NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED Stunt Book, 1920 tells the story of one woman's summertime adventure in California. Part of Jessica Helfand's ongoing project on American scrapbooks. CONTENTS BOOK ON EXHIBIT Contents book selected for inclusion in Gateways, an international exhibition of contemporary book covers in Portugal. SCRAPBOOKS: POP JOHNSON Jessica Helfand on the story of Francis "Pop" Johnson, whose scrapbook went along with him to Europe and onto Asia, where he charted his many wartime adventures. WINTERHOUSE WRITING AWARDS 2008 Deadline for the AIGA Winterhouse Writing Awards is 6/2. These awards include a $10,000 writing award and a $1,000 student award. This year's jury includes Jessica Helfand (chair); Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram and a founder of Design Observer; Kevin Lippert, publisher of Princeton Architectural Press; and Judith Thurman, writer and contributing editor, The New Yorker. YALE ENVIRONMENT 360 ONLINE Winterhouse-designed Yale e360, a new blog featuring the best in environmental opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate, launches on June 3. THOUGHTS ON DEMOCRACY Poster designed for the Wolfsonian's "Thoughts on Democracy" exhibition opening July 4. Inspired by Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" posters. YALE TO PUBLISH SCRAPBOOK HISTORY Yale University Press will publish Jessica Helfand's new book Scrapbooks: An American History in October 2008. SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART "Landscape," the second issue since Winterhouse's redesign of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Journal, is released. MAPLE SYRUP 2007 A long afternoon condensed into a short film produced on the occasion of bottling Winterhouse Maple Syrup vintage 2007. PORTUGAL LECTURE William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand lecture on April 9 as part of ESAD's Personal Views, "a unique series of conferences that brings together an unparalleled group of designers, writers and educators." SOCIETY OF PUBLICATION DESIGNERS RECOGNIZES WINTERHOUSE WITH GOLD MEDAL The New Yorker website redesign is awarded a Gold Medal from SPD's 43rd Annual Magazine Design Competition. (The Archives of American Art Journal is a finalist.) CONTENTS BOOK Design Observer publishes The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents. See the full book online here. Or add your own favorite tables of contents to the book's flickr group. CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT For the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's 20th anniversary, a collaboration with John Dolan results in a photographic portrait of the region, distributed to 15,000 local residents. Download PDF. SUSTAINABILITY POSTERS ADDED TO COOPER-HEWITT PERMANENT COLLECTION. Posters by Marian Bantjes, Christoph Niemann and Paula Scher, which were commissioned by Winterhouse last year for Stora Enso sustainability initiative, have been accepted into the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. WINTERHOUSE IN STEP 100 Winterhouse Maple Syrup and the Contents book are included in Step Inside Design's 2008 Step 100. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESSES Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel are the judges of this year's AAUP covers competition. WINTERHOUSE PARTNERS WITH NY TIMES The Polling Place Photo Project, founded by Winterhouse in 2006, relaunches January 4th for the 2008 elections in partnership with The New York Times and AIGA. FRED SMEIJERS FEATURES NEJM Five years after the Winterhouse/Pentagram redesign of the New England Journal of Medicine, Fred Smeijers features his NEJM-customized Quadraat on his homepage. JESSICA HELFAND ON STEFAN SAGMEISTER Jessica is quoted in the Inernational Herald Tribune on Stefan Sagmeister's new exhibition and book. TEACH FOR AMERICA Winterhouse teams with Teach for America to manage its new international initiative — Teach for All. William Drenttel will serve as design director of Teach for All during its first year. YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT William Drenttel and Michael Bierut teach the first design class at Yale School of Management beginning in January 2008. Designers Designing Design, MGT833. SLOVENIA BIENNIAL Helfand and Drenttel are on the jury for the 2007 Slovenia Design Biennial. An exhibition featuring ten years of Winterhouse work is on view at the National Gallery in Ljubljana. Interview (in Slovene, sorry) here. NEXT: AIGA DESIGN CONFERENCE 2007 In collaboration with Cavan Huang, Winterhouse designed the opening animation and speaker interstitials for the 2007 AIGA National Design Conference. See them all at our YouTube channel. WINNERS Contents book and Winterhouse maple syrup packaging are among the winners of this year's Step 100. The Stora Enso sustainability poster series and Below the Fold: are runners up. MAKE IT NEWS New poster for the Poetry Foundation and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. SCRAPBOOK PRESS Jessica Helfand on WWII soldier Francis Johnson's scrapbook in the Waterbury Republican-American RECENT PRESS Good Magazine, answering the question "How do we make our mark?"; Online: Core77's Hack-2-School feature; interview on the Ephemera blog. CARL ROLLINS: THE MOVIE Video interview with Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel on work of AIGA Medalist Carl Rollins. Directed by Eric Nevin. CIRCULAR LOGIC An interview with Jessica Helfand on the design of volvelles in the September 2007 issue of American Scientist. SVA PODCAST Lecture at School of Visual Arts. BELOW THE FOLD RECOGNIZED Below the Fold wins a bone in the 2006 AIGA Boston Bone Show. PRINT MAGAZINE Redesign of the New Yorker website featured in Print's "The 2.0 of the Town." DESIGN FOR THE FUN OF IT Movie clock for the American Institute of Graphic Arts Washington, DC chapter's fundraising event. BBC RADIO BBC Radio Five Live interviews Design Observers Jessica Helfand and Adrian Shaughnessy about the new London 2012 Olympic logo. Full show on RealPlayer here. MP3 of just the interview here. CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP Yes, it's a website. (Make sure to wait for the grainy blue background images to load.) POETRY FOUNDATION WINS WEBBY Poetryfoundation.org wins 2007 Webby for Best Association Site. CNet reports that the "feature that no doubt helped push the site to its Webby glory is the Poetry Tool, which allows users to find poems by category, occasion, title, first line or glossary term..." NEXTBOOK WEBSITE REDESIGN Redesign of the online Jewish literature and culture magazine. RECENT AWARDS Below the Fold: and Poetry Magazine are chosen as winners in the STEP 2007 Design 100. Below the Fold: is also featured in April's issue of Creative Review. THE NEW YORKER WEBSITE REDESIGN Winterhouse is pleased to announce that its redesign of The New Yorker website has launched. The new design was executed by The New Yorker and CondéNast’s MagNet team, and built with the help of Avenue A-Razorfish. WINTERHOUSE WRITING AWARDS 2007 Deadline for the AIGA Winterhouse Writing Awards is 5/31. Jury includes Allison Arieff, former editor of Dwell and designer-in-residence at IDEO; William Drenttel, chair; Melissa Harris, editor of Aperture; and Bruce Sterling, science fiction novelist and blogger at Wired. RECENT LECTURES Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel lecture at the Aperture Foundation in New York and, for the AIGA New Orleans chapter, at Tulane University. They will also give the closing keynote address at AIGA's Schools of Thoughts 3 Conference. NEW BOOK BY MICHAEL BIERUT Winterhouse Editions is pleased to announce the publication of Forty Posters for the School of Architecture by Michael Bierut. WINTERHOUSE IS GRANTED U.S. PATENT 7,124,360 Winterhouse receives a rare design patent for TatamiNet, "a method and system for computer screen layout based on the recombinant geometric modular structure and proportions of the traditional Japanese tatami mat." CITIZENS' STAMP ADVISORY COMMITTEE Jessica Helfand is appointed to the U.S. Postal Service's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, the group responsible for evaluating the subjects and designs for all U.S. postage stamps. More. DESIGNISM Jessica Helfand joins Kurt Andersen, James Victore, George Lois, Milton Glaser, Steve Heller, Brian Collins, and Tony Hendra, in the Designism panel discussion sponsored by the Art Director's Club. Podcast here. Reviews here, here and here. WILLIAM SAFIRE ON MOONBATS William Safire's "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine features custom lettering by Fiona Drenttel, (very) junior designer at Winterhouse. MAIRA KALMAN MISSPELLS POETRY Poetry Magazine's summer issue features cover art by Maira Kalman. The name of the magazine is changed for this issue. WALTER CRONKITE FILM TITLES FOR PBS Don Hewitt, Molly Ivins and David Frost are just a few of the veteran journalists who share their views of the man they call the most trusted man in America: Walter Cronkite. Catherine Tatge directs this 90-minute documentary on Cronkite's prolific life and work, with titles designed by Jessica Helfand and Cavan Huang. Produced for American Masters. SCRAPBOOKING AT THE SMITHSONIAN Jessica Helfand discusses “Historical Aesthetics and Design of Scrapbooks” at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, RECENT AWARDS Idea magazine, No. 316; Geoff Halber in Young Guns 5 2006. Additional awards from the AIGA, Art Director's Club, Type Director's Club and ID Magazine for Below the Fold. Susan Sontag's Literature is Freedom is featured in 2006 STEP 100. DESIGN MATTERS Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel are interviewed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman, broadcast on Voice America Business. Listen on iTunes. REINVENTING THE WHEEL IN PAPERBACK Jessica Helfand's Reinventing the Wheel has been released in paperback by Princeton Architectural Press. Library Journal says "this thoroughly unusual book will delight graphic, information and book designers." Vanity Fair says, "You'll never look at a Ritz cracker the same. . ." Popular Mechanics calls it "an informative, fun and, at times, funny book that will be welcomed by history and technology buffs alike." Dwell calls it "a joyous and unabashed celebration." Meanwhile, Chip Kidd simply says "it's the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel." ERROL MORRIS New poster for "Nub City," a feature film in development by Errol Morris. WINTERHOUSE WRITING AWARDS Announcing the Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing + Criticism, a new initiative of AIGA and the Winterhouse Institute. These awards include a $5,000 writing award and a $1,000 student award, and will be juried by Jessica Helfand, Kurt Andersen, Julie Lasky and Meghan O'Rourke. The deadline is June 30, 2006. Information. Poster PDF. POETRY FOUNDATION ON THE WEB Announcing the redesign of the largest website ever built about poetry. One feature is the powerful poetry search engine, Poetry Tool. YALE LAW JOURNAL REDESIGN Winterhouse redesigned the Yale Law Journal using Matthew Carter's new typeface, Yale. The redesign issue appeared in October 2005. BELOW THE FOLD: The Winterhouse Institute is pleased to announce the first issue of Below the Fold:, an occasional journal of design and visual culture. This issue features disaster needlepoints, urban bollards, security strategies, poison labels, and a caution-tape dress. WINTERHOUSE WINS BOOK AWARD Lasting Impressions, a catalog from the Grolier Club distributed by the University of Chicago, won the 2005 Connecticut Book Award for Design 20/20 John Stossel on the three most important design mistakes Americans make. MYSTERY LAUNCH Winterhouse Editions and Princeton Architectural Press co-publish a new collection of critical essays on art history by Siri Hustvedt: Mysteries of the Rectangle. VOLVELLES ON VIEW Selections from Jessica’s volvelles collection, recently donated to Yale University's Art of the Book Collection, appear in an exhibition at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. THREE OF FIFTY The End, Lasting Impressions, and Multi-Purpose are selected as winners in the 2005 AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers competition. WOOF! Susan Sontag’s Literature is Freedom wins in the 2005 AIGA BoNE Show. Also selected for recognition: Lasting Impressions. POETRY MAGAZINE REDESIGN Redesign of Poetry Magazine, the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world combines with the launch of three major new poetry websites: poetryfoundation.org poetrymagazine.org americanlifeinpoetry.orgPOETRY ONLINE THE PUPPIES HAVE ARRIVED! Ruby welcomes six healthy puppies on April 2: three girls and three boys. STUDIO 360 Jessica Helfand discusses design's influence on The Incredibles. Listen here. 2004 BEST OF BLOGS Nextbook.org wins Best Literary/Book Blog Award. THE END WINS Hans Erich Nossack's The End: Hamburg 1943, a co-publication of Winterhouse Editions and University of Chicago Press, has received a 2005 book design award from The American Association of University Presses. TWO MILLION SERVED Design Observer has passed a milestone of 2 million site visits since its launch in October 2003. MAPLE SYRUP The first season of fine maple syrup produced from Winterhouse maple trees is SOLD OUT. PARIS REVIEW ONLINE Website redesign for The Paris Review. LITERATURE IS FREEDOM A new book by Susan Sontag. MOO. Packaging design for Hautboy Hill Farm. Milk wins big at Litchfield County Fair. (No other milk entered.) DESIGN THINKERS 2004 Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel lecture in Ontario, Canada. ACCLAIM FOR NEXTBOOK Nextbook.org wins 2004 Web Award for outstanding achievement in website development. MOVEON.ORG An ad for MoveOn is published in The New York Times to coincide with the opening of the 2004 Republican Convention. Designed with Pentagram, this ad is the print extension of Errol Morris's "Switch" television campaign in which former Bush supporters explain why they're voting for Kerry in 2004. PDF here. THE GROLIER CLUB Lasting Impressions, the first detailed illustrated overview of The Grolier Club's world-renowned collections on the art and history of the book published by Winterhouse Editions. Images here. EXPORTING EXTREMISM In partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Winterhouse Editions publishes Exporting Extremism, an excerpt from PPFA President Gloria Feldt’s The War on Choice. Images here. SOCIAL RESEARCH Redesign of Social Research, the international quarterly of the social sciences from New School University. WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN? Winterhouse film defining graphic design. DESIGN INQUIRY 2004 5-day symposium and workshop examines the proposition: Truth and Message. Portland, Maine, June 13-18, 2004. More. INCITE/INSIGHT A lecture by William Drenttel, AIGA Chicago. WINTERHOUSE SELLS MOVIE RIGHTS Sidney Pollack has paid Winterhouse for the right to use The National Security Strategy as a prop on Nicole Kidman's bedside table in his upcoming feature The Interpreter, a suspenseful thriller of international intrigue set inside the political corridors of the United Nations. VOLVELLES Jessica Helfand has an exhibition at the Grolier Club, Volvelles: The Magnificent Art of Circular Charting. Reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor. Listen to her discuss it on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show. Her essay, Future Revolutions, is featured on the AIGA NY website. DESIGN OBSERVER IN THE BOSTON GLOBE DesignObserver's ampersand debate makes news in Boston. Read Jessica's post: The DNA of AND. CONTACT WINTERHOUSE desk [at] winterhouse [dot] com 860.824.5040