Peter Bil'ak's guest appearances

Peter Bil'ak

Scratching the Surface

Stack Magazines

Jack Self

Kurt Andersen

Chris Lee

Rob Walker

Andrew Blauvelt

Khoi Vinh

Manuel Lima

Paul Ford

Allison Arieff

Kate Wagner

Steven Heller

Paola Antonelli

Matthew Stuart

Liz Danzico

Rosanne Somerson

OwlTail

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.

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 <a href="http://scratchingthesurface.fm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">scratchingthesurface.fm</a>.

27. Peter Bil'ak

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.

Episode 23: Peter Bil'ak, Works That Work