Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger, Critic in Graphic Design

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type, an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn. In addition to several retail typefaces (including Empirica and Conductor, both designed with Tobias Frere-Jones), Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for the National Gallery of Art, Microsoft, SAS Institute, the New York City Football Club, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club, chairing the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, Nina studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. They enjoy the confluence of form and content, language, history, and technology in typeface design, and aim to never stop learning.