William Drenttel

William Drenttel|Essays

I (still) Love Amsterdam

Dutch design events in December 2010, including the Prince Claus Awards and graphic design conferences.

William Drenttel|Essays

Imagining Menorahs as Peacocks?

That designers want to "re-imagine" the menorah every year is worthy of discussion and critique. That they want to make them out of recycled bike chains needs to be challenged someplace, by someone.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final Report

The final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, October 17–19, 2010, where 13 educators from a variety of design and business programs discussed the challenges and objectives of social-change initiatives within their …

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participant Case Studies

Participants of Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, October 17-19, 2010, each contributed case studies of a class, project or program that bridges design and social innovation.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participants

This outlines the participants of the Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, which was held October 17-19 2011, in Falls Village CT.

William Drenttel|Essays

An Introduction to Graphic Design

Graphic Design 101 by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand.

William Drenttel|Miscellaneous

AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing: 2010 Recipients

AIGA and Winterhouse Institute announce the two writers selected to receive the 2010 AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism — including a $10,000 prize and a $1,000 student award.

William Drenttel|Essays

Arial vs. Helvetica

A great visualization showing the differences between Helvetica and Arial.

William Drenttel|Video

William Drenttel on Design and Social Innovation

A video of a talk on design and social innovation at the Feast Conference given by William Drenttel on October 1, 2009.

William Drenttel|Slideshows

Dogs and Their Designers

Maude Beatrix Drenttel, age 3, VizslaI love our dogs, Ruby Eleanor and Maude Beatrix. Ruby is the mother, age 6, and Maude is one of her six puppies. (Jessica delivered them all.) Each of our children is linked at the soul to one of these …

William Drenttel|Case Studies

Case Study Use: Teaching History and Notes for Educators

A record of where case studies in Design and Social Enterprise series from Yale School of Management have been used or taught.

William Drenttel|Report

Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”

In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a …