Lectors Peter Biľak & Radim Peško part of Sofia Design Week 2012.

Sofia Design Week ( 1 - 8 of June) is an international festival for design and visual culture. It takes place every June in Sofia. It features a professional forum with prominent speakers from all over the world, as well as an extensive program of open events aimed at the broader audience - exhibitions, workshops, discussions, talks, screenings, parties, book openings, events for children, etc.
Sofia Design Week strives to serve as a platform which stimulates and supports the development of design professionals in Bulgaria. At the same time the festival aims to present and promote sustainable and sensible practices for better and beneficial visual environment from around the world.

This year two lectors that I chose to write about will participate.
Peter Biľak was born in Czechoslovakia, lives in the Netherlands; worked at Studio Dumbar, before started a design studio in The Hague, Netherlands, where he works in the field of editorial, graphic and type design, combined with part time teaching at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague; in 1999 started Typotheque type foundry, in 2000 founded, edited and designed art & design journal DOT DOT DOT; in 2009 co-founded Indian Type Foundry, now writing for various design related magazines; and collaborating on creation of modern dance performances.

 Radim Peško is a designer currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work focuses on typography as an intersection of technologies and language, type design, and occasional exhibition projects. He is a regular contributor to various publications including Dot Dot Dot magazine. He currently teaches at Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

 You can find more information about Sofia Design Week calendar HERE!