William Drenttel

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participants

The Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, was held August 14-16, 2011 in Falls Village, Connecticut.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Program Description

The original program description for the Winterhouse Institute symposium at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, August 2011 on social design in education.

William Drenttel|Video

National Design Award Trophy

In October 2011, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum unveiled a new trophy for the National Design Awards. Originally designed as an asterisk in silicon carbide by Winterhouse in 2000, the new glass trophy is by Corning GlassLab.

William Drenttel|Books

Late Summer Reading

In the late summer, we share a reading list first published in Frieze magazine, April 2011.

William Drenttel|Video

William Drenttel at Design Indaba

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For Sale: The Earliest Modern Studio in America

In 1931, a young American artist designed a modern studio on a mountaintop in the Berkshires in Connecticut: it would be one of the first modern houses in America, pre-dating Frank Lloyd’s Fallingwater by five years. It …

William Drenttel|Essays

Design of Crime, Evil and Death

Buried in our Winterhouse library are numerous books with "design" in the title — things like Death by Design, Design for Dying and Design in Evil.

William Drenttel|Essays

Homework

A plastic axe, a left-over prop from a Halloween costume, tracked from a Connecticut store back to a California distributor back to a Chinese manufacturer.

William Drenttel|Essays

Introduction to Graphic Design II

William Drenttel|Miscellaneous

Best of DOG 2010

Hardly exhaustive, here are some of the highlights of essays and blog posts on the Design Observer Group during 2010.

William Drenttel|Interviews

A Conversation with Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven

An expansive interview with Daniel van der Velden, co-author of Uncorporate Identity.

William Drenttel|Essays

WikiLeaks: Design Proposals by Metahaven

The Dutch design research studio, Metahaven, took a bold, newsworthy step last weekend in Amsterdam by proposing new graphic identity options for WikiLeaks.