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Toby Tinsley is an award-winning Graphic Designer and Illustrator based in London, United kingdom, with over 20 years experience in typography, branding, graphic design and illustration. Toby now runs his own design practice TinsleyRobertson, working with a renowned global client list. At the age of 16 Toby signed up for an apprenticeship in Sign-writing, and quickly discovered his passion for typography. Deciding to avoid A-Levels he won a place at The Arts University Bournemouth (formerly The Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design) and 5 years later graduated with a National Diploma and Degree in Graphic Design and Typography.

In 1997 he moved to London and worked with Toni&Guy creating branding for the Bedhead range of hair products, and produced the award-winning 1998 Toni&Guy Art-Directors book. Over the next decade Toby worked with numerous high-profile design agencies mainly working on music videos and fashion magazines in London before going freelance in 2008. It was in this year that he secured his first big contract with major publicity, to design the nose-cone art 'Galactic Girl' for Virgin Galactic. Based on Sir Richard Branson's mother, Eve Branson, Galactic Girl VMS EVE adorns the side of WhiteKnightII and SpaceShipII and won Toby his first D&AD award.

Since then, Toby has worked further with the Virgin Group, most recently alongside Virgin Voyages where he designed and created The Scarlet Lady - the first of 3 Mermaid figure-heads adorning the side of the Virgin Voyages fleet. Toby has also worked with other notable clients including a 2 year contract with world renowned car designer Professor Gordon Murray,(2013-2015) and was brought in to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (2015-2018) to work as The Head of Visual Communications overseeing all the graphic design output from the architectural practice on a global basis.