Type Nite will be coming to New York City for the first time next Thursday, July 16 at Strand Bookstore. Established in Baltimore 11 years ago, Type Nite is a festive evening of typographic entertainment where visitors can engage face-to-face with some of today's leading graphic and typeface designers.

Read on for more details:

What could possibly go wrong? In a discussion of "Mess-Ups and Do-Overs," Tobias-Frere Jones, Peter Mendelsund, and Abbott Miller will take you inside the creative process for a look at projects that went south or turned sour. Why learn from your own mistakes when you can learn from theirs?

Tobias Frere-Jones is one of the world's leading typeface designers. Book designer Peter Mendelsund is the author of What We See When We Read and Cover, a monograph about his design process. Abbott Miller is a partner at Pentagram and author of Abbott Miller: Design and Content, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

The conversation will be moderated by Ellen Lupton, Cooper Hewitt's senior curator of contemporary design and author of two new books, Graphic Design: The New Basics, 2nd Edition and How Posters Work, both released this summer. A perfect evening for design professionals and students alike!

Attendees will have the opportunity to win a free book by entering a raffle! 

For those of you at home:

• Watch the live-stream on the Strand’s YouTube channel at 7pm EST
• Live tweet with #typenite
• Use the hashtag to ask a panelist a question. If your question gets chosen, you will win a free book!
• From the Strand’s website, order a copy of Graphic Design: The New Basics, 2nd  Edition by 4:00 on July 16th if you would like it signed by Ellen Lupton. Leave inscription requests in the notes field.

This event is sponsored by Princeton Architectural Press, the Type Directors Club, and Designers & Books. Learn more about Type Nite NYC here.

ARCHINECT BOOK GIVEAWAY:

For anyone looking to brush up on their graphic design skills, Archinect is giving away five copies of the newly published Graphic Design: The New Basics, 2nd edition, co-authored by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips (principal of J. Cole Phillips Design).

The expanded second edition features 64 new pages including explanations on key concepts on visual language from Lupton and Phillips. For extra guidance, students and professionals give demonstrations and concise commentary on the formal elements of 2-D design. (Images of page-spreads below.)

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY: Fill out this survey by the deadline on July 14, 2015, end of day. Five winners will be chosen. Good luck!