Tobias Frere-Jones

Tobias Frere-Jones (born August 28 1970cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/nyregion/19profile.html | title = 2 Type Designers, Joining Forces and Faces | last = Dunlap | first = David W | date = October 19 2004 | accessdate = 2007-10-17 | work = The New York Times] ), a prolific type designer, works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, a type foundry in lower Manhattan. Frere-Jones teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program, with type designer Matthew Carter.

After receiving a BFA in 1992 from Rhode Island School of Design, Frere-Jones joined Font Bureau, Inc. in Boston. Over seven years as a Senior Designer, he created a number of the typefaces that are Font Bureau's best known, among them Interstate and Poynter Oldstyle & Gothic. He joined the Yale School of Art faculty in 1996 as a Critic. In 1999, he left Font Bureau to return to New York, where he began work with Jonathan Hoefler. Since working together, the two have collaborated on projects for "The Wall Street Journal", "Martha Stewart Living", Nike, Pentagram, "GQ", "Esquire magazine", "The New Times", "Business 2.0", and "The New York Times Magazine".

He has designed over seven hundred typefaces for retail publication, custom clients, and experimental purposes. His clients have included "The Boston Globe", "The New York Times", the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Whitney Museum, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Journal, and Neville Brody. He has lectured at Rhode Island School of Design, Yale School of Art, Pratt Institute, Royal College of Art, and Universidad de las Americas. His work has been featured in How, ID, Page, Print, "Eye" Magazine, and "Graphis," and is included in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. In 2006, Frere-Jones received the prestigious Gerrit Noordzij Prize, an award given by The Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) to honor innovations in type design.

Frere-Jones' brother is Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at "The New Yorker". [cite journal | url = http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=119&fid=532 | title = Excavating the history of lettering gives this New York foundry a contemporary edge | last = Twemlow | first = Alice | date = Winter 2004 | journal = Eye | issue = 54 | accessdate = 2007-08-02]

Typefaces

Tobias Frere-Jones' types include:

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* [http://www.typography.com Hoefler & Frere-Jones]
* [http://www.typography.com/about/biographies.php#frere-jones Frere-Jones biography at Hoefler & Frere-Jones]
*Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. "Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History." Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
*Macmillan, Neil. "An A–Z of Type Designers." Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.