William Drenttel

Publisher, Design Observer

Biography

William Drenttel is the publisher of Design Observer, a website covering design, social innovation, urbanism and visual culture. He is the director of Winterhouse Institute, design director for Teach For All, and is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop models for design and social change. He is president emeritus of AIGA, an advisor to Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, a Fellow of NYU Institute of the Humanities, and a senior faculty Fellow at Yale School of Management.