William Drenttel is a partner, with Jessica Helfand, in Winterhouse, a design studio in Northwest Connecticut. Their work focuses on publishing and editorial development; new media; and cultural, educational and literary institutions. Recent clients include The Poetry Foundation, Nextbook, New England Journal of Medicine, the U.S. State Department, Norman Rockwell Museum, Yale Law School, New York University School of Journalism, University of Chicago Press and the National Design Awards. Their imprint, Winterhouse Editions, publishes design criticism and literary works by writers including Susan Sontag, Leon Wieseltier, Jessica Helfand, Paul Auster, Paul Celan and Franz Kafka, among others.

A principal of Drenttel Doyle Partners until 1995, Drenttel has been a co-editor of three of the Looking Closer anthologies of critical writings on design published by Allworth Press. He is president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU. He has lectured at two AIGA National Biennial Conferences, the Library of Congress, Walker Art Center, the Annenberg School of Public Policy, and San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. He received a B.A. in European Cultural Studies from Princeton University.

Contact Information:
william [at] winterhouse.com
www.winterhouse.com