Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer

Client Type: Personal

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

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.

Cut paper-style digital abstract illustration of the head and neck of a cat in browns and tans, with blue eyes and a pink nose, in a black rectangle, inside a square ocher background.

Isotope the Cat

A horror concept of floating ghost monsters on a forest road, on a spooky, foggy winters evening. With a grunge, texture edit. Text at bottom reads "May you make many new friends this holiday season. Love, Nicola and Eights The Cat"

Happy Horrorlidays 2024

Line drawing of a black raven standing on an anatomically correct red heart, in a small pool of blood, cropped so only feet and tail of raven are visible on the heart.

“Raven Heart” Valentine

Black background. On left: colored lights playing over woman DJ at rave. On right: DJ name "AMPRS&ND" in white neon-looking type. Under that, event name in yellow, date and time in blue.

Flaming Lotus Girls “Mutant Zoo 2024” fundraiser graphics

6 by 4 grid of brightly colored round sticker designs on white background.

Design submissions for Burning Man 2024 stickers

In the left column of the image, a huge orange number "8" overlaps the rest of the image. In the center and right columns, my gray-and-white tuxedo cat "Eights" is lying on a gray comforter. She has a tiny orange party hat badly Photoshopped onto her head and is looking directly at the viewer.

EIGHTS THE CAT is turning EIGHT and I’m inviting you to her birthday tea, Sunday, March 3, noon-4pm

AI generated images of a starfish, viewed straight on, and the head and shoulders of an imaginary fox-bird, viewed from the side. The fox-bird has a fox's head but soft feathers around the shoulders instead of fur. Both are silhouetted against a white background, with warm orange tones and teal and blue accents.

AI generated images of 9 Phyla in Kingdom Animalia

Left half: calendar with Calfornia poppies as background. Right half: gray-and-white meowing cat

2023 Calendar – California Poppies

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

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

1950s pinup-style illustration of a woman in a black bathing suit riding backwards on a huge black cat with three red eyes. Image is cropped so she is shown from the waist down. The background is a deep rust red. Pale white squares are staggered across the image with month days and numbers. Some numbers are replaced with names and there's an 8-pointed star behind them to indicate an event: yellow for a human or cat birthday; red for the adoption of a cat; gray for the death of a cat.

2022 calendar — Three-eyed cat plus alternates

Design submissions for Burning Man 2023 stickers

AI generated images of online gaming characters

“Holiday Tentacles” holiday card

“Nesting Origami Hearts” Valentine’s Day card

Origami Skeleton Cat Valentine’s Day card

“Bones” card

“Yule Cat” holiday card

“I Am Lying To You” street poster series

“Origami Snowflake” holiday card

“One World” holiday card

“Bunny Loves You Very Much” anniversary card

“Cthulhu Snowflake” holiday card

“All My Kittens” Valentine’s Day card

Cut paper style illustration of a faceless woman standing, holding a gas can in her right hand and a lit match in her left. The gas can says "GASOLINE" on it in gray. The background is red. The woman's skin is dead white. Her hair, dress, tights and shoes are black. To the right of the woman is black serif type: "Nicola likes to be warm"

“Nicola Likes To Be Warm.”

Black, engraving-style images of kitten and mouse facing each other. Behind images is a double starburst of thin gold rays. Type below images in antique script type: "peace."

“Peace” holiday card

Cut paper-style digital illustration of a woman from the chest up, blowing a kiss at the viewer. The woman's skin is dead white; the background and her lips and fingernails are red; and her hair, dress, and the outlines of her features are black.

“Kiss” (“Nicola loves you… when you leave.”)

Child's drawing style crayon illustrations with color and black condensed sans-serif text added digitally, in four panels. Panel 1: "Kitties are red" - with black crayon outline of a cat, filled in with solid red. Panel 2: "Bunnies are blue" - with black crayon outlines of a small and large bunny, filled in with solid blue. Panel 3: "My best present" - with black crayon outline of a wrapped present with a bow, filled in with solid yellow. Panel 4: "Is always you" - with black crayon outlines of three hearts, filled in with solid pink.

“My Best Present” holiday card

“Lucy wonders whether you taste good.”

2021 Calendar — “Year of Good Hunting”

One-page 2020 calendar. 4x6 grid has alternating squares of month and day text with image behind screened back. Image fills whole page: black line drawing of a seated hairless cat with elaborate tattoos. Behind the cat is a radial gradient centered at the cat's head: red at the center and dark blue at the edges.

2020 Calendar — Tattooed Cat

2018 Calendar — Month Numbers

2016 Calendar — More Round Things

2015 Calendar — Round Things at CERN

2012 Calendar — Spoonflower Fabrics

2010 Calendar — “New Worlds Quarterly”

Victorian “Cobweb” Valentine

“Hummingbird”