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Peter Biľak (born 1973) 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 (TNT Post), today one of the Icons of the Post.〔() Iconen van de post〕 Biľak teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type&Media at the KABK, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague),〔() Royal Academy of Art in The Hague〕 and lectures widely on graphic design and typography. He also contributes regularly to international publications and books, including Print, Emigre, Eye (magazine), Items, tipoGrafica, Idea (magazine), and is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale.〔() Peter Bilak at AGI〕 Between 2000 and 2007 Biľak was the co-founder, and co-editor of ''Dot Dot Dot''. 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.〔() 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 (architecture magazine).〔() Metropolis Magazine: Peter Bilak, Game Changer〕 In 2013, after raising €30.000 in a crowdfunding campaign,〔() Works That Work press release〕 Biľak founded ''Works That Work'', a magazine of unexpected creativity, published twice a year by Typotheque, in print and digital edition. The British national daily newspaper The Guardian named Works That Work as ‘some of the best-looking new magazines’,〔() The beautiful magazines setting out to prove print isn't dead〕 and Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University reported how ‘the small magazine has found a way to get noticed globally by creating a beautiful digital edition as well as a creative way to distribute its print copies—gaining a lot of ever-coveted user engagement in the process.’ .〔() In the Netherlands, a magazine experiments with “social distribution” (and they don’t mean retweets)〕 Works That Work distributes 43% of its print run 〔() First year of Works That Work magazine in numbers.〕 via its innovative Social Distribution, a reader-based system of distribution of physical copies of magazine bypassing traditional distribution channels.〔() Reader based distribution of magazine〕 In 2014, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic awarded Biľak the Goodwill Envoy award 〔() Minister Lajčák presented Goodwill Envoy awards〕 for the successful spreading of the good name of Slovakia abroad. In 2015, Peter Biľak, together with Andrej Krátky co-founded Fontstand, a desktop app that allows trying fonts for free or renting them by the month, also referred to as iTunes for fonts.〔() This New Service Wants to Be the iTunes for Fonts〕 Fontstand has been included〔() The New Europe 100, Fontstand founders〕 in the New Europe 100, a list of Central and Eastern Europe innovations that recognises those who - with their courage for innovation, expertise in emerging technologies, unique skills and social outreach - are having a global impact. New Europe 100 is organised by Res Publica together with Google, the Visegrad Fund, and in cooperation with the Financial Times.〔() The 2015 New Europe 100: sectors in the vanguard of change〕 ==Typeface design== *FF Eureka for FontFont, 1995 *FF Eureka Sans for FontFont, 1998 *Fedra Sans for Typotheque, 2001 *Fedra Mono for Typotheque, 2002 *Fedra Serif for Typotheque, 2003 *Fedra Arabic for Typotheque, 2007 *Greta Text for Typotheque, 2007 *Greta Display for Typotheque, 2007 *Greta Display for Typotheque, 2007 *History for Typotheque, 2008 *Irma Text for Typotheque, 2011 *Julien for Typotheque, 2011 *Karloff for Typotheque, 2012 *Lava for Typotheque, 2013 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Biľak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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