tobias frerejones born tobias edgar mallory jones 1970 is an american type designer who works in new york city he was formerly a partner with designer jonathan hoefler at hoefler frerejones a type foundry in lower manhattan frerejones teaches typeface design at the yale school of art mfa program with type designer matthew carterhe is a son of robin carpenter jones and his wife the former elizabeth frere and a brother of music critic sasha frerejones he is a grandson of alexander stuart frerereeves the former chairman of the board of william heinemann ltd the british publishing house a greatgrandson of the writer edgar wallace who wrote the screenplay for the film king kong and a nephew of vice admiral sir richard tobias frere kcbafter receiving a bfa in 1992 from rhode island school of design frerejones joined font bureau inc in boston over seven years as a senior designer he created a number of the typefaces that are font bureaus 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 20 and the new york times magazinehe 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 cooperhewitt 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 and graphis inc and is included in the permanent collection of the victoria albert museum london in 2006 frerejones received the prestigious gerrit noordzij prize an award given by the royal academy of art the hague to honor innovations in type designhe married dr christine annabelle bateup in 2006