Chris Pullman on “Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist”
Filed under Conferences and Symposia
Posted by Web Team, March 13, 2006
View all posts for March 2006
Wednesday, March 29 at 6:30pm
Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
(Room E301, Main College Building)
Free to AIGA members and students, faculty and staff at the Colleges of the Fenway
$5 General public
$3 Students non-COF
Chris Pullman, VP for Design at WGBH, will give an illustrated talk on “Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist” sponsored by the Communications Department, Simmons College and AIGA/Boston.
Dan Friedman came out of strict Modernist training at Carniege Mellon, Ulm and Basle to be one of the handful of designers that popularized New Wave Typography in the 70’s. Throughout his amazing chameleon-like career as a teacher, designer and artist, Dan struggled to reconcile the formal purity and social idealism of classical early 20th Century Modernism with the realities of the Post-modern, Hip-hop, complex and dangerous world he was inhabiting in New York in the 80’s. What resulted was what he coined “Radical Modernism,” a philosophy of life and work that guided his prolific and cohesive body of work in graphic design, environments, and objects. This talk is a personal recollection of Dan that tries to give context to his unique career and explain his important contribution to the history of graphic design.
Questions? Contact Judith Aronson in the Communications Department, aronsonj@simmons.edu, 617 521 2835.
