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Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 in Zurich, Switzerland – 8 March 1980, Zürich, 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.〔(Andrew Dickson meets Gary Hustwit, creator and director of the film Helvetica )〕 Between 1926 and 1930 Miedinger trained as a typesetter in Zürich, after which he attended evening classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule there. At age sixteen Max became an apprentice typesetter for Jacques Bollmann at a book printing office in Zürich. After four years as an apprentice, Miedinger enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts. == Career == At 26 he went to work for an advertising studio called Globe, working as a typographer. After ten years at Globe, Miedinger gained employment with Haas Type Foundry as a representative. In 1956 Miedinger became a freelance graphic designer and about a year later he collaborated with Edouard Hoffmann at Haas on the typeface Neue Haas Grotesk, which would later be called Helvetica. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Miedinger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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