William Drenttel

William Drenttel is a graphic designer, editor and currently a partner in Winterhouse Studios and president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Drenttel received a BA in European Cultural Studies from Princeton University.

Drenttel has enjoyed many major commissions and positions in the graphic design community.

From 1985 to 1997 Drenttel was a partner in the New York design firm Drenttel Doyle Partners. Other partners included Stephen Doyle and Thomas Kluepfel. Drenttel Doyle Partners worked on many prominent design projects including: the editorial design of "Spy" and "The New Republic"; identity design and exhibition design for Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; exhibition design for the World Financial Center; and identity design and publication design for Princeton University. [http://winterhouse.com]

Drenttel is the partner of Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse Studios, Winterhouse Editions and Winterhouse Institute located in Falls Village, Connecticut.

In 2002, Drenttel co-founded Design Observer, a blog of design and cultural criticism: today, the site is the largest design publication in the world with over a million site visits a month. He is also co-editor of Below the Fold:, a new journal of visual culture published by Winterhouse, and the founder of the Polling Place Photo Project, an online election documentation project. In 2006, Drenttel co-founded the Winterhouse Writing Awards: this $5000 prize for innovation in design writing seeks to develop new writers interested in design and cultural criticism. In 2008, Drenttel will be a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management.

Drenttel is also the co-editor of three "Looking Closer" graphic design anthologies. He is also a founding writer of the Design Observer blog with Rick Poynor, Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand. [http://www.designobserver.com/]

Books

* "Paul Auster: A Comprehensive Bibliographic Checklist of Published Work 1968-1994", Winterhouse Editions, 1994. (ISBN 978-1884381010)
* "Graphic Design: New York 2: The Work of Thirty-Six Firms from the City That Put Graphic Design on the Map", with Michael Bierut and D. K. Holland.
* "Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design", with Michael Bierut, Steven Heller, D. K. HollandAllworth Press. (ISBN 978-1880559154)
* "Forty Posters for the Yale School of Architecture" by Michael Bierut, Winterhouse Editions, 2007 (ISBN 1884381189)

External links

* [http://winterhouse.com Winterhouse Studios] (formerly Jessica Helfand | William Drenttel)
* [http://www.designobserver.com Design Observer] (includes short biography of Drenttel).
* [http://www.designobserver.com Design Observer blog]

ee also

* First Things First 2000 manifesto
* "Emigre" , 1999. [http://www.emigre.com/EMag.php?issue=51]