Abstract: We live in the age where experts are celebrated, and the narrower the focus, the more is it more appreciated. Peter Bilak will argue that depth of focus alone may be too limiting, and instead demonstrate that wide area of interests can make one’s work stronger.
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. He started Typotheque in 1999, Dot Dot Dot in 2000, Indian Type Foundry in 2009, and Works That Work magazine in 2012. In 2003, he designed a series of post age stamps for the Dutch Royal Mail, which were reprinted several times with a total print run of more than 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.