Tobias Frere-Jones

Recent articles about Tobias Frere-Jones

The business of type design

Issue 98, Spring 2019

Feature

The challenges of earning a living from type design, with honest, thoughtful responses from foundries worldwide

Fuse's envelope comes unstuck

Issue 16, Spring 1995

Review

The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…

Ready for its close-up

Issue 64, Summer 2007

Feature

After 50 years as a famous face, Helvetica gets to star in its own feature film

Forensic types

Issue 54, Winter 2004

Feature

Excavating the history of lettering gives this New York foundry a contemporary edge

Recent blog posts about Tobias Frere-Jones

Graphic design live #19

4 March 2025

Anette Lenz at L’Onde Théâtre; With a Bird and Typography Conference in the Netherlands; Splash!; and Outlaws in London; Women’s Rights Posters in Milwaukee

The team at Eye has curated a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting …

Font Li Beirut – harmony in discord

8 September 2020
Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography

Li Beirut is a unique font – made in a week by 160 type designers – to support victims of last month’s Beirut blast. Nadine Chahine writes for Eye about her Letters of Hope project
On Tuesday 4 August 2020, villages and towns to the north, east, and south of…