Following a foundation art program in Basel, he graduated from Black Forest Academy (Lörrach), and then attended a year of religious studies at Capernwray Hall in the United Kingdom.

In 1974 Peters immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada where he married Beverly Guay Pauls, a Canadian he had met while studying in England; they divorced in 2001.

Since the early 1990s he has been a guest lecturer on graphic design and visual communication at schools in North and South America, Asia, and Europe.

[5] Peters served on the executive of the Manitoba Chapter of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers (ACID/M) before being elected its president in 1984.

[8] In 2000, Peters joined the board of the international humanitarian organization Design for the World (DW),[9] and was appointed a Vice President in 2002.

[11] Peters has been a regular foreign feature contributor to Communication Arts magazine since 1995,[12] and has written for numerous international design publications including HOW, Print and the AIGA Journal.

In 2008, Peters edited and published the book Gray Matter Graffiti: remnants of collections lost… an early gallery from some alleyways & other by-ways (ISBN 978-1-55383-196-9) by Vancouver poet Sam W. Reimer.