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I’m Michael Faber, a freelance graphic designer in Durham, North Carolina with an interest in print design, branding, typography, photography, dogs, cooking, letterpress, and a bunch of other goodness. I love talking design so if you have a project in mind or just want to chat about the relative merits of postmodernist typography or traditional Southern cuisine (I’m a Western NC barbeque guy - please don’t hold it against me), feel free to contact me.
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Category Archives: Design
Olympic Posters and the Glorious Man
It’s Olympic season, and for a design nerd like me, that means looking at this year’s posters and graphics and seeing how they stack up to the greats. It’s the designers’ conventional wisdom that work like Kamekura’s 1964 Tokyo posters, Aicher’s 1972 Munich Pictograms, and Wyman’s pop-art-infused 1968 Mexico emblem are among the most celebrated, [...]
Posted in Design Tagged aicher, colbert, fairey, Glorious Man, kamekura, olympics, poster, wyman Leave a comment
Curation Culture & Moving the Zeitgeist à la Frank Chimero, et al.
Ok, so if you don’t know who Frank Chimero is yet, you obviously are new at this internet thing. But Frank has updated his site a bit with some new work and a new blog for his really insightful writings, one of which really caught my eye the other day.
Chimero writes about Curation Culture (which [...]
Also posted in Editorial, Inspiration Tagged advice, curation, frank chimero, john-kyle mohr, publishing, respect, zeitgeist 1 Comment
That time of the year again
Last year, around this time, with freelance work abating for a bit, I gave myself a personal project to keep me busy. It was a good time to take a break, look back on the year, see my progress as a designer and evaluate some of the inspiration that it took to get me there. [...]
Also posted in Inspiration, Personal Work Tagged 2008, abduzeedo, calendar, fabio sasso, guilherme marconi, james white, pablo alfieri, poster, signalnoise 1 Comment
Design you can take to the bank
So today I had a totally unexpected and amazingly pleasant experience at my local bank. When I arrived, they were switching out my antiquated Wachovia ATMs with snazzy new Wells Fargo branded ones so I was eager to check out the new system. First off, I don’t really like going to the ATM. I let [...]
Design for Obama Book Released
No, not that one. This one:
This week, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Obama’s historic victory, Taschen books has published Design for Obama, a collection of posters from the eponymous website. The book, subtitled Posters for Change: A Grassroots Anthology is a curated collection of posters submitted to the Design for Obama website throughout and [...]
Also posted in Personal Work, Uncategorized Tagged design for obama, election, faberdesign, grant park, grassroots, obama, spike lee, taschen, victory poster 1 Comment
Inspiration: Andrei Robu
Andrei is a Romanian Graphic Designer with a serious knack for illustrative type. His illustration and design work is colorful, often highly patterned and, in some cases, hilariously irreverent. But his experiments with typography are most striking. Check him out!
Oh yea, and yesterday was his birthday – Cheers!
(via FormFiftyFive)
WTF: Jumping Light Explodey Hipster Guy
Ok, so here’s a little feature that I think I may have as recurring called WTF.
Today I want to focus on a design trend that really doesn’t make any sense to me.
The jumping, shattering stock photo hipster guy with a hoodie and bright lights shooting everywhere.
Here’s a prime example:
And here’s another one. With the same [...]
Designers Use Their Whole Brain
This past Saturday, along with a nice crowd of around 25-30 fellow creative minds, I attended an AIGA-sponsored event: “Ok, I’m Ready! Now what?: A design and business event.” The talk was led by Elliot Strunk of Fifth Letter, a design studio out of Winston-Salem, NC.
I almost didn’t go. Saturday mornings at 10 am is [...]
Also posted in Business Tagged accountant, aiga, Business, Durham, fifth-letter, freelance, lawyer, left-brain, respect, right-brain 4 Comments
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