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In October 2009, Typotheque was the first type foundry to license its entire font collection as webfonts. In 1999, Biľak established the type foundry Typotheque with the idea of "digging out all the projects from the drawers and publishing them." Originally started with a single typeface, Typotheque has then published articles, book reviews and interviews with other designers, and quickly becoming a reference in the world of design and typography. After leaving Studio Dumbar, he started working independently. This began his type-designing career.ĭuring his studies, he had encountered people, whom he referred to as 'inspiring teachers' such as Irma Boom, Karel Martens, Armand Mevis, and Michael Rock.īiľak started his career with international design agency, Studio Dumbar in The Hague, where he worked between 19. He later went on to develop typefaces for Russian and Greek, however a significant achievement came with Arabic, which was a language he had no knowledge about. I had to make my own fonts to be able to design books. Travelling during that time made him more independent and allowed him to see things from multiple perspectives.Īs a student in Czechoslovakia, Biľak was often frustrated by the fact that his language were not supported by most typefaces.Įven though it's a Latin-based script, all the accents weren't available for Czech or Slovak. Those places made him question what he already knew. In school, he found out that many things he was taught in school turned out to be mainly false, and that it was easy to manipulate information. His biggest influences were the places he has lived. Later, he went to Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris, where he obtained his Master's degree, and Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands for his postgraduate laureate. He started art at the Art Academy in Bratislava, then studied briefly in the United Kingdom and the United States. He works on a broad range of cultural and commercial projects and his interest in each discipline extends beyond the practise of design to the inquisitive exploration of it.īiľak was born in Czechoslovakia.
He has designed several fonts including FF Eureka (published by Fontshop) and Fedra (published by his own type foundry Typotheque). He is a writer for numerous design magazines and frequently contributes writing and design to books and publications that include Print, Emigre, Eye (magazine), Items, tipoGrafica, Idea (magazine), Abitare and Page. ) and lectures on his work internationally. He is a member of AGI ( Alliance Graphique Internationale. He started Typotheque in 1999, Dot Dot Dot in 2000 (with Stuart Bailey), Indian Type Foundry in 2009, Works That Work magazine in 2012, and Fontstand, in 2015. He works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design, teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type&Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague). Peter Biľak ( Slovak pronunciation: born 1973 in Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands.