max miedinger presentation
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presentation for Type Fundamentals moduleTRANSCRIPT
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MAX MIE
DINGER
S WI S
S TY P E FA
CE D
E S I GN
E R
Type Fundamentals Deborah Bowden
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WHO IS… MAX MIEDINGER?
• Born
in Zurich, Switzerland
on the 24th of December 1910
• Died
8 March 1980
in Zurich, Switzerland
• Max Miedinger was most famous for creating…
HELVETICAoriginally known as Neue Haas Grotesk
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WHERE IT ALL BEGAN…
Education
1926 – 1930 at 16 years old
He trained as an apprentice typesetter in the book
printing office of Jacques Bollmann in Zurich.
1930
Entered the School of Arts and Crafts, Abendkurse in
Zurich.
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AND THE HARD WORK BEGINS
1936 at the age of 26
He became a Typographer in the advertising studio of the
Globus department store chain.
1946 He became a representative for the haas’sche
schriflgießerei
(Haas Type Foundry) in Basel, Switzerland.
1956 He became a freelance Graphic Artist in Zurich
1957 Miedinger made his mark in graphic arts history
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1957 NEUE HAAS GROTESK WAS BORN
Later renamed HELVETICA
• Edouard Hoffman, director of the Haas Type Foundry, commissioned Miedinger to develop a new sans-serif typeface.
• Miedinger revised a typeface called Akzidenze Grotesk – a san serif font designed by H. Berthold in 1896.
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HELVETICA V AKZIDENZ GROTESK
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HELVETICA V AKZIDENZ GROTESK UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
e, c & gHave parallel finals
The top of the bowlcurves to meet the stem
n, m & hThe shoulder narrows
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HISTORY OF THIS SAN SERIF TYPEACE
• 1800s An anonymous designer makes a type without serifs and it is called “grotesk.”
• Grotesk was copied and designers in the late 19th century began using these big, bold typefaces for display type.
• Akzidenz Grotesk (1896), One of the first with lowercase letters, and was more delicate and readable. With four different weights.
• 1956 Edouard Hoffmann (Haas Type Foundry), decided that the more natural typeface, Akzidenz Grotesk, needed to be reworked for a new century.
Max Miedinger drew this new typeface and it was released in 1957 as Neue Haas Grotesk.
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HELVETICA
The name was
changed in 1961 to
Helvetica
Helvetica is a very legible Typeface, which is rounded, with a large x-height,short ascenders and descender.
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HELVETICA FONT FAMILY
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HELVETICA WENT GLOBAL
Design should be an objective communicationof ideas and not an artistic expression
It was marketed to reflect cutting edge Swiss technology.
Companies and designers all over the world viewed Helvetica
as the font that reflected the industrial times.
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HELVETICA IS…
• Neutral
• Clean
• Legible
• Versatile
• It’s open to interpretation in any context
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IT BECAME COMMONLY USED IN
• Corporate Logos
• Advertising
• Public Signs
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CORPORATE LOGOS
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ADVERTISING & PRINT
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PUBLIC SIGNS
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HELVETICA WAS A CRUCIAL
PROGRESSION
IN TYPEFACE DESIGN
PRESENTING AN IDEALISED
EXPRESSION OF MODERNISM
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FONTS DESIGNED BY MAX MIEDINGER
• Helvetica (Neue Haas Grotesk)
• Pro Arte
• Horisontal
• Swiss 921
• Swiss 721
• Monospace 821
• Miedinger
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YOUTUBE VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoX0pEwSCw&ob=av3e
Title: Helvetica Trailer
… what did Helvetica tell you today?