Zurück in die Zukunft? Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005, Lebanese American University. Beirut, Lebanon. April 13–15, 2005.
Enabling typography, worldwide. AdPrint 2006. Brasov, Romania. February 2006. With Arash Shahidi.
Face it: Keys to success. BrandCamp 2006. Bucharest, Romania. November 22–23, 2006. With Arash Shahidi.
Bend it like Benton: A swan song for Bank Gothic. 3rd ICTVC (International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication), University of Macedonia. Thessaloniki, Greece. June 18–24, 2007.
Wieso gibt es so viele Druckschriften? 5 Uhr T, Academy of Visual Arts. Frankfurt, Germany. February 18, 2009.
Linotype : Les caractères de la Platinium Collection. Platinum 2009: Linotype–École Estienne, Institut National du Patrimoine. Paris, France. April 10, 2009.
Do all Hindi newspapers really use the same typeface? TypeCon 2009. Atlanta/Georgia, USA. July 14–19, 2009.
Malabar. Oder, wieso es so viele Druckschriften gibt. Typografische Gesellschaft München. Munich, Germany. April 20, 2010.
Die Leidenschaft des jungen Multi-Script-Schriftgestalters. TYPO-Berlin 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany. May 20–22, 2010.
Some of India’s most-read newspapers and their typefaces. 4th ICTVC (International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication), University of Nicosia. Nicosia, Cyprus. June 17–19, 2010.
The passion of the young, multi-script type designer. Type Talks, House of the Lords of Kunštát. Brno, Czech Republic. June 21, 2010.
Non-Latin typefaces for global clients. ATypI PreFace 2010, Dublin Institute of Technology. Dublin, Ireland. September 8–9, 2010.
Victor Hammer’s relationship with the Klingspor foundry. ATypI 2010, Dublin Castle. Dublin, Ireland. September 9–12, 2010.
Multilinguale Schriftentwicklungssysteme. Visual Systems Lectures, Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany. February 7, 2011. With Roman Wilhelm.
Webfonts: Das Web wird schöner. Webinale 2011, Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin. Berlin, Germany. June 1, 2011.
Forget the copies, go back to the source! What old books from the metal type era can still teach us. Typogravieh lebt 7, Lichthaus Kino (Bauhaus University Weimar). Weimar, Germany. June 24, 2011.
Reading Albert Kapr. ATypI 2011, Harpa Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Centre. Reykjavík, Iceland. September 15–18, 2011.
TrueType, OpenType, AllesType! Berlin InDesign User Group, Laserline Druckzentrum. Berlin, Germany. November 11, 2011. With Silke Ploog.
Alte Schriften werden durch Webfonts nicht besser. Webfontday, Typografische Gesellschaft München. Munich, Germany. November 19, 2011.
Typo Talk, Gespräche über Schrift. Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, Germany. March 21, 2012. With Dani Klauser and Jakob Runge.
Die Marx–Engels Gesamtausgabe von Albert Kapr. Schrift/Macht/Welten. Typografie und Macht. Fünfte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte e.V., Gutenberg-Museum. Mainz, Germany. May 4–5, 2012.
Albert Kapr und die Typografie der Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). Talking Heads lecture number four, MZIN. Leipzig, Germany. July 11, 2012.
Type Design 101: Creating a design based on vernacular lettering. TypeCon 2012, Type & Design Education Forum. Milwaukee/Wisconsin, USA. August 2, 2012.
25 years of German typefaces, and the revivals still with us. TypeCon 2012. Milwaukee/Wisconsin, USA. August 3–5, 2012.
25 years of German typefaces, and the revivals still with us. Guest lecturer for Paul Shaw’s class at the School of Visual Arts. New York/New York, USA. February 12, 2013.
Kick-start your type prowess. OpenTechSchool Berlin UI/UX User Group #4, Co-Up. Berlin, Germany. March 26, 2013.
Saubere Typo mit InDesign. PubKon 2013. Berlin, Germany. April 18–20, 2013.
Klassische Druckschriften und Webfonts. PubKon 2013. Berlin, Germany. April 18–20, 2013.
Fontlab vs Glyphs. Funktioniert Schriftgestaltung heute? Beispiele aus Praxis und Lehre, Bauhaus-Archiv. Berlin, Germany. July 24, 2013.
The broad-nib pen in German design education from 1900 to 1914. ATypI 2013, Hotel Krasnapolsky. Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 9–13, 2013. [Watch online]
Von Erste Hilfe bis zur Font-OP: Gute Fonts, schlechte Fonts und technische Eingriffe in InDesign und Font-Editors. Berlin InDesign User Group, Laserline Druckzentrum. Berlin, Germany. October 25, 2013.
The Full Story of the German Modernist Movement in relation to Typography. typ.dk, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler for Arkitektur, Design og Konservering. Copenhagen, Denmark. May 13, 2014.
