series of editorials on prominent designers
from a quiet life in ohio to ulm and basel in the midst of the modern design movement. from teaching in yale to working long hours in the leading design consultancy. from corporate practice to radical art.
dan friedman wasn’t consistent but was talented in everything he attempted to do and, above all, in the craft of professional morphing.
Dan Friedman. © Joe Coscia, Jr.
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born in Cleveland, Ohio
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accepted to the Ulm School of Design
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graduates from the Basel School of Design
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becomes a professor at Yale University, at the age of 25
Dan Friedman with his Yale Class, 1970–74.
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hired as a senior designer at Anspach Grossman Portugal
The Citibank Identification Standards Manual, 1975.
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starts working for Pentagram
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first solo art exhibition “Mr. D Starts Fresh” at the Fun Gallery
Wisdom 1, 1989. Collection of Loretta Michaelcheck. © Antoine Bootz.
Installation view of 'Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist' exhibition (October 1, 2014–January 9, 2015), National Design Center Gallery at AIGA, the professional association for design in NYC: www.aiga.org/dan-friedman-exhibition. Photo by Steve Haslip, 2014. © AIGA.
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appointed a professor of graphic design at the Cooper Union
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publishes his first book, “Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism”
Interior spread of Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism, Yale University Press, 1994. © Joseph Astor.
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dies of AIDS at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York
be radical. —dan friedman
Dan Friedman in his Postnuclearism installation at Red Studio Gallery, NYC 1984. © Joe Coscia, Jr.
