Working in a similar space to April Greiman, Daniel Friedman
was also part of the whole new wave style that was started by Wolfgang
Weingart. While April Greiman showed us how colourful and interesting New Wave
design could be with interesting use of shape texture and photomontage,
Friedman will show us some other characteristics of New Wave with his own
style.
Jumping straight into
looking at some of his work, here we can see a poster done by Daniel Friedman.
The first comparison we can make between Greiman and Friedman’s work is the use
of colour. As opposed to Greimans use of the Californian colour pallet,
friedman’s work here is using a solely grayscale. I believe that he takes some
inspiration from Weingarts initial typographic experiments with this piece in a
very subtle way. In this poster we can
see the the use of type in a very unusual way. The type seems to be placed
sporadically and with different sizes and forms. This concept seems to harken
back to Weingarts typographic experiments since they both challenge the
legibility of words, or even further back to the Dadaists where they would
throw type onto their page without much care for structure or legibility. Dan
Friedman doesn't take it as far as either of those two styles as the longer you
look at the poster, we can see that the word starts to make sense as your eyes
jump from letter to letter to try form a cohesive word.
Another
thing about this poster is the interesting use of juxtaposition of two
elements. The juxtaposition is seen throughout the haphazard placement of text placed over, or in front of in some cases, the city scene in the background. So
you've got these two very different elements that don’t quite compliment each
other in a physical way yet they are placed on the same plane of existence.

As a personal summary, I feel that New Wave Design has been
one of the more interesting design styles that we have tackled as a class, this
is probably due to the use of digital media which I am personally very fond of
and also possibly due to how reminiscent these designs are to some of the
designs we see today very often.
References: Daniel Friedman-eyemagazine.com-2014 [http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-dan-friedman][last
accessed on 29/01/2015]
Uartsgd-uartsgd.com-2014 [http://www.uartsgd.com/GD40/Friedman/DanFriedman.html][last
accessed on 20/01/2014]