Tobias Frere-Jones
·Born in New York August 28, 1970
·At age 14, he started exhibiting paintings, sculptures, and photographs in New York galleries.
·His family was writers and printers, which allowed him to know the power of written text and that made letterforms appealing.
·Went to Rhode Island School of Design.
·He graduated in 1992 with a Graphic Design degree
·First job out of school: Font Bureau, Senior Designer
·Typefaces created at Font Bureau were Interstate, Gothic, and Poynter Oldstyle.
·In addition to his numerous contributions to the Font Bureau library, he made three fonts, Reactor, Fibonacci, and Microphone for Fuse, a journal of experimental type design.
·1996 he taught a type design course at Yale School of Design and continues to teach at a graduate level.
·Tobias left Font Bureau in 1999 where he began working with Jonathan Hoefler at the Hoefler Type Foundary, Inc.
·Since working together, the two have worked on projects for The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living, Nike, Pentagram, GQ, Esquire, The New Times, Business 2.0, and The New York Times Magazine.
·Tobias has designed over five hundred typefaces for retail publication, custom clients, and experimental research.
·His work has been featured in Print, How, ID, and Page.
·In 2006, Tobaias Frere-Jones became the first American to receive the Gerrit Noordzij Award, presented by the Royal Academy of The Hague in honor of his unique contributions to type design, typography, and type.
·Quote: “The day we stop needing new type will be the same day that we stop needing new stories and new songs.” ·Tobias Frere-Jones
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