Peter Cocking
Bio
Peter Cocking is a designer and design educator specializing in typographic and editorial work. He is creative director at Page Two Books. Peter has received over 50 awards for his work, and has lectured throughout Canada and in the U.S., including at the national conferences of the AIGA and the AAUP, and to the Type Directors Club in New York. In 2013 he received the Ian Wallace Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2017 he received the Chick Rice Award.
Research Interests
Before joining Page Two, Peter was art director of now-defunct D&M Publishers, the publishers of Douglas & McIntyre and Greystone Books, where he led the company to more design awards than any publisher in Canadian history. His practice has been wide, from books to annual reports, snack-food boxes to CD packages, corporate identity programs, newspapers, magazines and web sites. He was the first Canadian designer to be a juror at the long-running international ‘Best Books in the World’ competition, held each year in Leipzig, Germany. His work is profiled in The Surface of Meaning, by Robert Bringhust, and in Design School Wisdom, by Brooke Johnson and Jennifer Tolo Pierce.
