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Peter Cocking

Sessional Instructor

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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.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Communication Design COMD 304 26/FA

Description

This course engages a variety of concepts, methodologies, and perspectives which relate to the development of typographic systems that span across multiple platforms and a variety of content, media, formats and applications. Through exercises, projects, and readings, students will refine their typographic skills, develop comprehensive and flexible typographic systems and explore theories of communication design and typographic practice.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Communication Design COMD 404 26/FA

Description

In this course, students deepen their knowledge of typography through a variety of research methods with a particular focus on positioning typographic form and practice in relation to language, culture, communities, social context, and media. The course culminates with an extended self-directed research project in typography where students synthesize knowledge and practice while strengthening technical proficiencies in print, motion and interactive media.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.