Designers & Books Fair 2012 and 50 Books/50 Covers News

Designers & Books Fair 2012 News

The inaugural Designers & Books Fair, launching the last weekend of October in New York City—October 26–28—is growing bigger. We continue to add new programs and new exhibitors and hope you’ll plan to join us for one or more panel discussions and to take advantage of the chance to mingle with a vibrant international design community in the Exhibition Hall.

Visit Designers & Books Fair 2012 for newest details, program descriptions and schedule, list of exhibitors, and to purchase tickets. Take advantage of our 3-Program Ticket Package, which offers you a 20% discount when you purchase three program tickets at once.

Fair Exhibitors Include Design Publishers, Booksellers, Rare Book Dealers, and Book Artisans

The Fair will feature 35-plus exhibitors from around the world all focused on design, including publishers, booksellers, rare and out-of-print book dealers, and book artisans. These range from major, long-established design book publishers and booksellers such as Abbeville, Abrams, Princeton Architectural Press,The MIT Press, The Monacelli Press Lars Müller, Phaidon, Rizzoli, and Yale University Press to cutting-edge publishing houses such as Black Dog Publishing and Strelka Press. Antiquarian dealers include Weinberg Modern Books, Alan Rosenberg’s, and Optos Books. You'll also find traditional bookbinding demonstrations by Larry Vogel and the opportunity to learn about the art of calligraphy from the Society of Scribes, to name just a few examples of what will go on at the Fair.

Many publishers will be offering special Fair discounts of up to 40%. In addition, in celebration of the Fair, Abrams is offering a special 30% discount on select titles for the entire month of October.

Purchase your ticket to the Exhibition Hall: $10, or free with purchase of any program ticket.

New Programs Announced for Designers & Books Fair 2012

A variety of programs—presentations, panel discussions and interviews—will feature leading figures in architecture, and fashion, graphic, interior, and product design. Among the many highlights:

     ·  NEWLY ADDED - Buildings and Books: Four Architecture Critics in Conversation: Justin McGuirk (The Guardian), Christopher Hawthorne (Los Angeles Times), James Russell (Bloomberg News), Michael Sorkin (formerly Village Voice)

     ·  NEWLY ADDED - Karim Rashid in Conversation with Debbie Millman

     ·  NEWLY ADDED - Learning from Experience: Four Graphic Designers in Conversation: Elaine Lustig Cohen, Tom Geismar, Hilary Greenbaum, Prem Krishnamurthy

     ·  NEWLY ADDED - Cover Stories: A Conversation about Book Cover Design: Irma Boom, Jennifer Daniel, John Gall, Peter Mendelsund; moderated by Michael Silverberg of Print magazine

     ·  NEWLY ADDED - From Type to Tablet: Publishers and Editors Talk about Directions in Design Book Publishing: Justin McGuirk, Lars Müller, Dung Ngo, Julius Wiedemann; moderated by Julie Iovine of The Wall Street Journal

     ·  Book Design at Pentagram, with Michael Bierut, Paula Scher, Abbott Miller, Emily Oberman, Eddie Opara, and DJ Stout. Program sponsored by Design Observer

     ·  Chinese Design Culture Now, with Eric Chan (ECCO Design), Beijing Olympics design director Min Wang, and others

     ·  How to Get Published in the World of Design Books: Bring your ideas and questions for three major design book publishers and three veteran design  book authors!

     ·  Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien in Conversation with architecture critic Paul Goldberger

     ·  Steven Heller and Louise Fili in Conversation with Debbie Millman

     ·  InStyle Fashion Director Hal Rubenstein in Conversation with FIT Museum Director Valerie Steele

     ·  Product and interior designer Todd Oldham in conversation with New York magazine Design Editor Wendy Goodman

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2011 “50 Books/50 Covers” Competition

Designers & Books has partnered with AIGA and Design Observer to continue the “50 Books/50 Covers” competition honoring excellence in book design. Among this year’s honorees are an anthology of works by new American writers adorned with only a pencil; a service and prayer book for the Church of England, in which typography takes the place of expected graphics; Stefan G. Bucher’s richly illustrated DIY guide for creatives; a book called Bed for which the title’s letters are mattresses; a reimagining of Jack Kerouac’s collection of works; and a bold interpretation of David Foster Wallace’s posthumously published unfinished novel. See all 50 book selections and 50 cover selections online.

Our Newsletter

See who's coming up (and who you missed last month) on Designers & Books. New designers whose book lists we'll be featuring include architect Nathalie de Vries of MVRDV and Milan-based product designer Stefano Giovannoni, and many others. Plus, we've added new short lists, including 20 Books about New York and 15 Books by and about Le Corbusier (celebrating of Le Corbusier’s birthday October 6) chosen by Designers & Books contributors.

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