September 2016
Book Signing: Project Runway’s Nick Verreos
Fashion designer, commentator, mentor, and former Project Runway contestant Nick Verreos will present his new book A Passion for Fashion: Achieving Your Fashion Dreams One Thread at a Time . The book offers advice to young fashionistas on how to make it in the fashion business and make the most of their time in design school.
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Book Signing: Sketch and Go: 5-Minute Fashion Illustration, With Emily Brickel Edelson
FIT Alumna Emily Brickel Edelson will discuss, demonstrate, and sign copies of her new book, Sketch and Go: 5-Minute Fashion Illustration, by Race Point Publishing. Part technique, part sketchbook, Sketch and Go shares tips and tricks for sketching fashion illustrations quickly. Readers first learn basic fashion illustration skills and practical techniques for inspired "live fashion sketching." Then they sketch their own collections on the 500 preprinted model templates. Featuring a variety of different poses, these templates allow artists to get down to business and sketch designs right away.…
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Book Signing: Suck Less, With Willam Belli
Drag queen comedian, actor, and recording artist Willam Belli will sign copies of his debut book, Suck Less: Where There's a Willam, There's a Way, a collection of essays and tutorials that offer both practical and humorous makeup, travel, dating, and other advice.
Find out more »Book Launch Party: Brand Management Strategies, With William D’Arienzo
William D'Arienzo, facilitator of the Brand Management Experience certificate program in the Center for Continuing and Professional Studies, will celebrate the release of his new book, Brand Management Strategies: Luxury and Mass Markets, published by Bloomsbury. From the Bloomsbury press release: As global economies grow and the cost of doing business increases, the brand is the pre-eminent business asset needed for success in global business development. Brand Management Strategies: Luxury and Mass Markets presents the brand experience on a market…
Find out more »October 2017
Book Signing: Vanessa Grigoriadis
National Magazine Award winner Vanessa Grigoriadis will be at Barnes & Noble at FIT to present and sign copies of her new book, Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus. The book's description via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many "woke" male…
Find out more »May 2019
Nicole Sealey: Poetry and Power: A Reading and Discussion
Born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Honored with numerous awards, prizes, and fellowships, she holds and MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. Recently named a…
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Book Signing: “Carnegie Hill” with Jonathan Vatner
Jonathan Vatner, staff writer of FIT's Hue magazine, will read from his debut novel, Carnegie Hill (Thomas Dunne Books, 2019), a comedy of manners set in an Upper East Side co-op apartment building that People magazine called "entertaining and profound." He will talk with Patrick Knisley, dean of the School of Liberal Arts, about the process of writing it and getting it published, and he will take questions and sign books. This event is free and open to the public.
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Book Signing: Amy Lemmon, “The Miracles”
Amy Lemmon, chair, English and Communication Studies, reads from and signs copies of her latest poetry collection, The Miracles (C&R Press, 2019), a breathtakingly crafted book that embodies the human capacity for hope and redemption after calamity. A Q&A will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »Book Reading and Signing: Boom! Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die
Disruption and innovation are driving unprecedented changes to the business landscape where no industry is left untouched. Join Lisa Hendrickson, instructor in the Sustainable Design Entrepreneurs program at FIT and co-author of Boom! Deciphering Innovation, and Jason Burnham, founder of Culture Design, to discuss the next phase of business reinvention through sustainability, technology, and culture change. Olivia Greco, the art director of Boom! Deciphering Innovation, will share the design process of this award-winning book. This event is free and open to the…
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