Peri Agate
Independent designer, educator, and researcher with a passion for publication and community.
My favourite thing about design is listening to the stories of my community and presenting them in a way that radiates passion, vulnerability, and truth. I love collaborating with other queer artists and creating beautiful pieces of queer media, supported by research, as a way to continue to spread queer joy.
Services
Editorial Design, Publication, Print, Community Research, Design Research, Brand Guidelines/Identity/Strategy, Creative Direction, Typeface Design, Design Education
Education
Master of Design, York University, 2023 - 2025
Bachelor of Design with Honours, York University, 2019 - 2023
Publications
Agate, Peri Elizabeth Cowan. “Visualizing Transgender Narratives Through Oral History and Design,” 2025.
Awards
2025
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
$15 000, The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program encourages excellence in graduate studies at publicly-assisted universities in Ontario. Since 1975, the OGS program has been providing merit-based scholarships to Ontario’s best graduate students in all disciplines of academic study.
2023
CIBC Fine Arts Graduate Student Award
$4000, This award will support graduate students in the “Culture and Entertainment” theme. To be eligible, students must be enrolled full time in an MFA, MA or PhD program within the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design and must demonstrate artistic excellence through a portfolio review. Special consideration will be given to students whose work is of an interdisciplinary, cross-departmental, or cross-Faculty nature.
York Graduate Scholarship
$6000, allocated to a student with the top application to the Master of Design program at York University.
York University Award
$1000, allocated to students who have achieved outstanding academic results, 8.0 GPA or greater, in the previous summer and fall/winter sessions.
Location
Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal.