Want fewer ads?

William Drenttel is a graphic designer, editor, 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.

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 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. [1]

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 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. [2]

This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "William Drenttel", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0