Peter Cocking is a Vancouver-based graphic designer and design teacher. He has designed annual reports and airline tickets, snack-food boxes and CD packages, corporate identity programs, newspapers, and a national satirical magazine. Since 2002 he has been the art director of D&M Publishers, the publishers of Douglas & McIntyre and Greystone Books. He has won numerous awards for his work; indeed, during his tenure, D&M has won far 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 on the panel of the prestigious 'Best Books in the World' competition, held annually in Leipzig, Germany. Peter also teaches at Simon Fraser University, and in the Advanced Typography Program at Langara College.
