Max Miedinger

Max Miedinger (December 24, 1910 in Zurich, Switzerland - March 8, 1980, Zürich, Switzerland) was a Swiss typeface designer. He was famous for creating Helvetica in 1957. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica went global at once.[1]

Between 1926 and 1930, Max was trained as a typesetter in Zürich, after which he attended evening classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich.

Later, he became a typographer for Globus department store's advertising studio in Zürich, and became a customer counselor and typeface sales representative for the Haas’sche Schriftgießerei in Münchenstein near Basle, until 1956, where he became a freelance graphic artist in Zürich.

List of Designed fonts

References

  1. ^ Andrew Dickson meets Gary Hustwit, creator and director of the film Helvetica | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts

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