Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer

Blog Category: pearls of wisdom

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

Photo shot from above of a gray and white cat with light green eyes, looking up at the viewer. The cat is in a cardboard shipping box.

Late for Boxing Day—Eightses in Boxes

Illustration of a dark winter's night with stylized stars and conifer trees. In the right center are a polar bear and cub, wearing red Santa hats. The "mama" bear also has glasses drawn on, and the bear cub has whiskers drawn on, both in red. Below the illustration is text in red: "Wishing you peace, joy, and the company of your favorite beings. Xoxo, Nicola and Eights the Cat."

In praise of family and friends!

Illustration of the Earth in space, orbiting around the sun, and showing the tilt of Earth's axis at the December and June solstices and the March and September equinoxes.

Happy Winter Solstice! (Northern Hemisphere)

Illustration of cheerful man in a winter coat and hat carrying an armful of red and green packages. Writhing green tentacles sprout from the package on top. In red text to the left of the man is the following: "Share the gift of eternal, gibbering madness with all your loved ones this Cthulhumas." at the very bottom right is small text: "votecthulhu.com."

Happy Cthulhumas 2025!

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)

Fanciful image: photos of tabby cats in various positions spelling out "LUCY"

Neko Font, in honor of Lucy the Cat, 1991(?)–2008 – (TW: pet death, grief)

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

preparedness supplies:

Starting or revamping your preparedness go-bag

Misty forest scene with two people seen from the back, arms around each other, in the middle foreground. Across the bottom third is white type: "11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health"

11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health

Photo of myself in the mirror, cropped to just the torso. I'm wearing a black T-shirt with a cat outline in white. Below that is white text: "I'M A CHILDLESS CAT LADY AND I VOTE." My gray and white cat "Eights" is photobombing me from her cat tree on the right side.

Fur Font Friday 2

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

(Twitter post style) Demon: *booming* HOW? How were you able to summon me?!

Formatting in MS Word

artnet: Artists May Have a New Weapon in the Fight Against A.I. Generators—a Data ‘Poisoning’ Tool

Red-tinted photo of a single caribou with a white rectangle superimposed. Two lines of black type inside that: "Nurraq" in English letters and in the "Nurraq" Inuktitut typeface.

First Nations Font Thursday 3 — Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning

Pics ’n Vids from Nicola’s Burningperson 2023

Happy International Women’s Day 2023!

My gray-and-white tuxedo cat "Eights" lying on a gray comforter. She has a tiny orange party hat badly Photoshopped onto her head and is looking directly at the viewer.

Feline Font Friday 3 – it’s #eightsthecat’s 7th birthday, also it’s Tuesday

Final F-U Friday: If You Really Hate Someone

Fear-Free Fur Font Friday, except no fonts and it’s Sunday: Halloween Safety Tips for Pets

Fur and Feathers Not-Font Not-Friday-Either

Fonting While Female Font Friday

Foam Slime Font Friday – Late Valentine’s Day Edition

Forget-Me-Not Font Friday

Find a Font Font Friday

First Americans Thursday, No Fonts: Thanksgiving Edition

Father Friday 2, No Fonts (CN: loss of father)

1966? Black-and-white vintage outdoor photo of a man wearing an overcoat standing on a grassy lawn with college buildings in the background. His hands are on the shoulders of two small girls in front of him: a smiling hark-haired girl with bangs and a shy-looking girl. Her hair looks light brown but it's actually red in real life.

Father Friday 1, No Fonts (CN: death)

F-in’ Hilarious Font Friday

Block of blurry, unreadable type

‘Forgetting the Point of a Website’ Font Friday

Cafe menu with five fonts

Four or Five Fonts Friday

#Ferguson Font Friday

How to shelter from fallout after a nuclear attack on your city

Mayonnaise Hatred: A Brief History of Mayo and Disgust

Internet Population and Penetration

What the World Would Look Like If Countries Were As Big As Their Online Populations, and Other Great Charts

Size comparison of stars

Movie Monsters, Tallest Buildings in 1896, Solar System Planets and of Course Spaceships: Size Comparison Charts

Waffling: How FEMA determines how bad a disaster is

How to Recognize the Artists of Paintings

Aluminum can straw holder

19 Cool Design Features Hidden On Stuff You Use Everyday

xkcd on Google Glass

xkcd on Google Glass countermeasures

Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff

Cartoon Laws of Physics

demi-tasse-old-country-roses-teacup-and-saucer

‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ by George Orwell

Kris Perry and Sandy Stier wave to the crowd

Supreme Court’s ruling overturns both the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8

Typeface anatomy

Desktop Backgrounds Designed to Make You Smarter