Day in and day out I work as Head of Crossmedia Production in an advertising agency. I’m hands on creating content infrastructures and designing websites, apps and social media stuff that are driven by these infrastructures. This it what grounds me.
And it is this daily business work that helps me identifying the trends and emerging topics of our field. With that kind of real world knowledge, I’m an active participant in bringing our industry forward: I write a lot about agile publishing, digital publishing, development, and media production, not just here but also in well know magazines and journals. I’m a keynote speaker at conferences and do a lot of trainings and consulting work. Since I’m originally a print person, I was involved in developing industry guidelines for PDFX-ready. I co-authored the book “Agile Publishing”, still the 400 pages reference work on how agile processes move user experience and storytelling in the spotlight of todays multichannel world.
I’m living at the intersection of design, content, technology and marketing. How hypes can be moved into practical use is what drives me every day.
If you want to know more about me, what I do and what I don’t do, Heike Burch recorded a nice interview (in German) with me for her highly recommended Publishing Podcast: Tune in!
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Speaking engagements
Kirby in the Wild: Content First at LOWA
2021 for Stay Curious – beyond tellerrand Café
Content First from a practical standpoint
2021 for publishingNETWORK
The operating system of digitalization
2019 for Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies, Print and Media Association Bavaria (VDMB) at Symposium Hello Future, Print meets digitalization
Tools for agile teamwork
2019 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) and publishingNETWORK
Chat bots and the design of the conversational flow
2017 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) and publishingNETWORK
Siri, are you gonna do the layout?
2017 for Swiss Publishing Days
Do we find the future of the layout in the layout application?
2016 for Swiss Publishing Days
Thinking for Responsive Design
2015 for Swiss Publishing Days
Agile Publishing
2014 for Professional Association of German Communication Designers (BDG) at a tour of talks trough Germany
Publishing between print and pad
2014 for Swiss Publishing Days
Agile Publishing
2014 for PUBKON at PUBKON Conference
Story First
2014 for GC Graphic Consult at GC Executive Symposium
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Ingredients for successful responsive webdesign
2021 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Information architecture for websites
2020 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Digital typography
2020 for Gorbach Seminare at Typography in-depth course -
Responsive meets Multichannel
2020 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Design patterns of responsive webdesign
2020 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Let’s do a workshop
2019 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Untitled talk about the future of media production
2018 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Do we find the future of the layout in the layout application?
2018 for InDesign User Group Munich -
Digitalization, and what it means for markets, products and collaborations
2018 for Marketingclub Ingolstadt -
Just make it responsive
2017 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Virtual & Augmented Reality
2016 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Teamwork of Designers and Developers
2014 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) -
Agile Publishing
2014 for content marketing forum at Corporate Publishing Executive Day -
Trainer for Crossmedia, ongoing
2014 for Print and Media Association Bavaria (VDMB) at IHK Education of Media Business Administrators -
Digital anomalies - magazines between print and pad
2014 for Typographic Society Munich (TGM) and Mediacampus Frankfurt at Bookmarks Conference -
The exponential age of marketing
2014 for Brunner AG and ADVERMA Advertising & Marketing -
Agile Publishing
2014 for Print and Media Association Bavaria (VDMB), Alliance of German designers (AGD), InDesign User Group Stuttgart, InDesign User Group Munich, publishingNETWORK and Swiss Publishing Days -
Color Management Workflow from an Agency Perspective
2014 for Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies at Colour Management Symposium -
Digital Publishing with Quark App Studio
2013 for Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies at Digital Publishing Summit -
The new PDFX-ready guidelines
2011 for Association of the Swiss Printing Industry (VSD), InDesign User Group Munich, InDesign User Group Stuttgart and Swiss Publishing Week -
Dynamic Publishing
2011 for Trade Fair Druck+Form, Association of the Swiss Printing Industry (VSD), MüllerDitzen AG and Duale Hochschule Baden-Würtenberg Mannheim -
iPad publishing from QuarkXPress 8.5 and 9
2011 for SMI School for media integration, Switzerland -
Future lab Dynamic Publishing, Online Screencasts
2010 for Beyond-print.de -
Output from QuarkXPress 7, PDF/X and done?
2006 for SMI School for media integration, Switzerland -
And many more …
Interested in hiring me for a talk? Contact me!
Publications
Connecting the clouds
2019 for Publisher
The learning machines are coming
2018 for Publisher
Publishing goes gaseous
2017 for Publisher
4 Theses on the future of publishing
2016 for Publisher
Video training Agile Publishing
2015 for LinkedIn Learning
Co-Author book Agile Publishing
2013 for myself ;-)
Co-Author PDFX-ready Guidelines
2008 for PDFX-ready
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The roadmap to a consulting webshop
2019 for Publisher -
Machine Learning in media production
2018 for Deutscher Drucker -
Agile thinking for a better publishing
2013 for Publisher -
The state of tablet publishing
2011 for prokomREPORT -
Co-Author Color management in DTP applications
2008 for German Association Print & Media (BVDM) -
Various articles about prepress and editorial systems
Since 2007 for Deutscher Drucker -
Co-Author of Cleverprinting books
Since 2006 for Cleverprinting -
Various tipps and articles about PDF and color management
Since 2006 for PAGE -
And many more …
Interested in hiring me for a publication? Contact me!