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.
Contact via email: heSPAMllo@toREMOVEbi-x.com or twitter.com/tbx Twitter | Tumblr | Flickr | Facebook | Google+ | Vimeo | Foursquare | Github | F.A.T. Blog | Mozilla
| 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" | |