Previously

• 2022

• Jan 19 — speaker [English]

  Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Japan (Remote)

  Memberships and Creativity

• 2020

• Feb 6 — speaker [English]

  Config — Figma User Conference, San Francisco, CA

  Two Books and a Long Walk

• 2019

• October 1 — speaker / organizer [English]

  Focus Yoshino, Yoshino, Japan

  Side projects

• August 8 — speaker [English]

  Postlight, New York, NY

  Books and Long Walks

• July 28 — speaker [English]

  Yale University, New Haven, CT

  The New Book

• 2018

• November 29 — speaker [English]

  International House, Azabu Jyuban, Tokyo, Japan

  The Design of Walking in Japan

• September, 10 — speaker [English]

  Smashing Conference, Freiberg, Germany

  Seeing at Scale: The Design of Books Meditation and Walking

• September 4-7 — Co-organizer & speaker [English]

  Focus Takigahara, Takigahara, Ishikawa, Japan

  Retreat organizer and opening speaker; on the power of purpose and side projects

• July 30 – August 4 — Faculty & speaker [English]

  Yale University, Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, CT

  Lecturing + office hours on future of books and publishing

• 2017

• October 27 — Co-organizer & speaker [English]

  Focus Hida, Hida Furukawa, Gifu

  Retreat organizer and opening speaker; on the power of purpose and side projects

• July 30 – August 4, 2017 — Faculty & speaker [English]

  Yale University, Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, CT

  Lecturing + office hours on future of books and publishing

• May 20, 2017 — Speaker [English]

  Design Thinkers, Vancouver, CA

  Books and book design

• 2016

• Dec 3 — Reading [English]

  Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia

  With Mary Kay Zuraleff

• October 6 — Speaker: Digital Tools, Artifacts, and Permission [Japanese]

  Google SPAN Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Advisor and speaker

• August 1–6 — Faculty & speaker [English]

  Yale University, Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, CT

  Lecturing + office hours on future of books and publishing

• May 8–29 — Faculty & speaker [English]

  The Banff Centre — Digital Narratives, Banff, AB

  With Russell Quinn, Liza Daly, Ben Munson, and Eli Horowitz

• April 14 — Panelist: Authorship in the Digital Age [English]

  Library of Congress — DPLA, Washington DC

  With Virginia Heffernan, Robin Sloan, and Sarah Burnes

• March 24 — Interviewee: Books and Travel [Japanese]

  Midtown Library, Tokyo Japan

  Interviewed by poet Bin Sugawara

• 2015

• November — Speaking [English]

  Proximity Designs, Yangon, Myanmar

  Enduring printed things and the zany world of interactive books

• September — Speaking [English]

  Paju Editor's Conference, Paju Book City, Korea

  Korean essay collecton launch event; Enduring printed things

• August — Speaking [English]

  Foo Camp, Sepastapol

  Enduring printed things

• July — Speaking [English]

  Yale University, New Haven, CT

  Physical to digital and back again

• March — Speaking [Japanese]

  Nippon Design Center, Tokyo

  Future of books and design

• February — Speaking [Japanese]

  The Public x Voyager, Tokyo

  Future of books and design

• 2014

• December — Speaking [Japanese]

  Bokuranojidai no Hon, launch event, Tokyo

  Talk show with Uchinuma-san about the books of our generation

• November — Speaking [English]

  GigaOm RoadMap, San Francisco

  Margins: The parts of design felt, but often unnoticed

• July — closing keynote for magazines, opening keynote for books [English]

  Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, Connecticut

  New Stack Publishing

• April 3 — Speaking [English]

  Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA

  New Stack Publishing

• 2013

• December 12 — Panel discussion [Japanese]

  Japanese Graphic Design Association, Midtown, Tokyo

  Future publishing tools

• July — Lecturing [English]

  Yale Publishing Course, New Haven, Connecticut

  Subcompact publishing

• May 29 — Speaking [English]

  International Digital Publishing Forum (BEA), New York City

  Disruptive publishing

• May 28 — Speaking [English]

  BSIG, New York City

  Subcompact publishing

• 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

• Feb 11 — Speaking [English]

  Webstock, New Zealand

  Subcompact publishing

• February 9 — Workshop [English]

  Webstock, New Zealand

  Going Digital ⇄ Physical

• January 10 — Speaking [Japanese]

  Apple Store, Ginza, Tokyo

  超小型出版／電子書籍

• 2012

• October 25 — Speaking [English]

  Books in Browsers, San Francisco, California

  Reading! Books! Internet!

• September 28 — Speaking, workshop [English]

  IF:Book, Queensland, Austrailia

  Post artifact book systems

• July 24–28, 2012 — Speaking, office hours [English]

  Yale Publishing Course, Yale University, New Haven

  Your Future Book is Information Service

• June 21, 2012 — Speaking [English]

  Editech, Milan, Italy

  The Digital Physical

• January 26, 2012 — Speaking [English]

  AIGA Future of Books panel, New York City

  The Digital Physical

• 2011

• November 7th-11th, 2011 — Speaking [English]

  BUILD 2011, Ireland

  Creativity, books, design, Guinness

• November 2nd-3rd, 2011 — Speaking [English]

  DesignThinkers 2011, Toronto

  Post artifact book design

• October 27th & 28th — Speaking [English]

  Books in Browsers 2011, San Francisco Internet Archive

  Containers

• dConstruct 2011, Brighton, UK [English]

  The myth of the book informing its future shape

• Yale Publishing Course, Yale University, New Haven, CT [English]

  Spaces between digital and print

• Creative Mornings San Francisco, Typekit, San Francisco [English]

  Design in crisis

• University of Baltimore (sponsored by Visual Arts Dept. & Human Centric Computing), Maryland [English]

  Post artifact book design

• 500 Startups, Mountain View, California [English]

  Emotional Scaffolding in digital worlds

• Art Talking, Tokyo, Japan (canceled because of quake) [English/Japanese]

  Future of the book

• O'Reilly Media, Tools of Change, New York City [English]

  iPad app content design and UX

• School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City [English]

  Post artifact book design

• 2010

• Bookbuilders West, San Francisco, CA [English]

  The future of the book

• Web Directions South, Sydney Australia [English]

  Macro view of the influence of digital on publishing

• Books in Browsers, Internet Archive, San Francisco, California [English]

  Post artifact storytelling

• Adobe MAX, Los Angeles, US [English]

  The future of book design

• Do Lectures, Wales, UK [English]

  Shifting perspective to find inspiration in publishing and digital books

• Apple Store, Ginza, Japan — Speaker [Japanese]

  Kickstarter, new ways of publishing, the digital book

• Good Design Expo 2010, Tokyo, Japan — Speaker & Panelist [Japanese]

  "After the books, 2010"

• Tokyo Geijutsu University, Tokyo, Japan — Guest Lecturer [Japanese]

  The future of books, looking back on books as objects

• Art Talking, Tokyo, Japan — Speaker [English]

  The future of books and publishing

• Pechakucha, Tokyo, Japan — Presenter [Japanese]

  The influence of technology on storytelling

• 2009 & earlier

• Apple Store SOHO — Design Remixed, AIGA Event, NYC — Speaker [English]

  Publishing, books as objects, inspiration

• Temple University, Tokyo, Japan — Guest Lecturer [English]

  Storytelling through data

• Kinokuniya, Bryant Park, NYC — Panelist [English]

  Publishing, Japanese contemporary art

• Xavier University, New Orleans, US — Visiting artist, speaker [English]

  Book design, publishing

• Toppan Printing, Tokyo, Japan — Speaker [Japanese]

  Western design and typography