Tobias Frere-Jones
Tobias Frere-Jones (born August 28, 1970 ) is an American type designer . He is the first American to be awarded the Gerrit Noordzij Prize for Typography from the Dutch Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in The Hague.
Life
Frere-Jones studied graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design , which he graduated in 1992. He then worked for The Font Bureau , Inc. in Boston . In 1999 he founded the design studio Hoefler & Frere-Jones with Jonathan Hoefler . In 2013 they dissolved their community, Frere-Jones has been working independently since then. The two founders argue in court about whether Frere-Jones was a partner or employee of the studio.
One of the most famous fonts from Hoefler & Frere-Jones is Hoefler Text , which is part of the standard Mac OS X repertoire . This font appears both in the Wikipedia logo and on the White House website . Frere-Jones has designed fonts for The Wall Street Journal , Nike , Gentlemen's Quarterly , Esquire and The New York Times Magazine , among others .
The Benton Sans font co-designed by Frere-Jones is a. used as the corporate font of frog design and the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . His Gotham font was used in Barack Obama's election campaign .
Frere-Jones has lectured at the Rhode Island School of Design , the Yale School of Art , the Pratt Institute , the Royal College of Art and the Universidad de las Américas .
Awards
- 2006 - Gerrit Noordzij Prize for Typography from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
Fonts (selection)
- Armada, 1987-94
- FF Dolores, 1990
- Hightower, 1990-94
- Nobel , 1991-93
- Garage Gothic, 1992
- Archipelago, 1992-98
- Epitaph, 1993
- Interstate , 1993-99
- Fibonacci, 1994
- MSL Gothic ( Benton Sans ) (with Cyrus Highsmith), 1995
- Microphone, 1995
- Mercury Text (with Jonathan Hoefler and Jesse Ragan ), 1999
- Retina, 2000
- Nitro, 2001
- Surveyor , 2001
- Archer (with Jonathan Hoefler and Jesse Ragan), 2001
- Gotham (with Jesse Ragan), 2001
- Monarch, 2003
Use of the fonts (examples)
- Examples of using Frere-Jones' fonts
The logo of the Italian party Scelta Civica set in Gotham. Mario Monti was the party's top candidate in the 2013 general election in Italy .
François Bayrou giving a speech in 2007. LA FRANCE DE TOUTES NOS FORCES slogan placed on Interstate Bold
Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen slogan in Benton Sans font . Image comes from the Federal Delegates Conference 2007.
Slogan for Barack Obama "Change" (change or change)
Web links and sources
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Publication written about Frere-Jones regarding Gerrit Noordzij
- 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 .
- Report in the New York Times about Frere-Jones
- Report in English on Frere-Jones
- Brief description of Frere-Jones at Fontshop
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Magazine: A Type House Divided , June 4, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frere-Jones, Tobias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American type designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1970 |