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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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Tag Archives: poster
Doughy Goodness
(cross-posted at OK Great)
Gear up Durhamites, The DOUGHMAN is coming on May 29, 2010.
For those of you that don’t know about the DOUGHMAN, it’s probably the coolest event you’ll ever hear about. It’s the world’s premiere team-relay-quadrathalon-slash-eating-contest and it’s coming back to Durham for the third year after a ridiculously successful 2009 race which was featured [...]
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 Also tagged aicher, colbert, fairey, Glorious Man, kamekura, olympics, wyman Leave a comment
2010 Calendar Is Available!
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 [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Design, Inspiration, Personal Work Also tagged 2008, abduzeedo, calendar, fabio sasso, guilherme marconi, james white, pablo alfieri, signalnoise 1 Comment
Eric Tan
Eric Tan is a compositional genius and an expert vector slanger. Although he posts very infrequently on his blog, I’ve always loved reading about his projects and seeing the final products as they emerge. Poster topics range from Pixar movies to Indiana Jones to Lost. Most of his posters look like a comic book interpretation [...]
Posted in Illustration, Inspiration, sculpture Also tagged beastie boys, designer, Eric Tan, indiana jones, movie, pixar, x-men Leave a comment
An Unforgivable Sin?
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 [...]
Posted in typography Also tagged beethoven, comic sans, grid, helvetica, josef muller-brockmann, typography 12 Comments
Occasional Print Club
I’ve been following Justin Knopp’s blog at Typoretum for quite a while and enjoying his regular posts about the art of letterpress. He and a bunch of pals across the pond regularly convene the Occasional Print Club (a brilliant idea by the way) where a bunch of letterpress and typophiles get together on an ‘occasional’ [...]
Personal Work: Lo-Lai Poster
I could probably write a thousand word screed on the history, rules, and strategy behind this epic game, but I’ll keep it short for now. Basically lo-lai is a game invented at Duke (where I went to college) about 50 years ago and is still played heartily today. It’s simple to learn, easy to play, [...]
Durham Book Rally Poster