Peter Dowhaniuk is a Toronto-based designer and art director and a partner at Symbolics, an architecture and design practice. He studied architecture at the University of Toronto and worked as an art director in New York before returning home. His work runs from brand strategy to the built object: identities, apparel, retail and interiors, plus art direction and scenography for film and commercial clients including Apple, Amazon, IKEA, Air Canada and Drake. He also co-founded Slowpokes, a community collective dedicated to connecting city people through running and the outdoors, with partners including The North Face, Norda, Lululemon, Hoka, MONOS, On, and Nike. The thread through all of it is the same: get people who don’t usually work together to say yes to the harder version, then show up and build it.