invited talks
- Composition: Design and the Division of Labor with Rebecca Wilkinson
New Arguments Design History Lecture Series
St. Edward’s University, Austin TX
November 3, 2024
- Book Release: Autonomia e Automação: Dois Ensaios sobre Design
Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal
September 26, 2024
- Automation and Alienation in Graphic Design History
Art History Colloquium
UIC School of Art & Art History, Chicago IL
March 15, 2024
- Labor History in the Studio
The Chicago Design Archive 20th Anniversary Celebration
Morningstar, Chicago IL
November 9, 2023
- Gendered Labor and the Technical Transformation of Publishing
Triple Canopy’s Summer Publishing Intensive
Interference Archive, Brooklyn NY
June 21, 2023
Typographics Conference
Cooper Union, New York NY
June 16, 2023
Red Line Service Art Histories Series
Comfort Station, Chicago IL
November 13, 2022
- Typographical Labor in Graphic Design History
Guest Lectures in Design Cultures
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 29, 2022
Graphic Design Confabulations Series (remote)
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
April 13, 2022
Letterform Lectures (remote)
Letterform Archive, San Francisco CA
March 1, 2022
Was ist Zeitgemäß? [What is Contemporary?] Series (remote)
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany
June 15, 2021
Chicago Art Book Fair
Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago IL
November 17, 2019
- Type Tectonics: Typography, Technology, and the Transformation of Work with Michael Neuschatz
co-sponsored by UIC Design and the Chicago Design Museum
UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, Chicago IL
April 17, 2017
conferences and symposia
Writing and Reading Histories of Graphic Design Pedagogy Symposium (remote)
Parsons School of Design, New York NY
November 4, 2022
Doctor of Design Symposium: “Inclusion in Design Research” (remote)
North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh NC
August 20, 2021
- Phototypesetting and the “Life-Cycle” of Socialism
Annual Conference of the College Art Association (remote)
New York NY, February 11, 2021
- “Vernaculars of Capitalism”: Problems of Periodization in Graphic Design History
Annual Conference of the College Art Association
Chicago IL, February 15, 2020
The Legacy of Moishe Postone Conference
University of Chicago, Chicago IL
February 16, 2019
- Real Abstraction and the Limits of Theory in Marxist Critiques of Structuralism
Historical Materialism Conference: “Confronting the Violence of Capital”
Toronto ON, Canada, May 14, 2016
- The “Legibility Debates” in Graphic Design: Ambiguity and Intention
Annual Convention of the National Communication Association
Las Vegas NV, November 20, 2015
- The Linotype: Agency and Mechanization in Turn-of-the-Century Typography
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology
Albuquerque NM, October 9, 2015
seminars and workshops
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
June 17–21, 2024
Newberry Library, Chicago IL
June 14–17, 2022
- Social Theory Workshop
University of Chicago, Chicago IL
January–March 2018
- Chicago: City of Commerce and Design, 1890 –1990
Newberry Library, Chicago IL
September 2017 – November 2018
- Stone Art Theory Institute: Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
July 15–19, 2011
profiles and interviews
with Rebecca Wilkinson, Perform — Produce
2024
with Ksenya Samarskaya, AIGA Eye on Design
April 14, 2021