ABOUT
Public speaking
conferences
20–60min. talks about my work
Creative Works West, Seattle, WA, April 2024
Design Educators Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2023
Ultrafett Typography Festival, Online, 2021
Kyoorius Designyatra, Goa, India, September 2019.
National Book Festival, Washington, DC, August 2019.
Western Magazines Conference, Calgary, AB, April 2019.
Design Festival 4GN, Bogota, Colombia, September 2017.
DesigNerds 2016, Bolzano, Italy, October 2016.
ReasonsTo 2016, Brighton, UK, September 2016.
AGIOpen, Seoul, Korea, 2016
FID 2016, San José, Costa Rica, March 2016.
FUSE Conference 2015, Chicago, IL, April 2015.
BC Libraries Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 2014.
OFFSET 2014, Dublin, Ireland, March 2014
AIGA National Conference 2013, Minneapolis, MN, October 2013
AGIOpen, London, UK, September 2013
AIGA Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, July 2013
AIGA Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, April 2013
TypoSF, San Francisco, CA, April 2013
DesignIndaba, Cape Town, South Africa, February 2013
AGI Open 2012, Hong Kong, China, September 2012
Kyoorius Designyatra, Goa, India, September 2012
AGIdeas. Melbourne, Australia, May 2012
AIGA “Pivot” Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October 2011
AGIOpen, Barcelona, Spain, October 2011
CPHDesign11, Copenhagen, Denmark
OFFF, Barcelona, Spain, June 2011
Gravity Free, San Francisco, CA, May 2011
Design Thinkers, Toronto, ON, November 2010
AGIOpen, Porto, Portugal. October 2010.
ATypI Conference, Dublin, Ireland. September 2010.
GRID Conference, Bonnier Media, Stockholm, Sweden. September 2010.
4cit Spanish Typography Conference, Valencia, Spain. June 2010.
icograda Vancouver Design Week, Vancouver, Canada. April 2010.
Amiens Type Conference, Amiens, France. April 2010.
Penny Stamps Lecture Series, Ann Arbor, MI. March 2010.
TED, Long Beach, CA. February 2010.
Alaska Design Forum, Juneau, Fairbanks & Anchorage, AK. January 2010.
AGI, Istanbul, Turkey. October 2009.
Recontres de Lure, Lurs-en-Provence, France. August 2009.
Visueltdagene (the Visual Days). Oslo, Norway. May 2009.
Justified West, Vancouver, Canada. April 2009.
DesignIndaba, Cape Town, South Africa. February 2009.
San Diego AIGA, San Diego, California, January 2009.
PechaKucha, Vancouver, Canada. June 2009.
Pop!Tech, Camden, ME. October 2008.
Trimarchi 08, Mar del Plata, Argentina. September 2008.
Semi-Permanent ’08, Auckland, New Zealand. August 2008.
TypoBerlin, Berlin, Germany. May 2008.
AIGA Next, Denver, CO. October 2007.
Think Tank, Nashville AIGA, Nashville, TN. September 2007.
Design Matters Live with Debbie Millman, San Francisco, CA. September 2007.
TypeCamp, Galliano Island, BC. (5 day workshop). August 2007.
TypeCon, Seattle, WA. August 2007.
Saskatchewan Design Week, Saskatoon, SK. September 2005.
Schools of Thoughts 2, Pasadena, CA. May 2005.
interviews
(A small selection from what’s online)
with Thomas Girard of Uniqueways, Vancouver, Canada. 2024
with Rob Alderson of It’s Nice That, Dublin, Ireland. June, 2015
with Patrick Sisson, Chicago. June, 2013
with Michael Bierut, at The Strand Bookstore, New York, NY. 2013
with Nancy Bendtsen, Design Lives, Vancouver, Canada. Sept, 2011.
with Michael Bierut at the AIGA “Pivot” conference (video hosted on LinkedIn), Phoenix, AZ. 2011
with Debbie Millman, Design Matters. November, 2010.
with John L. Walters, Eye Magazine. 2009
events
Wayzgoose, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI, November 2015.
Philadelphia Free Library; for the opening of “Framing Fraktur”, Philadelphia, PA, March 2015.
MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland; for the opening of my exhibit. June 2014.
CHiDM (Chicago Design Museum), Chicago, IL, June 2013
The Wolfsonian, Miami, FL, April 2011
OCAD, Presentation on Process, Toronto, Ontario, February 2011
AIGA/NY, New York, NY, October 2010.
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2010.
Pentagram, London, UK, October 2010.
Hearts & Minds, Creativity Magazine event, New York, NY. September 2008.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. March 2008.
Columbus Society of Communicating Arts, Columbus, OH. May 2007.
Dallas Society of Visual Communicators, Dallas, TX. March 2007.
Type Director’s Club, New York, NY. January 2007.
schools
Roger Williams University, Vermont, Oct. 2021
Elisava School of Design, Barcelona, Spain. April 2010.
Royal College of Art, London, UK, April 2010.
Art Center, Pasadena, California, February 2010; January 2009; November 2006.
Cal Polytech, San Luis Obispo, California, January 2009.
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC. October 2008.
Bowling Green State University, Toledo, OH. September 2007.
Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Keynote speaker to graduating class. May 2007.
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Presentation and demonstration. April 2007.
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC. March 2007.
CalArts, Valencia, California. Presentation and workshop with 4th year undergrads + graduate students in the design program. November 2006.
Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland, Baltimore. Presentation and three workshops for Ellen Lupton’s graduate and undergrad students. September 2006.
Central St. Martins, London, UK. May 2006.
Reading Univerisity: Typography, Reading, UK. May 2006.
Salazar Student Awards, Vancouver, BC. Keynote speaker. June 2005
Capilano College, Vancouver, BC. 2005.