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I’m Michelle — a Minneapolis-based designer with a deep focus on type.


With over a decade of experience in visual communication, I specialize in typeface design, custom lettering, and creative direction. I've worked as both an art director and graphic designer for small to mid-sized firms, both leading and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across a range of projects.

For the past two years, I’ve been teaching typography and related subjects at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), both at the graduate level and through workshops. I've developed and taught three workshops centered on vector type and intermediate lettering skills, including two classes on decorative typography and a four-part workshop on logo design through calligraphy. In Spring 2025, I taught Typography in MCAD’s online MA program, where I introduced custom type and lettering into the program’s core curriculum. Across all my classes, I emphasize historical context, encouraging students to draw from type history to shape their own voices and add richness to their work.

In 2025 I launched the Fabuletters Procreate brush sets, making an important part of my personal type-making toolset available to designers everywhere. Each unique brushset is crafted to help you replicate specific types of calligraphy — the correct pen angles are already informed in brush construction. So you can do calligraphy, make lettering, or even do your own letterform R&D, on your iPad, anytime, anywhere.

I’m curious, detail-driven, entreprenuerial and adaptable — equally at ease working independently or as part of a team. My design and teaching practices inform each other: teaching keeps my ideas evolving, and design keeps my curiosity sharp. My work is currently focused on custom type, fonts, and vector lettering projects for a variety of clients. If you are a studio, agency, or brand and need a hand, get in touch!

Type nerd — now 100% certified!


I made the leap from major type nerd to certified type nerd in 2021, when I earned a certificate in Typeface Design in the Type@Cooper Condensed Program.

My toxic trait? Hmm, probably my undergrad in Economics. After a stint in finance and consulting, I returned to my creative roots with a Graphic Design certificate from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD) in 2014, and followed up in 2019 with a Master of Arts. (I now teach in the program I graduated from, and yes, it does make me misty!)

Minneapolis-based Design Studio


Where do you call home? I live and work in downtown Minneapolis. My bulldog, Walter Cronkite, is a great studio partner, despite our conflicting agendas. Walter feels the studio has too many books and pens, and not enough snacks. (He’s not wrong, there are quite a lot of dusty old type specimens and various obscure tomes piled along side buckets of pens, ink and markers.)

And-Scaper Extraordinaire, since 2019!


Do you love ampersands, too? I began drawing illustrated ampersands in 2019, and posting them on Instagram. The project is called The Ampersand Storm. My goal for this project is to make 1,000 ampersands. There are over 300, and counting!

I love to make risoprints and stickers of my ampersands (like this hologram foil one). If this kind of thing is your jam, be sure to hop on the mailing list to get first crack at my next release of ampersand goodies!

Let’s chat.

I’m open for projects - let’s talk about yours!