| Birth Date: | 29 March 1973 |
| Occupation: | Typeface designer, graphic designer |
| Signature: | Peter Biľak sign.jpg |
Peter Biľak (in Slovak pronounced as /ˈpeter ˈbiʎak/; born March 29, 1973) is a Slovak graphics and typeface designer based in The Hague, Netherlands. He works in the editorial, graphic, and type design fields.
Bil'ak teaches typeface design at the Royal Academy of Art.[1] and lectures on his work internationally. He is a writer for numerous design magazines and contributes writing and designs to publications including Print, Emigre, Eye (magazine), Items, tipoGrafica, Idea (magazine), Abitare, and Page.
He designed several fonts including FF Eureka (published by Fontshop) and Fedra (published by his own type foundry Typotheque).
Biľak was born in Czechoslovakia on March 29, 1973. He initially studied at the Art Academy in Bratislava, then studied briefly in the United Kingdom and the United States. 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.
Biľak started his career with Studio Dumbar, an international design agency in The Hague. After working there from 1999 to 2001, he left Studio Dumbar and began to work independently.
In 2003 he designed a series of standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal Mail (TNT Post).[3]
In 2013, after raising €30,000 in a crowdfunding campaign,[8] Biľak founded Works That Work, a creativity-focused magazine, which was published twice a year by Typotheque. It was published in print and in a digital format.
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In 2012, he was named as one of Metropolis' 12 Game Changers, due to his contribution to non-Latin typography.[4]
In 2015, Peter Biľak, together with Andrej Krátky, co-founded Fontstand, a desktop app that allows users to try fonts for free or rent them per month.[6] Fontstand has been included in the New Europe 100, a list of Central and Eastern Europe innovations that recognizes those with expertise in emerging technologies, unique skills, and social outreach which have had a global impact.[7]