Lectures
2019
The World’s Greatest Detective at the Movies, Bowling Green State University’s Batman Conference

2018
RGD Ontario Webinar: To Meet, or Not to Meet, That Is the Question

2017
HOW Design Live: How AI Will Impact Tomorrow’s Design Field

2016
RGD Ontario Webinar: Speaking the In-House Language

2014
HOW Design Webinar: Agile Methodologies
RGD Ontario Webinar: Accelerating Your Side Projects

2012
RGD Ontario: Design Thinkers - Toronto
RGD Ontario Webinar: Writing for Designers
AIGA Charlotte: Writing for Designers

2011
AIGA Nebraska: Type Nerd, and Proud of It
Columbia College Chicago: Writing for Designers
AIGA Upstate NY: Writing for Designers

2010
New Contexts / New Practices: AIGA Design Educators Conference
AIGA Charlotte: To Specialize or Not Specialize
AIGA Charlotte: 20×20

2009
AIGA Charlotte: How Designers Fail - roundtable moderator
AIGA Birmingham: How Designers Fail

2008
Massaging Media 2: AIGA Design Educators Conference
AIGA San Diego: Y-Conference, A Time for Change

2007
AIGA Charlotte: Moderator: Design Unplugged

2005
Rowe Art Gallery: Culture Jamming

2003
Seattle Art Museum: What Is Visual Communication

2002
Tsinghua University, China: Exhibition + Presentation

Suggested Reading
Mastery
Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet, musings on film
Story by Robert McKee
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
News Is a Verb by Pete Hamill
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Watchmen
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Mmm…Skyscraper I Love You
tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company
Design Writing Research
There’s Nothing Funny About Design
To Hell With Culture (Routledge Classics)
The Substance of Style
The Education of a Graphic Designer
Talent Is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers
AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design
Looking Closer 5
Graphic Agitation
Type & Image
Designing Type
Thinking with Type
Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics
How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul