William Drenttel – graphic designer, publisher and educator. He worked in partnership with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse, a design studio focused on publishing, online media and non-profit institutions. He designed identities for Teach For America, Poetry Foundation and Yale School of Management; websites for The New Yorker, Yale Environment 360 and Harvard Law Review; and books for University of Chicago, Princeton Architectural Press and Yale University Press.

Drenttel was the design director of Teach For All, an international network supporting educational initiatives around the world. He was also leading an initiative funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop models for design and social innovation.

Drenttel was a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He was a co-founder of Design Observer (the website of design and cultural criticism), president emeritus of AIGA, a former trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NY University. He was elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, and received the Henry Wolf Residency in Graphic Design at the American Academy in Rome.