Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer

Blog Category: history

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

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!

On left top - black background with white sans serif type: "May your holidays be filled with wonderful things!" On left bottom - white background with red fancy script type: "Nicola & Eights the Cat." On right: black and white Victorian photo of a smiling woman holding a cat.

Vintage kittens!

Colorized vintage black and white photo of three smiling butch/femme couples in elegant formal dress, wearing ice skates on a skating rink. They are in the midst of dancing the tango. Black text at center bottom: "JM Tango-Club - Revue der modernen Tänze."

Elegant Butch/Femme Tango Dancers On Ice!

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!

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)

Yellowed vintage 1906 illustrated postcard. Front: a black and white kitten with a green ribbon around its neck. The kitten is in a light blue vertical oval with a gold border, and holly leaves with red berries below it. In the bottom left is "Christmas Greetings" in gold type. In pencil in the center bottom is "From Adrian [?] Hallowell." In the bottom right is the manufacturer's information in faint blue print: "Copyright 1906 by H. J. Robbins, Boston." Back: addressed in faded black ink to "Master Ralph Springman, Palmyra, Nebr." Postmark is "Lincoln, Neb. - Dec. 24, 1906 - 11 AM." A green 1-cent stamp is cancelled with wavy black lines over red type that says "Post Card."

1906 “Christmas Greetings” Postcard: Kitten with Holly

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)

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

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

Flyball (the Space Cat) Font Friday

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

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

Fibonacci spiral with sequential arcs of a circle cutting through squares in the Fibonacci sequence

Fibonacci Font Friday

Finnish Font Franz Font Friday

Film Fonts Friday 1

Font Microsites Font Friday

(Rainbow) Flag Font Friday

Fahrenheit Font Friday

Fhtagn Font Friday 1

Hand-written alphabet in Copperplate script on graph paper, with quill pen

Feather Font Friday, or the Quill Pen

Far Away Font Friday: National Geographic’s Cartographic Typefaces

First Sans Serif Font Friday

First Nations Font Thursday 2 — Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning

Collage of photos of Lucy the black cat

Feline Font Friday 3 — in honor of Lucy the Cat, also it’s Tuesday

Featured Font Friday: The Improbable Resurrection of a Quirky, Once-Popular, Art Deco Font

Flowing Font Friday

Fightin’ Font Friday

New York "N"

Foreign Font Friday 2

Feudal Font Friday

Fleurons Font Friday

Found Font Friday

Fans Font Friday 3 – Art Deco

Dwiggins hand-drawing letters

Forgotten Font Friday

Fonting while Queer Font Friday

“Murder Most Foul” Font Friday

Fans Font Friday 1 – Flirtations

Fonting While Female Font Friday

Forget-Me-Not Font Friday

First Americans Thursday, No Fonts: Thanksgiving Edition

First Nations Font Thursday 1 — Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning

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)