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

• Helvetica
• Pro Arte
• Horizontal
• Swiss 921
• Swiss 721
• Monospace 821
• Miedinger
• Neue Haas Grotesk - Helvetica

References

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

External links

• Max Miedinger, Font Designer of Helvetica
• Max Miedinger, the man

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Name	Miedinger, Max
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Date of birth	December 24, 1910
Place of birth	Zurich
Date of death	March 8, 1980
Place of death	Zurich