Peter Bilak

Peter Biľak is a Slovak graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is the head of the Typotheque and co-founder of the Indian Type Foundry.

In 2003, he designed a series of the standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal mail (TNT Post), which were reprinted several times with total print run of over 140 million copies. Biľak teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type & Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and lectures widely on graphic design and typography. He is the founding editor of Dot Dot Dot, an art and design magazine.

With choreographer Lukáš Timulak he created many modern dance performances for theaters across Europe, most recently for Gothenburg Opera and Nederlands Dans Theater. He has designed several popular fonts including FF Eureka (1998), Fedra Sans (2001), Greta (2007).

He also contributes regularly to international publications and books, including Print, Emigre, Eye, Items, or Idea, magazine.

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