Peter Biľak

Who is Peter Biľak?

Peter Biľak 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, today one of the Icons of the Post. Biľak teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type&Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art, and lectures widely on graphic design and typography. He also contributes regularly to international publications and books, including Print, Emigre, Eye, Items, tipoGrafica, Idea, and is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale.

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 by Biľak's partner Stuart Bailey.

From 2004 he has been collaborating with the choreographer Lukáš Timulak on the concepts of dance performances. Together they were subject of an exhibition ‘InLoop/EnTry’ in Stroom, Centre for Art and Architecture.

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.