[1]“Andrea Tinnes belongs to that rare breed, creating coherent, functional, innovative type families, and using them within a design practice that includes identity design, decoration, personal work, and teaching, with typefaces that range from the bizarre Haircrimes to the relatively sensible Skopex.” – Jan Middendorp[2]From 1989 to 1996 she studied Communications Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz.
The following years, 1996 to 1998, she studied Graphic Design at the California Institute of the Arts.
Subsequently, from 1999 to 2000, she was lecturer for typography at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz.
In the years 2003 to 2005 she was guest lecturer at the Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen / Norway, later from 2005 to 2008 she became Adjunct Professor.
In 2010, she was appointed a member of the Art Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance.