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词条 Max Miedinger
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  1. Career

  2. Designs

  3. References

  4. External links

{{ref improve|date=January 2013}}Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 in Zurich, Switzerland – 8 March 1980, Zurich, 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 cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achieved immediate global success.[1]

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

At age sixteen Max became an apprentice typesetter for Jacques Bollmann at a book printing office in Zurich. After four years as an apprentice, Miedinger enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts.

Career

At 26 he went to work as a typographer in the advertising department of Globus, a renowned chain of department stores[2]. After ten years at Globus, Miedinger gained employment with Haas Type Foundry as a representative. In 1954, he created his first typeface design for Haas, Pro Arte, a condensed slab serif.

In 1956 Miedinger became a freelance graphic designer. Shortly after he collaborated with Edouard Hoffmann at Haas on the typeface Neue Haas Grotesk, which would later be called Helvetica.

Designs

  • Helvetica (also known as Neue Haas Grotesk)
  • Pro Arte, a condensed slab serif. Undigitised.
  • Horizontal, a wide capitals design similar to Microgramma. Digitised as Miedinger.[3]
  • Helvetica Monospace
  • Helvetica Inserat

References

1. ^Andrew Dickson meets Gary Hustwit, creator and director of the film Helvetica
2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/171112004|title=Helvetica forever : story of a typeface|last=Malsy|first=Victor|last2=Müller|first2=Lars|date=2011|publisher=Lars Müller|others=|year=|isbn=3037781211|location=Baden, Switzerland|pages=|oclc=171112004}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Miediger|url=http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/miedinger/|website=MyFonts|publisher=Monotype/Canada Type|accessdate=9 June 2015}}

External links

  • Max Miedinger, Font Designer of Helvetica
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20130330091726/http://cis1.westerntc.edu/halee/type/the_man.html Max Miedinger, the man]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140801103934/http://cis1.westerntc.edu/halee/type/face_history.html Max Miedinger, History of the typeface]

Laufer, David Calvin Dialogues With Creative Legends, New Riders Press, San Francisco, {{ISBN|978-0321885647}}, Page 98.

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