Category Archives: typography

2010 Calendar Is Available!

By faber. | Published: January 7, 2010
I swear I finished it before 2010. So what started out as a fun personal project last year is now officially a yearly tradition.  I am very happy with the way my quarterly calendar for the new decade has turned out.  This past year I think was a definitive year for me in how I look [...]
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Rock & Shop

By faber. | Published: October 17, 2009
If you were wondering where all the tattooed, pierced, layered clothing-wearing, trendy hip cats were in Durham today, then you obviously weren’t at Rock & Shop, because they were all there.  And I mean that in a good way, I promise. Rock & Shop is a cool little gathering that included a fashion show, some bands, [...]
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An Unforgivable Sin?

By faber. | Published: September 12, 2009
After watching Helvetica the other day, I got to thinking about type and especially the Modernist movement.  You can’t help but want to go make a 50’s-60’s era poster after watching that movie…. Well, at least, I can’t. So riding my wave of inspiration, I set out to do some research on one of my favorite [...]
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Inspiration: Andrei Robu

By faber. | Published: September 10, 2009
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)
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Nonsense Poetry & Live Typography: Ursonate

By faber. | Published: August 31, 2009
Fümms bö wä tää zää Uu, pögiff, kwiiee. Dedesnn nn rrrrr, Ii Ee, mpiff tillff toooo, tillll, Jüü-Kaa? Rinnzekete bee bee nnz krr müüüü, ziiuu ennze ziiuu rinnzkrrmüüüü, Rakete bee bee. Rrummpff tillff toooo? Nonsense Poetry, or Sound Poetry as it’s more commonly and way-less-awesomely known as, is a form of lyrical composition that forsakes words [...]
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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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