2016 Previous and Upcoming
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March 24, 2016 — Interviewee: Books and Travel [Japanese]
Midtown Library, Tokyo Japan
Interviewed by poet Bin Sugawara
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April 14, 2016 — Panelist: Authorship in the Digital Age [English]
Library of Congress — DPLA, Washington DC
With Virginia Heffernan, Robin Sloan, and Sarah Burnes
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May 8–29, 2016 — Faculty & speaker [English]
The Banff Centre — Digital Narratives, Banff, AB
With Russell Quinn, Liza Daly, Ben Munson, and Eli Horowitz
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August 1–6, 2016 — Faculty & speaker [English]
Yale University, Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, CT
Lecturing + office hours on future of books and publishing
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I'm being excessively careful about which speaking engagements I take these days. Speaking takes up a tremendous amount of time and energy (the preparing, the flying, the presenting, the returning, the followup) but I love doing it under the right circumstances. So, in 2016, I'm continuing my "speaking hiatus" mandate as set forth in 2015. Obviously, looking below, I didn't hold myself to it strictly. Again, I'll be lecturing at the Yale Publishing Course in the summer, but aside from that, not much is on the docket. If you have a particularly fascinating event you'd like me to speak at, please get in touch. But do so knowing my default response these days is to pass. Thanks kindly in advance for understanding.
Previously
2015
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November — Speaking [English]
Proximity Designs, Yangon, Myanmar
Enduring printed things and the zany world of interactive books
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September — Speaking [English]
Paju Editor's Conference, Paju Book City, Korea
Korean essay collecton launch event; Enduring printed things
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August — Speaking [English]
Foo Camp, Sepastapol
Enduring printed things
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July — Speaking [English]
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Physical to digital and back again
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March — Speaking [Japanese]
Nippon Design Center, Tokyo
Future of books and design
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February — Speaking [Japanese]
The Public x Voyager, Tokyo
Future of books and design
2014
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December — Speaking [Japanese]
Bokuranojidai no Hon, launch event, Tokyo
Talk show with Uchinuma-san about the books of our generation
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November — Speaking [English]
GigaOm RoadMap, San Francisco
Margins: The parts of design felt, but often unnoticed
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July — closing keynote for magazines, opening keynote for books [English]
Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, Connecticut
New Stack Publishing
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April 3 — Speaking [English]
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
New Stack Publishing
2013
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December 12 — Panel discussion [Japanese]
Japanese Graphic Design Association, Midtown, Tokyo
Future publishing tools
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July — Lecturing [English]
Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, Connecticut
Subcompact publishing
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May 29 — Speaking [English]
International Digital Publishing Forum (BEA), New York City
Disruptive publishing
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May 28 — Speaking [English]
BSIG, New York City
Subcompact publishing
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Feb 20 — Speaking [Japanese]
BOOK&BEER, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
超小型出版／電子書籍, 詩人菅原敏と一緒
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Feb 11 — Speaking [English]
Webstock, New Zealand
Subcompact publishing
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February 9 — Workshop [English]
Webstock, New Zealand
Going Digital ⇄ Physical
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January 10 — Speaking [Japanese]
Apple Store, Ginza, Tokyo
超小型出版／電子書籍
2012
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October 25 — Speaking [English]
Books in Browsers, San Francisco, California
Reading! Books! Internet!
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September 28 — Speaking, workshop [English]
IF:Book, Queensland, Austrailia
Post artifact book systems
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July 24–28, 2012 — Speaking, office hours [English]
Yale Publishing Course, Yale University, New Haven
Your Future Book is Information Service
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June 21, 2012 — Speaking [English]
Editech, Milan, Italy
The Digital Physical
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January 26, 2012 — Speaking [English]
AIGA Future of Books panel, New York City
The Digital Physical
2011
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November 7th-11th, 2011 — Speaking [English]
BUILD 2011, Ireland
Creativity, books, design, Guinness
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November 2nd-3rd, 2011 — Speaking [English]
DesignThinkers 2011, Toronto
Post artifact book design
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October 27th & 28th — Speaking [English]
Books in Browsers 2011, San Francisco Internet Archive
Containers
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dConstruct 2011, Brighton, UK [English]
The myth of the book informing its future shape
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Yale Publishing Course, Yale University, New Haven, CT [English]
Spaces between digital and print
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Creative Mornings San Francisco, Typekit, San Francisco [English]
Design in crisis
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University of Baltimore (sponsored by Visual Arts Dept. & Human Centric Computing), Maryland [English]
Post artifact book design
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500 Startups, Mountain View, California [English]
Emotional Scaffolding in digital worlds
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Art Talking, Tokyo, Japan (canceled because of quake) [English/Japanese]
Future of the book
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O'Reilly Media, Tools of Change, New York City [English]
iPad app content design and UX
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School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City [English]
Post artifact book design
2010
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Bookbuilders West, San Francisco, CA [English]
The future of the book
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Web Directions South, Sydney Australia [English]
Macro view of the influence of digital on publishing
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Books in Browsers, Internet Archive, San Francisco, California [English]
Post artifact storytelling
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Adobe MAX, Los Angeles, US [English]
The future of book design
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Do Lectures, Wales, UK [English]
Shifting perspective to find inspiration in publishing and digital books
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Apple Store, Ginza, Japan — Speaker [Japanese]
Kickstarter, new ways of publishing, the digital book
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Good Design Expo 2010, Tokyo, Japan — Speaker & Panelist [Japanese]
"After the books, 2010"
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Tokyo Geijutsu University, Tokyo, Japan — Guest Lecturer [Japanese]
The future of books, looking back on books as objects
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Art Talking, Tokyo, Japan — Speaker [English]
The future of books and publishing
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Pechakucha, Tokyo, Japan — Presenter [Japanese]
The influence of technology on storytelling
2009 & earlier
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Apple Store SOHO — Design Remixed, AIGA Event, NYC — Speaker [English]
Publishing, books as objects, inspiration
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Temple University, Tokyo, Japan — Guest Lecturer [English]
Storytelling through data
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Kinokuniya, Bryant Park, NYC — Panelist [English]
Publishing, Japanese contemporary art
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Xavier University, New Orleans, US — Visiting artist, speaker [English]
Book design, publishing
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Toppan Printing, Tokyo, Japan — Speaker [Japanese]
Western design and typography
Booking
I rarely take speaking gigs these days. However, the more audacious the location, the more curious the event, the more willing I am to entertain the idea. I'd love to speak in Burma or Tibet or Bhutan, South Africa, or Morocco. If you'd like to reach out, please email: [email protected]