An evening with Tobias Frere-Jones (NSW)

When: 11th May 2009

Following on from our sell-out typography talk last year, it’s with a great deal of pleasure that we’re bringing one of the world’s leading type designers, the internationally acclaimed Tobias Frere-Jones, to Sydney in May.

Tobias is the Principal and Director of Typography at New York type foundry, Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

After receiving his BFA in 1992 from Rhode Island School of Design, Tobias joined Font Bureau Inc. in Boston. During his seven years there as Senior Designer, he created a number of the typefaces that are Font Bureau's best known, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle and Gothic. He joined the faculty of the Yale School of Art in 1996 where he continues to teach typeface design. In 1999, he left Font Bureau to return to New York where he began working with Jonathan Hoefler. Since then, Tobias and Jonathon have collaborated 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 clients have included The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Cooper-Hewitt 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, and Print and is included in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In 2006, Tobias 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 education.

Seating is limited so please make sure you book early!

MONDAY 11 MAY
Sydney Maritime Museum
2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour
6 for 6.30pm start

COST
Members  $80
Non-members  $125

RSVP
Anita Lyons
nsw@agda.com.au
Ph 9975 4008

PLEASE NOTE: The printed calendar mistakenly lists the event date as 11 March, but the correct date is 11 May as listed here.