Peter Bain’s work has been recognized by AIGA and the Type Directors Club; and published in Communication Arts, Eye, and Graphic Design USA. Prior to founding his own studio, he was Type Director at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in New York. He has worked across a wide range of sectors, from publishing to financial services, from sports marketing to cultural organizations, and from pharmaceuticals to retail automotive.

Bain co-curated with Paul Shaw the exhibition “Blackletter: Type and National Identity” for the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, at The Cooper Union. His letterpress book “Writing Knowledge” is in the collections of Princeton University Library and the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.