William Drenttel
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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. [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 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. [2]
[edit] 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)
[edit] External links
- Winterhouse Studios (formerly Jessica Helfand | William Drenttel)
- Design Observer (includes short biography of Drenttel).
- Design Observer blog
