William Drenttel
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Burma (Myanmar), 1989
William Drenttel, passport, 1989According to Wikipedia: 8888 Uprising was a national peaceful revolution demanding democracy that started on August 8, 1988, in Burma (now Myanmar), when university students started the initial …
William Drenttel|Essays
The Presidential Rash
Lyme Disease. No caption necessary.[Warning: Another occasional post on Design Observer that involves and invokes political content and satire. Do not read if you do not like your design commentary mixed with politics.]It was reported this …
William Drenttel|Essays
Project M
Project M, Buy A Meter Project, 2007.During the recent Live Earth Concerts for A Climate in Crisis, I was struck by the tension between the initiative's global aspirations and the small, personal lifestyle changes suggested during every …
William Drenttel|Essays
Project M
Project M, Buy A Meter Project, 2007.During the recent Live Earth Concerts for A Climate in Crisis, I was struck by the tension between the initiative's global aspirations and the small, personal lifestyle changes suggested during every …
William Drenttel|Slideshows
One Man's Literary Compass
When I look at my bookshelves, I see my life. Whole glimpses of previous interests are represented, from my collection of Latin American fiction to the many reminders of the years I spent living in Italy (the novels of Primo Levi and Italo …
William Drenttel|Essays
Al Gore for President
In Al Gore's just-released book, Assault on Reason, he argues that the Bush Administration has used "the language and politics of fear" to "drive the public agenda without regard to the evidence, the facts or the public interest." The key …
William Drenttel|Essays
Julie Iovine
Julie Iovine has joined The Architect's Newspaper as executive editor. (Via Unbeige.) [WD]
William Drenttel|Essays
Koolhaas and His Omnipotent Masters
Koolhaas recounts the story: he chose between working on NYC's Ground Zero and the Beijing CCTV project based on a fortune cookie he was given at a Chinese restaurant — in it, the goofy prognostication "Stunningly Omnipresent Masters …
William Drenttel|Essays
International Polar Year
International Polar Year 2007-2008, logo, designed by Ralph Percival, Mouse in the House Graphic Design, 2006.In what may turn out to be the biggest international scientific project to date, an army of thousands of scientists will spend …
William Drenttel|Slideshows
The Good Citizen's Alphabet
Cover design, Gaberbocchus Press, illustration by Franciszka Themerson, 1953.In these political times, so polarized with heated rhetoric, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across a copy of Bertrand Russell's The Good Citizen's …
William Drenttel|Slideshows
Diversity as Form: The Yale Architecture Posters
Cover detail, Forty Posters for the Yale School of Architecture, 2006.Since 1998, Design Observer's Michael Bierut has worked in close collaboration with Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, designing more than 40 …
William Drenttel|Slideshows
Voting & Religion in America: A Slideshow
"Intermingling of Church and State," Boise, Idaho, anonymous photographer, 2006.I have voted in over twenty elections, including national, state and local elections. Two times I voted by absentee ballot from Europe. I have voted in three …
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