid green all caps in a stencil typeface: "This is not a time to be dismayed / This is Rock 'n Roll time / This is what Patti Smith trained us for." In small acid green condensed type across the center bottom: "Design: IG @nicola_ginzler - www.nicolaginzler.com - Inspo: Henry Rollins & Rasmenia Photo: Beni Köhler, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3390571"

THIS IS NOT A TIME TO BE DISMAYED.

Overhead photo of attractively rumpled LGBTQIA+ Pride flag: From left: triangle of yellow with purple circle (intersex symbol); chevrons of white, pink and blue (trans colors); chevrons of brown and black (people of color); horizontal rainbow stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

(Queer) Flag Font Friday 2024

On left, image showing type samples from Adobe Fonts. On right, type samples of Adobe Fonts in rainbow colors: 8 Heavy (hot pink); Barbra (red); Droog Heavy (orange). Glodok Display (yellow-orange); Sonsie One (acid green) TheCatHasAHat (green); Yink (cyan blue)

Favorite Adobe Fonts, 2024 Sticker Fonts, Font Friday

Fun with AI Font Friday 1 – blending images

FLG Font Friday – The Merch Edition!

On left: 2x2 images of a fox-bird hybrid, about 80% rendered; on right: 2x2 images of black-tailed jackrabbit, about 40% rendered

Phasing-in Fauna Font Friday

Pics ’n Vids from Nicola’s Burningperson 2023

FLG Fundraiser Font Friday: “Mutant Zoo: Monster Ball 2023”

Would you like some OWEOs?

Eyeball Youball

Elder Mother – designs for merchandise

Favorite Adobe Fonts, 2023 Sticker Fonts, Font Friday

FLG Font Tuesday

THREE of my designs were chosen by the Burning Man organization for printing as stickers to be given to all participants

AI generated images of a fox with blue wings in a desert environment, created using Midjourney and Adobe Firefly software. Type below images reads "See Image 26 for an AI-generated “blend” of these two images."

Firefly Fox-bird Friday

Six sticker designs are described in detail in post. Left to right, top row: "We are all so beautiful"; "Animalia" with curvy, fanciful beetle; "(AI)nimalia" with pink fox-bird; Left to right, bottom row: Taxonomy of a cat with an attitude; "Animals of the Black Rock Desert"; "They visit us here" dragonfly

Frequent Font Friday

Happy International Women’s Day 2023!

Flaming Lotus Girls 2023 “Mutopia” sculpture stickers

How to make a cup of time

Foam Slime Font Friday – Late Valentine’s Day Edition

“Aqua Regia, Hell’s Beverage of Choice”: New Merchandise from Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim books

Red pepper sculpture

Make Your Own Red Pepper Sculpture

Teapot, tea cozy and teacup

How to Make a Tea Cozy with Hedgehog-in-a-Teacup Fabric

Arthur in 1957 - 1 year old

A Photo Album for My Cousin Arthur

Nooooo! It are my birthday!

Gun and blood spatter

Fearsome Font Friday

Volume knob turned to eleven

It Goes to Eleven

"Steampunk" rabbit collectible toy

Steampunk rabbit collectible toy

Victorian “Cobweb” Valentine

Silk brocade kimono

Silk brocade kimono