Tobias Frere-Jones

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November 2, Saturday 10:20 – Salt Galata

Tobias Frere-Jones traces his journey from high school student to professional designer, and insight gained along the way — direct and indirect influences, breakthroughs, mistakes, and hindsight. Recounting projects from a range of years, he details the development of his own thinking and understanding, and learning how to learn.

Biography

Following years of work as a painter, photographer and writer, Tobias Frere-Jones attended Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 1992. He published his first typeface while still a student at RISD, and over the next 30 years he has created some of the world’s most widely used typefaces. He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received the Gerrit Noordzij Prijs, the AIGA Medal, and Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communication Design, recognizing his contributions to typographic design, writing and education.