I’m Michelle, a Minneapolis-based type designer, lettering artist, and educator.

I make decorative type, custom fonts, and vector lettering for clients in a variety of industries. Recent clients include The State of Minnesota, Anthropologie, Trader Joes, The Bookish Box, and Shapco Printing.

I’m curious, detail-driven, entrepreneurial and adaptable — equally at ease working solo or as part of a team. Prior to 2024, I worked as an art director and graphic designer for small to mid-sized firms, leading and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across a range of projects and media, from web to print to motion graphics.

Outside of my studio time, I teach typography and type-adjacent topics at Minneapolis College of Art & Design. My design and teaching practices inform each other: teaching keeps me fluid and evolving, and design keeps my curiosity sharp.

If you are a studio, agency, or brand and need a hand with custom type, logos, fonts, or lettering, get in touch!

Teaching

I emphasize historical context and experimentation with calligraphy and sketching — encouraging students to extract relevant type DNA from history to shape their own typography voices and add richness to their work.

Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD, graduate program)

Typography — exploration of typography via calligraphy, lettering, layout, publication design and branding.

MCAD Continuing Education Worshops (focused on decorative vector type and intermediate lettering skills:

70s Lettering In Illustrator — Authentic ‘of the era’ inspired decorative techniques for vector type;

Botanical Type in Illustrator — 3 session workshop featuring decorative techniques for vector type in Illustrator;

Decorative Type in Illustrator — Decorative basics for vector lettering, drop caps, logos and more;

Hand-Lettered Logo — a four-part Illustrator workshop on logo design via calligraphy and advanced sketching and vectoring techniques.

I usually post about classes on Instagram and LinkedIn. Follow me there to be notified about open or new class offerings.

Tools for Designers

Calligraphy is so important to the study of type, but I needed my practice to be portable. Carrying around ink, brushes and paper is impractical for all the obvious, messy bulky reasons. I’ve been making custom calligraphic brush sets for myself since I first got an iPad pro in 2017.

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. The Fabuletters Brush Set family is available in my shop. The selection currently includes Blackletter, Gothic, Uncial and Devanagari — more sets, styles and bundles coming soon!