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Peter Biľak
Peter Biľak in 2013
Born (1973-03-29) March 29, 1973 (age 52)
Occupations
  • Typeface designer
  • graphic designer
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Peter Biľak (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpeter ˈbiʎak]; born 29 March 1973) is a Dutch-Slovak designer based in The Hague, Netherlands.[1] He works in the editorial, graphic, and type design fields.[2]

He has been teaching typography since 2001 at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.[3] He founded Typotheque in 1999, a company that develops fonts for global languages and also operates as a publishing house.[4]

Biography

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Biľak was born in Czechoslovakia on 29 March 1973.[2] He initially studied at the Art Academy in Bratislava, then studied briefly in the United Kingdom and the United States. [1]Later, he went to Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris for his master's degree and Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands, for his postgraduate laureate.[5]

Peter Biľak at Typo Berlin 2017

Biľak started his career with Studio Dumbar, an international design agency in The Hague.[6]

In 2003, he designed a series of standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal Mail (TNT Post). [3]Since 2004, Biľak has collaborated with the choreographer Lukáš Timulak on the concepts of dance performances.[7] Together, they were the subject of an exhibition 'InLoop/EnTry' in Stroom, Centre for Art and Architecture.[8]

Alongside Timulak, he co-founded the Make Move Think Foundation, an organization that supports multidisciplinary artistic collaborations, primarily in the field of modern dance and occasionally in film production.[7]

Bilak has collaborated with a range of dance institutions and companies, including Nederlands Dans Theater, Gothenburg Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Staatsballett Hannover, Slovak National Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo.[9] His contributions have included choreographic collaboration as well as set and visual design. In many of these projects, Bilak has played a role in developing the conceptual framework and has been responsible for set design.[10]

In 2015, Biľak, together with Andrej Krátky, co-founded Fontstand, a desktop app that allows users to try fonts for free or rent them per month.[11][12]

He also co-created Dot Dot Dot with Stuart Bailey in 2000.[13] He is a member of AGI[14] and lectures on his work internationally.[15] He is a writer for numerous design magazines and contributes writing in Print, Emigre, Eye (magazine), Items, tipoGrafica, Idea (magazine), Abitare, and Page.[2]

In 2013, after raising €30,000 in a crowdfunding campaign,[16] Biľak founded Works That Work, a creativity-focused magazine, which was published twice a year by Typotheque.[17]

Awards

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In 2012, he was named as one of Metropolis' 12 Game Changers, due to his contribution to non-Latin typography.[18] In 2014, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic awarded Biľak the Goodwill Envoy award for spreading the reputation of Slovakia.[19] In 2019 he was awarded the Gold Prize in the European Design Awards for his font "Ping," a typeface that supported hundreds of Latin-based languages, and 10 non-Latin languages.[20]

Selected bibliography

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  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart, eds. (19 April 2007). Dot Dot Dot 13. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ASIN B005M4TDL6.
  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart, eds. (21 July 2006). Dot Dot Dot 11. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620052.
  • Bilak, Peter (15 February 2005). Bailey, Stuart (ed.). Dot Dot Dot 8. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620021.
  • Bilak, Peter (1 January 2008). KAPITAL K. Onomatopee. ISBN 9789078454229.
  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart, eds. (2 October 2008). Dot Dot Dot 12: Maybe It's Time It's Maybe. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620069.
  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart, eds. (1 March 2006). Dot Dot Dot 11. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620052.
  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart, eds. (15 February 2005). Dot Dot Dot 8. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  • Bilak, Peter (31 March 2010). ECAL: Typeface as Program. JRP|Ringier. p. 180. ISBN 9783037640722.
  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart (15 October 2004). Dot Dot Dot 7. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620014.
  • Bilak, Peter; Bailey, Stuart, eds. (1 February 2008). Dot Dot Dot: S As N Sstenographer. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 104. ISBN 9789077620083.      

References

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  1. ^ a b Long, Kieran (26 January 2009). "Typographer Focus: Peter Biľak". Dwell. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c designboom, andy butler I. (27 June 2014). "interview with designer peter bilak". designboom | architecture & design magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  3. ^ a b TypeRoom. "Third time is a charm: Peter Biľak on the return of Fontstand International Typography Conference - TypeRoom". www.typeroom.eu. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  4. ^ Fonder, Sarah (9 August 2023). "Typotheque's Peter Bil'ak on How Font Foundries Can Keep Centuries-Old Languages Alive". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  5. ^ "Eye Magazine | Feature | Reputations: Peter Biľak". Eye Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  6. ^ Peter Bil'ak: Designing for dance, typefaces and marginalised alphabets | Design Indaba. Retrieved 1 May 2025 – via www.designindaba.com.
  7. ^ a b Pownall, Augusta (7 January 2019). "Set and type designer Peter Bilak creates a 32-arm lighting design for Royal Swedish Ballet". Dezeen. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  8. ^ "Stroom Den Haag - InLoop/EnTry: Peter Bilak & Lukáš Timulak". www.stroom.nl. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Timulak & Kor'sia | Season 24-25 | Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo". www.balletsdemontecarlo.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  10. ^ "Pierre Pontvianne / Lukas Timulak / Yuval Pick". Opéra national de Lyon. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  11. ^ Hohenadel, Kristin (22 May 2015). "This New Service Wants to Be the iTunes for Fonts". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  12. ^ [8] Archived 2015-12-04 at the Wayback Machine The New Europe 100, Fontstand founders
  13. ^ OReilly, Adam (8 June 2011). "Dexter Sinister's New Character". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  14. ^ [2] Archived 2012-01-07 at the Wayback Machine Peter Bilak at AGI
  15. ^ "MFA Design and Graphic Design present: Lecture by Peter Biľak - CCA Portal". portal.cca.edu. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  16. ^ "And it's here! (Works That Work magazine)". worksthatwork.com. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  17. ^ Leslie, Jeremy (11 March 2013). "At work with: Peter Bilak, Works That Work". magCulture. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  18. ^ [4] Archived 2012-02-03 at the Wayback Machine Metropolis Magazine: Peter Bilak, Game Changer
  19. ^ [5] Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine Minister Lajčák presented Goodwill Envoy awards
  20. ^ "26 Nederlandse European Design Awards 2019". MarketingTribune (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 September 2023.
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