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Putting Modernism All over the Map: The Bauhaus and Weimar Politics

New Cultures of Work: A Syllabus
The Tower and the Plant

Typography, Automation, and the Division of Labor: A Brief History

The Power of Design as a Dream
of Autonomy

American Graphic Design in the 1990s: Deindustrialization and the Death of the Author

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Teaching

What Was Postmodernism?

History of Design II

New Cultures of Work

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Talking

Clube do Livro do Design interview

Perform—Produce interview

Putting Modernism All over the Map: The Bauhaus and Weimar Politics

For a Labor History of Typography

Eye on Design interview

WIZ* #2 w/ Silvio Lorusso

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Lecture Courses

  • History of Design II

University of Illinois Chicago (2021–24)
School of Design / School of Art and Art History

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2022–24)
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism

  • History of Modern Graphic Design

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015–22)
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism

  • Survey of Design History

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018–22)
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism

  • Design between the Wars

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2022)
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism

  • History of Design I

University of Illinois Chicago (2020)
School of Design / School of Art and Art History

  • Contemporary Art

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016)
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism

  • Graphic Design History

DePaul University (2011)
Department of Art, Media, and Design

Studios / Labs

  • Typography II: Systems

University of Illinois Chicago (2024–25)
School of Design: Graphic Design, CS + Design

  • Integrative Design Studio I

University of Illinois Chicago (2023–24)
School of Design: CS + Design, Design Studies

  • Typography I: Form

University of Illinois Chicago (2024)
School of Design: Graphic Design, CS + Design

  • Typography III: Expression

University of Illinois Chicago (2023)
School of Design: Graphic Design

  • Design Issues: After Modernism and Postmodernism

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017–23)
Department of Visual Communication Design

  • Publishing as a Creative Practice

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019, 2022)
Department of New Arts Journalism

  • Type Technology Studio

University of Illinois Chicago (2019)
School of Design: Design Studies

  • Design for Writers

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018)
Department of New Arts Journalism

Seminars

University of Illinois Chicago (2025)
School of Design: MDes in Graphic / Industrial Design

  • Research Seminar: Social Histories of Design

University of Illinois Chicago (2024)
School of Design: MDes in Graphic / Industrial Design

  • Undesigned Structures

University of Illinois Chicago (2016, 2023)
School of Design: MDes in Graphic / Industrial Design

  • Design and Labor

University of Illinois Chicago (2022)
School of Design: MDes in Graphic / Industrial Design

  • Design and the Body

University of Illinois Chicago (2021)
School of Design

  • Design Discourses

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2021)
Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism