Save the Dates for Designers & Books Fair 2015 in NYC, October 2, 3, 4
The world’s only book fair for architecture and design books will feature over 70 publishers and book dealers and 9 programs
July 21, 2015Mark your calendars! The dates of the second presentation of the world’s only architecture and design book fair have been set for October 2, 3, and 4, 2015.
WHAT: Designers & Books Fair 2015™
WHERE: Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), John E. Reeves Great Hall and the Katie Murphy Amphitheater — located at 27th Street and 7th Avenue (northwest corner) in Manhattan.
WHEN: Friday, October 2: 6:00 PM to 900 PM
Saturday, October 3: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Sunday, October 4: 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
The exhibition hall, which will be free and open to the public, will feature top publishers of books about architecture, experience design, fashion, graphic design, industrial and product design, interior design, landscape architecture, web design, and urban design. Also exhibiting will be leading rare and out-of-print dealers specializing in design-related books and other printed matter.
Authors will be at the Fair to sign and inscribe copies of their newest books.
A full schedule of programming on October 3 and 4 will be presented in the 270-seat auditorium immediately adjacent to the exhibition hall. One of the highlights, on Sunday, October 4, will be the official launch of the reprint of Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action, published by Lars Müller, which will include a talk by the book’s editors, Reto Caduff and Steven Heller, and an exclusive opportunity to buy copies of the book in case you missed your chance to back the Kickstarter project that brought this reprint to life.
Among those you'll see at Designers & Books Fair 2015™ are:
- Actar
- Allworth
- AMMO
- Ammonite Press
- Anartist
- Aperture
- Appledore Books
- Applied Research & Design
- Artifice Books on Architecture
- Art And Theory Publishing
- Atelier Hoko
- avedition
- Bard Graduate Center
- Birkhauser
- Blurb
- Braun Publishing
- Bundesamtes Fur Kultur Bern
- Carnegie Hill Books
- CLOG
- Corraini Edizioni
- De Buitenkant
- Editions B42
- Everyedition
- Form Magazine
- Flocks
- Garden City
- David R. Godine
- The Green Box
- DOM Publishers
- Double-Barrelled Books
- eVolo
- 4478zine
- Gestalten
- Gilann Books
- Glitterati
- Graphis
- Harvard GSD Platform Series
- Idea Books
- Independent Publishers Group
- J.M. Cohen, Rare Books
- Kat Ran Press
- Kawade Shobo
- Kesselskramer
- Khatt
- Korero Books
- Lars Müller Publishers
- Laurence King Publishing
- Les Trois Ourses
- Lecturis
- Libri Publishing
- New York City Transit Authority
- Occasional Papers
- Optos Books
- ORO Editions
- Paintbox Press
- Pavilion Books Group
- Phaidon
- Pointed Leaf Press
- Prestel
- Propaganda
- Rakennustieto Publishing
- Red Dot
- Rollo Press
- Roma Publications
- Rop Van Mierlo
- Ina Saltz
- Schiffer Publishing
- Seigensha
- Strand Book Store
- Swiss Dots
- Thames & Hudson
- Trevian Books
- University of New South Wales Press
- Ursus Books
- Visual Profile Books
- Weinberg Modern
- Works Editions
- Yale School of Architecture Studio Series
For a look at our interacrive website for Designers & Books Fair 2012™, go to: http://designbookfair.com
For more information on Designers & Books Fair 2015™, please contact Steve Kroeter at 212-777-9080 or
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