Designer, artist, educator and writer, Dan Friedman (1945-1995) was a fantastic creator who liked to experience and move between the disciplines. He defined himself as a radical modernist.
He studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, the Hochscule für Gestaltung in Ulm and the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, where he was mentored by renowned designers Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart.
Returning to the U.S. in 1969, he began teaching in the graduate design program at Yale, where he developed a new design methodology that opened the way for the expressive and postmodern movement of New Wave design.
As a graphic designer, he created posters, publications, packaging and visual identities for many corporations and organisations.
His experimental furniture has been produced by Néotù in Paris and by Arredaesse, Driade and Alchimia in Milan.

His work is in many public and private collections, including the Museum of modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Gewerbemuseum in Basel.