Reporting LIVE From Designers & Books Fair 2012

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Follow me this Sat 10/28 on Twitter - I'll be live-tweeting from the Designers & Books Fair 2012 at Fashion Institute of Technology. Can't wait to meet and listen to the top designers who represent Architecture, Graphic Design, Fashion, Landscape Architecture, Product/Industrial Design, Urban Design such as Elaine Lustig Cohen (Graphic Designer and Artist), Tom Geismar (Graphic Designer, Chermayeff & Geismar), Hilary Greenbaum (Graphic Designer, Whitney Museum of American Art), Prem Krishnamurthy (Graphic Designer, Project Projects), Alice Twemlow (Design Writer, Co-Founder and Chair of D-Crit MFA Program, School of Visual Arts), and Hal Rubeinstein (Fashion Director, InStyle) 


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