Max miedinger

Max Alfons Miedinger is a Swiss designer renowned for creating the world’s most recognized typeface, Helvetica. Despite its immense popularity, very little

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Max Miedinger (December 24, 1910 – March 8, 1980) was a Swiss typeface designer. He was famous for creating Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957 which was renamed Helvetica in 1960. When he was 26 years old he went to work as a typographer for an advertising studio called Globe. After ten years, Miedinger became a representative for the Type Foundry Haas (Switzerland). This is where he would make his mark on history by designing the most used typeface of the 20th century — Helvetica.

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The typeface Helvetica was an extremely popular typeface during the late 1950’s and 1960’s and is still used in many advertising avenues today. During this time, it was a thought that a…

Before i even looked into this assignment, i always viewed Helvetica as this neutral font that makes anything look good. It's not too fancy, and it doesn't look anything at all unprofessional. So i decided to look into the creator behind this marvelous typeface. While doing research on Max Miedinger and Helvetica, i have learned so much that i believe will help me in my near future of Graphic Design studies. I also learned so much about the concept of typography in different countries. The…

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Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 in Zurich, Switzerland 8 March 1980, Zrich, Switzerland) was a Swiss typeface designer. He was famous for creating the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957 that was renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cuttingedge Swiss technology, Helvetica achieved i