Als Type Designer müsst du spinnen. InDesign User Group Rhein/Main, Verband Druck und Medien Hessen e.V. Frankfurt, Germany. May 19, 2014.
Lecture at the Image Knowledge Gestaltung interdisciplinary laboratory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, Germany. June 13, 2014.
A few methods for teaching letter-drawing to graphic design students. ATypI 2014, BAU Design College, Barcelona, Spain. September 17–21, 2014. [Watch online]
Lecture at the Image Knowledge Gestaltung interdisciplinary laboratory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, Germany. June 1, 2015.
Libre Devanagari fonts. Fontes et caractères dans tous leurs états, Campus Fonderie de l’Image, Bagnolet, France. December 1, 2015. With Mathieu Réguer.
East German typefaces: 25 years on. Face Forward 2015, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. December 11–12, 2015.
East German typefaces: 25 years on. Typostammtisch Zürich, Switzerland. June 3, 2016.
Lecture for students in the CAS/MAS Type Design courses at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich, Switzerland. June 4, 2016.
Is it love, is it hate? Das E-Book, das mich inspiriert! E-Book-Pecha Kucha. E-Book Festival 2016. Colonia Nova, Berlin, Germany. June 25–26, 2016.
Did photography kill punchcutting? ATypI 2016, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland. September 13–18, 2016. [Watch online]
On the Suitability of Garamond for Brecht: Albert Kapr’s Leipzig School and Book Typography. The Typophiles Luncheon at the Grolier Club, New York/New York, USA. October 26, 2016.
Tell me about Type Design. Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus, Zhuhai/Guangdong, China. November 9, 2016.
Goudy und Koch. Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany. February 1, 2017.
What proportion of a typeface’s design is the type designer responsible for? Narratives around designing and manufacturing type in Wilhelmine Germany. Kerning 2017, Faenza, Italy. June 9, 2017. [Watch online]
Schriften im Auftrag – Die HGB als Schmiede der Typoart-Schriften zwischen den 1950er und 1970er Jahren. Typotage 2018, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany. April 28, 2018. [Watch online]
Die Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei. Berlin Typostammtisch Pecha Kucha lecture evening, Moniteurs, Berlin, Germany. June 28, 2018.
How a Frenchman unknowingly became Germany’s first type designer. ATypI 2018, Arenberg Theater, Antwerp, Belgium. September 11–15, 2018. [Watch online]
New details about the origins of Akzidenz-Grotesk. Wrocław Type Forum 2018, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland. December 7–8, 2018.
Ante desinatores: Die Verbreitung einzelner serifenlosen Schriften durch das deutschsprachige Schriftgießereigewerbe im 19. Jahrhundert. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany. January 22, 2019. [Watch online]
The most characteristic hybrid typeface within nineteenth-century German type founding. Gotico-Antiqua, Proto-Roman, Hybrid: 15th century types between gothic and roman, Atelier national de recherche typographique, École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy, France. April 25–26, 2019. [Watch online]
Schriftgestaltung zu großherzoglichen Zeiten. Walbaum-Wochenende »100 Jahre Bauhaus«, Pavillon-Presse, Weimar, Germany. May 25–26, 2019.
German sans serif typefaces from the 19th century. TypeParis 2019, Le Tank, Paris, France. June 13, 2019. [Wach online]
Kurios und phantasiereich, aber selten zu sehen, die fast-vergessene Alphabete des französischen Kalligrafen Jean Midolle. 7. Dresdner Schriftenfest, Offizin Haag-Drugulin, Dresden, Germany. June 15–16, 2019.
Lecture on the history of the Berlin typefoundry H. Berthold AG. Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany. June 18, 2019.
Should every foundry have its own sans serif? Sans Everything #2, école supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens, France. October 24, 2019. [Watch online]
PhDs in Europe, Part One: Students. ATypI Working Seminar, école supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens, France. February 6–7, 2020. Panel discussion with Sahar Afshar, Petra Dočekalová, Borna Izadpanah, Sarah Kremer, and Ana Catarina Silva. [Watch online]
German designs in Archivio Typografico. Nebiolo Type Foundry, 1878–1978: New critical assessments, Castello del Valentino, Turin, Italy. September 16–17, 2021.
Weird but worthwhile: Otto Hupp’s typefaces for Genzsch & Heyse with Dan Reynolds. Herb Lubalin Lecture series [online lecture]. November 1, 2021. [Watch online]
Von wann ist die Probe? Woher kommt die Schrift? Einführende Bemerkungen. Berlins typografisches Kulturerbe, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin. June 10–11, 2022.
Vom Werk der Bücher zu Lernorten: Ehemalige Schriftgießerei-Gebäude als Bildungshäuser. Gestalten und Erhalten, Zehntes Berliner Forum für Industriekultur und Gesellschaft, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin. October 28, 2022. [Watch online]
Type for bookbinders: Germany’s other typefoundries. Type Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 1, 2023.