Tobias Frere-Jones
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Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970), a pioneer in the world of digital type design, works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, an influential 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 his 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.
Tobias' brother is Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at The New Yorker.
[edit] Typefaces
Tobias Frere-Jones' types include:
- Armada, 1987–94
- Dolores, 1990
- Hightower, 1990–94
- Nobel, 1991–93
- Garage Gothic, 1992
- Archipelago, 1992–98
- Cafeteria, 1993
- Epitaph, 1993
- Reactor, 1993–96
- Reiner Script, 1993
- Stereo, 1993
- Interstate, 1993–99
- Fibonacci, 1994
- Niagara, 1994
- Asphalt, 1995
- MSL Gothic (Benton Sans), 1995
- Citadel, 1995
- Microphone, 1995
- Pilsner, 1995
- Poynter Oldstyle, 1996–97
- Poynter Gothic, 1997
- Griffith Gothic, 1997
- Whitney, 1996-2004
- Numbers (with Jonathan Hoefler), 1997–2006
- Phemister, 1997
- Grand Central, 1998
- Welo Script, 1998
- Mercury Text (with Jonathan Hoefler), 1999
- Vitesse (with Jonathan Hoefler), 2000
- Lever Sans (with Jonathan Hoefler), 2000
- Evolution (with Jonathan Hoefler), 2000
- Retina, 2000
- Nitro, 2001
- Surveyor, 2001
- Archer (with Jonathan Hoefler and Jesse Ragan), 2001
- Gotham, 2001
- Idlewild, 2002
- Exchange, 2002
- Monarch, 2003
- Dulcet, 2003
- Tungsten, 2004
- Argosy, 2004
[edit] References
- 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.
