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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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Sunday precedes Monday, idiot.
So, thanks to some eagle-eyed Flickr users, I realized that my 2010 calendar was a day ahead of itself. Or behind, or something – either way, the dates were wrong. This was fixed a while ago and anyone that was sent a poster recently got the proper dates. Anyone who got the wrong dates has [...]
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Happy New Year
Thanks to everyone who has stopped by this year! More great stuff to come in 2010, including this years’ calendar, which I’m putting the finishing touches on and will have up in the next few days. There are a few sneak peeks of the calendar progress on my flickr.
If you haven’t yet, feel free [...]
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 Design, Personal Work Tagged design for obama, election, faberdesign, grant park, grassroots, obama, spike lee, taschen, victory poster 1 Comment
Nosferatypography
So we’ve been watching a lot of scary movies – specifically vampire movies. We started out with the classic Bram Stoker’s Dracula a bit ago, in which Bela Lugosi portrayed the stereotypical “Dracula-type” vampire – an erotic, seductive, and charming aristocrat whose victims become vampires themselves. But we had to go way back to what [...]
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Laika: A true Dynamic Typeface
A new typeface has emerged on the scene which threatens to force us all to rethink how we use type in the digital age. Laika is challenging the notion that type is a static thing that has discrete weights, styles, sizes, etc. What if there is a font that is all of those things? Laika [...]
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Daily Drop Cap
aily Drop Cap is a new blog by the ever-talented, master-of-the-swash Jessica Hische. If you haven’t heard of her, then you need to click on that link right now and marvel at her command of the swirl. Each day, she’ll produce a beautiful drop cap and provide all the fancy HTML code necessary to plop [...]
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It’s all in the delivery.
Rives is a poet and performer and an absolute genius with words. I’m sure he would have said that sentence totally differently, but he has a way with language that is rare and impressive. I first encountered him via (what else) TED and his talk about 4 am. Later I ran into the same talk [...]
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Not Just for Wanted Posters Anymore
idsgn.org has a great article today on one of my favorite typefaces, Clarendon. Of course, I’m partial to Clarendon; it’s the typeface used in my personal logo…
If you haven’t checked out idsgn yet, do it now. It is a fantastic new blog that I recently discovered and have fallen in love with. The layout is [...]
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Business Cards featured today
Today For Print Only (FPO) has a feature post on their site about my business cards. Is that something you write a blog post about, or maybe just tweet? Oh well, too late. Thanks, FPO!
Update: Well if it didn’t before, it does now… My cards are also featured today on Card Observer [...]
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Durham Book Rally Poster