Tony Arefin
Abed "Tony" Arefin (April 23, 1962 – May 19, 2000), was an influential graphic designer who designed many fine-art catalogues in the 1990s. He was the chief art director of Frieze, the contemporary art magazine.
Also recorded as Arefin and Arefin
Tony Arefin
- Born
- 1962 · Karachi.
- Died
- 2000 · New York City.
- Nationality
- Pakistan
- Occupation
- designer
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Tony Arefin. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q7821776 · wikipedia · Tony Arefin
In this article
Early life in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Early life in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Arefin was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1962. He later moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh before immigrating with his parents to London.
Career
Career
Arefin moved to New York to work for Bomb magazine.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1962
Tony Arefin was born on 23 April 1962.
2000
Tony Arefin died at New York City.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Karachi.
Birth place
New York City.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Tony Arefin”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7821776: Tony Arefin
General reference · Wikidata
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Tony Arefin, revision 1344115052 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Modern design
3,254 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Tomohiro NishikadoDesigner
- Tomoko MihoDesigner
- Ton SchultenDesigner
- Toni del RenzioDesigner
- Tony BabuDesigner
- Tony BaxterDesigner
- Tony EspositoDesigner
- Tony FadellDesigner
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Tony Arefin?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.