Max Huber 4th Graphic Designer - Jordan Cordone -

Max Huber By Jordan Cordone

Max Huber was a Swiss Graphic Designer, Born in Switzerland and lived most his life here along with other countries. Around the time of him beginning his career in graphic design, world war 2 was going on. This caused him to moved around from Switzerland to Milan and back. After the war he moved back to Italy and came in contact with these post war Italian Intelligentsia, Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, Elio Vittorini, Franco Fortini, Ettore Sottsass, Achille Castiglioni and Albe Steiner. The following years were marked by some of his most iconic and influential designs. He worked with some of these people and his career took off to another level with his art! He designed many jazz record covers, music magazines, and jazz festival posters. In 1954, he was awarded the prestigious Compasso d’oro. In 1958, he traveled to the US as a speaker to the First International Seminar on Typography (New York Art Directors Club). In 1965, the Nippon Design Committee organised an exhibition of his work at Matsuya Design Gallery in Tokyo. This trip was the beginning of the designer's close ties with Japan, that would culminate with him marrying the artist and illustrator Aoi Kono. After these amazing years of all his creative work he alternated between commercial commissions, personal visual experimentation and teaching graphic design at Scuola Umanitaria in Milan, at Scuola Politecnica di Design also in Milan and finally at CSIA. He then Died in 1992.