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Designers & Books Co-Hosts a Pop-Up Design Book Fair, Book Giveaways, and Panel Discussion in New York City on May 14

As part of NYCxDESIGN 2015, New York’s month-long celebration of design, an event to showcase what's new in architecture and design book publishing.

May 11, 2015

May in New York is all about design. To celebrate—together with the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at Cooper Union—this Thursday evening, May 14, in New York, we’re hosting a special free event open to the public: a pop-up design book fair and panel discussion highlighting new developments in design book publishing.

You’ll also be able to enter three different drawings to win new and recently released architecture and design books from four prominent publishers.

How Posters Work by Ellen Lupton, 2015 (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum), one of the 12 titles to be given away to design book drawing winner on May 14

WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2015

WHERE: Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (Third Avenue at 7th Street)

This event is free, but you must RSVP for the panel discussion here: http://whats-about-to-happen.eventbrite.com

The evening begins at 5:00 PM with a pop-up architecture and design book fair featuring CLOG; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Thames & Hudson; and Yale University Press. Books are available at 25% off their retail prices.
The panel discussion goes from 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM.
A reception and the continuation of the pop-up book fair follows from 8:30 PM until 10:00 PM.

Three giveaway drawings—each for four books—will be held throughout the evening: two at the pop-up fair, at 6:30 PM and at 9:15 PM; and one in the auditorium at the conclusion of the panel discussion. You must be present to win.

The panel discussion will address “What’s About to Happen in Architecture and Design Book Publishing.”

Panelists include:

Will Balliett, President and Publisher, Thames & Hudson Inc.
Patricia Fidler, Publisher, Art and Architecture, Yale University Press
Pamela Horn, Head of Cross-Platform Publishing, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Kyle May, Editor in Chief, CLOG
Moderated by Steve Kroeter, Editor in Chief, Designers & Books

Books to be given away include:
From CLOG:

CLOG; Guggenheim by Kyle May and Julia van den Hout
CLOG: Rem by Kyle May
CLOG: World Trade Center by Kyle May and Julia van den Hout

From Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum:

Making Design by Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Susan Brown, and Kimberly Randall
Tool: Extending Our Reach by by Cara McCarty and Matilda McQuaid
How Posters Work by Ellen Lupton

From Thames & Hudson:

Open Source Architecture by Carlo Ratti with Matthew Claudel
Mountain Modern by Dominic Bradbury and Richard Powers
Material Innovation: Architecture by Andrew H. Dent and Leslie Sherr

From Yale University Press:

An Eames Anthology by Charles Eames and Ray Eames, edited by Daniel Ostroff
Hawaiian Modern by Dean Sakamoto and Karla Britton
Interaction of Color (25th Anniversary Edition) by Josef Albers

Event Sponsors: Designers & Books and The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union.

This program is presented jointly by Designers & Books and the Herb Lubalin Study Center
of Design and Typography at Cooper Union.

This event is free, but you must RSVP for the panel discussion here: http://whats-about-to-happen.eventbrite.com

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