Gemini Strategic Design

07/29/2022

And another batch of cover designs I've created over the past year or so. I love the range of themes and genres here.

Thank you for all the titles, Emily Hitchcock. 🙂

Check out the rest of my design work at https://www.pinterest.com/nozikdesign/boards/, and message if you are an author or business owner in need of design, marketing, branding or photography!

09/02/2021

During the shutdown in early 2020, I managed to pick up a wonderful new client, and am designing a TON of book covers for her and her press in Columbus. Here is a sampling of some of the book covers I've created (my faves, of the ones I'm allowed share... grrr.) Thank you Emily Hitchcock!

It's funny (or interesting? or really, really bad?) that I share much more of my photography, that I've been working on for about eight years, and very little of my design work, that I've been doing for over 30 years? Hmmmmm.

Enjoy!

https://www.pinterest.com/nozikdesign/boards/

04/29/2020

Considering I've used animation software before, this took WAY too much time, and isn't as cool as I'd envisioned. But I wanted to play around with Adobe After Effects to get a sense of how it works, and this is the result.

The real purpose of this was to play around with puppet warping, but I spent so much time figuring out the basics, and troubleshooting things that weren't working as I expected, that I didn't end up doing much with that. A little bit, but it's not that noticeable.

But stay tuned! I have five more days on the demo!

03/27/2020

A logo I designed for the wonderful author Emily Rapp Black and her ghost writing business. The name and symbol has deep personal meaning to her, so it had to be just right. There were a few different options, but I love how in this one, everything works together as a unit. The soft colors help give it a peaceful mood.

Always a pleasure working with you, Emily.

01/22/2020

I am cancelling my outdated Website hosted on GoDaddy, and have moved my online portfolio to Pinterest, until I figure out a better way to showcase my work. You can check it out here:

Nozik Design + Photography | Graphic designer with over 30 years experience in advertising and design. For my photography, check out geminiPH.com.

09/13/2019

Full cover design for "A Poetics of Plot" by Brian Richardson.

09/13/2019

Front cover design ideas for "Playing at Narratology" by Daniel Punday.

04/26/2019

12/12/2017

What starts out as a graphic design project often leads to bigger discussions with small biz and startup clients. So I worked with one of my favorite copywriters, Matt Krupa, to develop this infographic and help them figure it out.

10/02/2017

The book cover work of graphic designer Laurence J. Nozik. Final, printed designs as well as other rejected comps. This will be noted in each pin's description.

07/31/2017

Cover design options developed for an upcoming "novella in verse". Radioapocrypha envisions what would have happened if Jesus Christ had arrived for the first time not in Palestine 2000 years ago, but in a subdivision in Maryland in 1989, the year Depeche Mode released 'Personal Jesus.' In this suburban retelling of the gospel, Jesus is a hunky post-punk high school chemistry teacher and the disciples are a 12-member garage band."

The first design was selected.