Friday, February 13, 2009

Typography influencing dance?

Peter Bil'ak, together with a dancer Lukas Timulak, directed modern dance pieces inspired by typography.

These are earlier works he did in collaboration with Lukas Timulak
http://www.timulak.com/i-saw-i-was-i.html
http://www.timulak.com/bodily-writing.html

From an interview with 'The Typographic Times' (www.planet-typography.com/news/designer/bilak.html )

DIVERSITY

You're also a teacher and an editor (of the dot-dot-dot Magazine). Do you consider yourself as an educator in addition to your typeface design job?
I also work with contemporary dance, conceiving dance pieces; write for books + magazines; organize and curate exhibitions. These are seemingly very different activities, but I realized that as a designer I am not working with objects but I am able to ask questions. So I can work with various media, across disciplines, and my experience can be still relevant. I think the diversity of my work make each part stronger, I learned so much from the dancers and their approach to movement + tension that I can apply the experience while working on animation and even type design. But as the main thing: working in a medium - independent way, I can usually keep my eye on the larger picture and not to get involved in the tedious detail, which is a very welcome thing for a type designer.
I found this part of the interview very refreshing and I think I can understand this, this way he has a fresh point of view, understanding and experiencing many mediums must strengthen his creativity.

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