Dan Friedman was a graphic and furniture designer, artist, writer, and educator known for challenging mainstream design through radical, experimental work. After studying at Carnegie Mellon, he trained under Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart in Europe, mastering Swiss-style typography. In the 1970s, he applied this to corporate work for clients like Citibank but soon began subverting these norms with bold colour, layout, and type, producing work with aesthetics of New Wave and punk design.
Explore related designers including Wolfgang Weingart and April Greiman. See also New Wave and 1970s graphic design history.
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A 1939 article on American designer, Walter Frank Bomar, published in The Inland Printer, Vol 104, No. 03, 1939.
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Beyond his books, Dick Bruna's vivid colour and simplified forms found their way onto posters, packaging, murals and stamps, many of which feature in my growing collection.
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An article on Valentin Zietara , originally in German, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1930, written by H K Frenzel translated by E. T. Scheffauer
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