I'm really excited about some of the projects I've got going on right now.  ceciliatan has successfully funded her Kickstarter  campaign to create a printed omnibus edition of her Daron's Guitar Chronicles, and I'm doing the cover and book design.  We've got a first draft that I'm really excited about -- hope to have a more final version to show off here ( Read more... )

Business cards for a writer with a focus on the Elizabethan era. She showed me some samples images from a book that appealed to her, I noticed a page from a book that looked like this, and suggested she use the business card as a short writing sample.  I love designing really personal business cards like this, that can visually give you so much ( Read more... )

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One of a series of two posters I'm working on for Booty Vortex. I wanted to try to capture some of the high-energy dance fest of their shows, along with a little of the retro disco vibe.

( Boogie down! )

Here are the wedding invitations I designed for Briavael O'Reilly and Nicole Pashka. They wanted the invites to look like carnival tickets, so I drew from my extensive collection of vintage woodtype fonts to create something with a fun old-time feel. The final invitations were 9" x 4", designed to fit into standard envelopes to keep costs down, ( Read more... )

I've been posting samples of my design work over at my facebook page for Rosenthol Design, but I know not everyone is on facebook, and it's easy to miss posts over there.  So I'm curious -- would you want to see some of my design work posted here, too?  Or is that overkill?

muffyjo suggested I write something for The Margaret Ghost blog about the process of updating the art for the new production -- I'm posting it here as well for your convenience.


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FYI, I've registered RosentholDesign.com and put up a web page with some samples of my work and testimonials from satisfied customers. So if you know of anyone who's looking to have some design work done, please feel free to point them there, or tell them to email gilly@RosentholDesign.com. Thanks ( Read more... )

A book is an inherently satisfying object to hold in your hands, at least to me.  But to be holding a book that I actually designed myself -- well, believe it or not, it's actually even more exciting than holding one that I was published in.  (Of course, they misspelled my name that time; at least this time, I can make sure it's right!)

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