Daphne Peters

Daphne Peters is an Associate Teaching Professor and Chair of the Environments track in the School of Design. With a focus on digital and physical environments, as well as service design, she teaches students 3D form-building and interaction design in its many forms. Peters teaches across all levels of the curriculum and enjoys working with students to understand the fundamentals of design and develop graphic and strategic solutions to complex problems. 

Peters has a global perspective of graphic design, having both worked and studied in several countries. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University and worked professionally in Chicago for a number of years. She then earned a Masters of Design and Art Direction from Elisava, Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona, Spain. While in Barcelona, Daphne worked on retail, identity, environmental and web design projects before becoming a senior lead designer and strategist at UXUS in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. There she led international branding, retail and experiential graphic design projects for clients that included Procter & Gamble, ABSOLUT Vodka and Bloomingdale’s.