Peter Biľak
Peter Biľak (born 1973) Slovakian graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is the head of the type foundry Typotheque. In 2003, he designed a series of the standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal mail (TNT Post), today one of the Icons of the Post[1].Biľak teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type&Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague)[2], and lectures widely on graphic design and typography. He also contributes regularly to international publications and books, including Print, Emigre, Eye_(magazine), Items, tipoGrafica, Idea (magazine), and is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale[3].
Between 2000 and 2007 Biľak was the co-founder, and co-editor of Dot Dot Dot. The magazine is now published out of New York[4] by Biľak's partner Stuart Bailey.
From 2004 he has been collaborating with the choreogrpaher Lukáš Timulak on the concepts of dance performances. Together they were subject of an exhibition ‘InLoop/EnTry’ in Stroom, Centre for Art and Architecture[5].
In 2009, Biľak co-founded Indian Type Foundry, specialising in development of digital fonts for Indian languages.
For his contribution to the non-Latin typography, he was named in 2012 one of the 12 Game Changers by Metropolis_(architecture_magazine)[6].
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[edit] Typeface design
- FF Eureka for FSI FontShop International, 1995
- FF Eureka Sans for FSI FontShop International, 1998
- Fedra Sans for Typotheque, 2001
- Fedra Mono for Typotheque, 2002
- Fedra Serif for Typotheque, 2003
- Fedra Arabic for Typotheque, 2007
- Greta Text for Typotheque, 2007
- Greta Display for Typotheque, 2007
- Greta Display for Typotheque, 2007
- History for Typotheque, 2008
- Irma Text for Typotheque, 2011
- Julien for Typotheque, 2011
[edit] Notes
- Type Radio interview with Peter Biľak
- Progetto Grafico No.9, 2007, interview with Peter Biľak
- Articles by Peter Biľak
- Middendorp, Jan, Dutch Type. 010 publishers: 2004. ISBN 90-6450-460-1.
- Eye magazine No.75, Spring 2010, Interview with Peter Biľak
- Designing for India, Bangalore Mirror, 6 February 2011
- Heller, Steven, The Design Entrepreneur Rockport Publishers:2008. ISBN 978-1592534210.
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