Peter Rea

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Peter Rea (born December 19, 1938 in Dublin , Ireland , † October 3, 2014 in Kent , England ) was an Irish designer . He was an honorary professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and lived in London and Bremen .

Life

Peter Rea studied fine arts , design and typography at the Royal College of Art in London. He worked as a director at various theaters and played drums in jazz and rock bands. In the 1960s he created happenings , "son-et-lumiere" productions and organized several moving image courses for graduate students. From 1976 he ran his own studio in London and was in charge of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Photographers Gallery London .

Peter Rea's design work included corporate identity, sign systems, packaging, exhibitions and magazine design. He was the curator and co-art director of the “Icons on Ikono” project by Zanders . He has shown his work in solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and other galleries in London.

Until 1993 he was assistant professor at the Philadelphia College of Art , then director of the master classes “Advanced Typographic Design” at the College of Printing, University of the Arts London , director of the Leicester School of Graphic Design and the Ravensbourne School of Graphic Design . In addition, in 1993 Rea took on a visiting professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and from 1998 to 2000 a professorship at Notre Dame University - Louaize in Lebanon. There he restructured the art and design study programs after 20 years of war, cultural life and education had almost come to a standstill. Peter Rea was co-author of the successful tender for the new Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, which was built between 2000 and 2001.

In Bremen he initiated the Profile Intermedia Festival, which took place annually from 1998 to 2006 and was organized by students from the Bremen University of the Arts.

Since January 2000 Peter Rea has been honorary professor for intermedia studies at the University of the Arts in Bremen.

Awards

  • Associate of the Royal College of Art London, Graphic Design (ARCA)
  • Silver Medal of Distinction, Royal College London, for mixed media work: design, music, image, theater and performance (director for productions at RCA London and Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
  • Various art awards and grants from the Arts Council of Great Britain
  • The Building Center Award for Information Graphics
  • Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers
  • Former Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  • Former member of the Alliance Typographie Internationale

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The University of the Arts Bremen mourns the loss of Prof. Peter Rea In: Website HfK-Bremen accessed on November 13, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Rea, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2014
Place of death Kent