Peter Cocking is a Vancouver-based graphic designer and design teacher. His practice has been wide ranging, from annual reports to airline tickets, snack-food boxes to CD packages, corporate identity programs, newspapers, and magazines. Since 2002 he has focused on book and typographic design as the art director of D&M Publishers, the publishers of Douglas & McIntyre and Greystone Books. Peter is the recipient of more than 40 awards for his design work, and as art director has led D&M to more design awards than any other Canadian publisher. Peter 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 2009 he became the first Canadian juror at the 'Best Books in the World' competition, held annually in Leipzig, Germany. Peter also teaches at Simon Fraser University.
