Dan Fried­man was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945. From the Mid­west, Fried­man went to col­lege at Carnegie Mel­lon, where he received his BFA in Graphic Design. Fol­low­ing his under­grad­u­ate career, Fried­man jour­neyed to Basel, where he stud­ied ortho­dox mod­ernist graphic design at the Schule für Gestal­tung. He returned to the United States in 1969, mark­ing the begin­ning of his career as a graphic design instruc­tor for major cor­po­ra­tions and insti­tu­tions. From 1970-1973, Fried­man taught Graphic Design at Yale, in addi­tion to hold­ing teach­ing posts at the State Uni­ver­sity Col­lege at Purchase, N.Y., and at Cooper Union. He also held posi­tions at Anspach Gross­man Por­tu­gal, where he was a senior designer from 1975-1977. While work­ing for Pen­ta­gram (dur­ing the years of 1979 to 1984), he designed posters, let­ter­heads and logos for clients includ­ing Citibank and Willi­wear. In 1982, he designed a book for his dear friend Keith Har­ing and worked for the Neotu Gallery.  In 1994, he pub­lished “Rad­i­cal Mod­ernism,” a lav­ishly illus­trated text which med­i­tated on the con­straints of post-moder­nity. He died on July 7, 1995 at St. Luke’s Roo­sevelt Hos­pi­tal Cen­ter in Manhattan. He was 49 years old.

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