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Peter Biľak

Recent articles about Peter Biľak

The start-up that stopped

Issue 97, Autumn 2018

Over just ten issues, Peter Biľak’s Works That Work sought to rethink design, while exploring new models of distribution and finance

Wordplay for a picture palace

Issue 86, Autumn 2013

Review

In classical texts on the ‘art of memory’, the student is advised to visualise objects…

‘I have more reasons to make fonts than ever … typeface design is a cumulative process, there are more possible entry points, more references, more inspiration than ever before. As with books, when you engage in reading, it points to more books … you might appreciate the ones you read early on more, because of your new understanding.’

Peter Bil’ak

Issue 71, Spring 2009

Feature

‘The majority are guided by historical understanding’

Golden age?

Issue 71, Spring 2009

Feature

The digital revolution still fuels a creative explosion in the way type is made and sold. Twelve practitioners take stock of the Zeitgeist

Recent blog posts about Peter Biľak

They showed backbone

26 July 2024
Reviews

Spinorama is an exhibition of book spines in East London. Simon Esterson takes a sideways look

Type for survival

15 May 2023
Critical path, Design history, Technology, Typography

How type design is helping to save Indigenous Canadian languages from extinction. Will Novosedlik reports

English-speaking designers take it for granted that every typeface will be available in their language …

Noted #72

11 December 2015
Food design, Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

A New Type of Imprint, Hue, Sabor, Recens Paper and Works That Work

Here are a few publications that caught our attention in recent weeks. Norwegian magazine A…

Noted #71

3 November 2015
Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography

TPTQ Arabic; Frank; FS Brabo by Fontsmith; Typomad 2015; New Perspectives in Typography; The Eric Gill Series

Typotheque’s Peter Biľak has announced the launch of TPTQ Arabic, a new type foundry dedicated…

Noted #64

28 November 2014
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Type Tuesday

Off Life, Type Tuesday, Aglu photobooks, Amore E Piombo and Works That Work

Here are a few things that caught our attention in recent weeks. Issue no. 1…

Gateway Barcelona

7 June 2014
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, New media, Typography, Visual culture

The city gears up for its annual FADfest, the Festival of All Design. Preview by Astrid Stavro

The FADfest has established a reputation as the largest and most dynamic design event in…

Noted #54

5 August 2013
Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

Works That Work #2, Printed Pages #2, Desktop publishing, Presstival and some words for the London Design Festival

Here are a few publications and announcements that have grabbed our attention over the past…

Noted #50

27 February 2013
Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Visual culture

Bastard chairs and other Works that Work; geometric rugs at the Design Museum; Strike!, posters, a standards manual & the first live Type Tuesday at St Bride in London

Last week we spoke to graphic artist Clayton Junior about his fair trade rug, launching…

Walk-in book

19 February 2013
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture

In the V&A’s upcoming ‘Memory Palace’, twenty illustrators and designers will give graphic form to Hari Kunzru’s post-apocalyptic narrative.

The idea for the Memory Palace exhibition, which opens this summer at the V&A, came…