Podcast appearances and mentions of peter bil'ak

Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey is a designer, writer, editor, and publisher. He co-founded Dot Dot Dot with Peter Bil'ak in 2000 and began working with David Reinfurt, under the name Dexter Sinister, in 2006. Along with Reinfurt and Angie Keefer, he's the co-founder and publisher of The Serving Library. Late last year, he was appointed Head of Design at the ICA in London. In this conversation, Stuart and I talk about his early design career and working with Richard Hollis, the relationships he sees between design and writing, and how his career is influencing his approach to his new job. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm.

Peter Bil'ak is a designer, writer, type designer, and publisher based in the Netherlands. My introduction to Peter's work was through Dot Dot Dot, the magazine he co-founded and published with Stuart Bailey in the early 2000s and in this episode, we talk about the origins of that magazine as well as his new publication, Works That Work. We also talk about how he started writing and how that influences his work as a designer, shifting designing criticism from the perspective of the maker to that of the user, and the general representation of design magazines. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm.

This week we're off at the EDCH editorial design conference in Munich, where the first speaker was Peter Bil'ak from Works That Work. He spoke about his innovative design magazine that's not a design magazine, and also announced that he's going to stop publishing after issue 10. I wanted to find out more, so I grabbed him in a break, and we spoke about his aims in making the magazine, and why he's decided that the project can't go on forever.

The TD Speaker Series presents Peter Bil’ak: Depth + Width Slovakian by birth, Peter Bil'ak is based in the Hague, Netherlands, and works in the field of editorial, graphic and type design and teaches at the Royal Academy of Arts. He heads the Typotheque Type Foundry in the Hague and co-founded the Indian Type Foundry in Ahmedabad, India. Bilak has an extensive publication history, including founding, editing and designing the art and design journal Dot Dot Dot. Most recently he has launched Works the Work, a magazine dedicated to practical, unexpected manifestations of creativity. Bil'ak's talk Depth + Width will take a look at the specialized practices that are evident in the current design world, and offer examples of an alternative model where seemingly unrelated disciplines can inform and enrich the work of smaller independent studios.