He has worked in the design field for over 30 years, specializing in typographical practice and acting as a consultant to designers, architects, publishers, and organizations, such as Bruce Mau Design, the Getty Research Institute, and Zone Books. Richard has given presentations to and conducted workshops for the Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario, the Design Thinkers Education Forum, as well as communication design firms in-house architectural design teams. He presented at the Typecon Typography Conference on “Typography: a matter of life and death” in 2014, looking at the potential of current typographic technologies to optimize legibility in high-stakes medical situations. In the same year, he was a panelist with Erik Spiekermann at the Design Thinkers Conference on the future of typography.