Photo: FontShop from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons¹⁶

Peter Biľak

Slovak graphic and typeface designer

Peter Biľak (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpeter ˈbiʎak]; born 29 March 1973) is a Dutch-Slovak designer based in The Hague, Netherlands. He works in the editorial, graphic, and type design fields.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Peter Biľak (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Mar 29, 1973.¹

About

He has been teaching typography since 2001 at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He founded Typotheque in 1999, a company that develops fonts for global languages and also operates as a publishing house. His personal focus is on the support of digitally disadvantaged languages and the revitalisation of indigenous languages in North America, South Asia and Africa.

From Wikipedia’s article on Peter Biľak, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Indian Type FoundryFounder¹⁴
TypothequeFounder¹⁵

Early life and education

Date not recordedJan van Eyck Academie^{3 4}

Career

Occupation: graphic designer, graphic artist, typographer, type designer, docent, calligrapher, university teacher, postage stamp designer.^{9 10}

Date not recordedWorked at Challenging Jewellery^{5 6}
Date not recordedFounded Indian Type Foundry⁷
Date not recordedFounded Typotheque⁸

Personal life

CitizenshipKingdom of the Netherlands, Slovakia^{10 11}

Sources

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WikidataPeter Biľak on Wikidata
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WikipediaPeter Biľak on Wikipedia
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WikidataPeter Biľak: education, on Wikidata
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Wikidataeducation, as reported
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WikidataPeter Biľak: Worked at Challenging Jewellery, on Wikidata
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WikidataWorked at Challenging Jewellery, as reported
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WikidataPeter Biľak: Founded Indian Type Foundry, on Wikidata
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WikidataPeter Biľak: Founded Typotheque, on Wikidata
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WikidataPeter Biľak: occupation, on Wikidata
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Wikidataoccupation, as reported by RKDartists
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WikidataPeter Biľak: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataPeter Biľak: Official website, on Wikidata
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WikidataPeter Biľak: Instagram, on Wikidata
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WikidataIndian Type Foundry, Founder
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WikidataTypotheque, Founder
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Wikimedia CommonsPeter Biľak photo by FontShop from USA, CC BY 2.0