TOBIAS
LEINGRUBER

Art, Design, Internet & Society

Short Info

Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) is a communication designer and project manager at the Mozilla Firefox brand team. His personal work explores the mutual impacts of digital space and society. The web belongs to us!

Leingruber is collaborating with many artists and organisations including the Free Art & Technology Lab, Artzilla.org, Le Camping Start-Up Accelerator and the Mozilla Foundation (Firefox). He's generally involved in tech start-up and digital art scenes.

Latest projects include FB Identity Cards and Mozilla Demoparty. His work has been exhibited internationally and covered by the NY Times, Forbes, Wired, Spiegel, ARTE TV and many more.

In the Matrix

Video Portrait 2012 (by ARTE creative, english subtitles)

Education / Work / Scholarships

1984 Born in Germany / Baden-Württemberg
1995 First PC (Intel 80286) (Internet, 64k in 1997)
2001 - '05 ATMOS Med GmbH, all things online
2002 Washington High School graduate year (USA)
2003 Engineering College (Hans Thoma Schule, Technisches Gymnasium)
2003 - '07 Co-Founder of event management company.
2006 - '10 Stuttgart Merz Akademie (FH), University of Applied Arts, “New Media” Communication Design Programm (Graduate School, Intl. Master equivalent)
2008 German Student Foundation scholarship (Deutsche Studienstiftung) and DAAD scholarship
2008 NYC Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, intern
2008 NYC Rocketbooms' Know Your Meme, intern
2008 Rotterdam Piet Zwart Institute Master of Arts (MA) Networked Media Programm, student exchange
2010 Stuttgart Merz Akademie (FH) "Diplom Designer (FH)", Master equivialent, 1.0 Diploma (Top score)
2010 Paris Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), Consultant Project Manager
2010 Paris Le Camping Start-up Accelerator, Brand and communication consultant
2011 Berlin / SF Mozilla Corporation (Firefox), Project Manager, Mozilla Labs
2012 Munich / SF Mozilla Corporation (Firefox), Project Manager, Firefox Brand Team (until today)
2013 ARTE TV Creative Award for "Social ID Bureau"
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Video Portrait 2011 (by RBB/ARD TV)

Video Portrait 2008 (by Bayrischer Rundfunk)