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The Galimberti Výstavní katalog by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Výstavní katalog by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Železná cena A' Design Award in Tisk Competition Category.


ŽelezoTisk· 2025

The Galimberti Výstavní katalog

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

Železná cena A' Design Award Winner in Tisk Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Výstavní katalog

Grafický svět výstavního katalogu byl inspirován úzce propojenými životy malířského páru (Valeria Denes a Sandor Galimberti), kteří mladí zemřeli v roce 1915. Použití jednotlivých ligatur v typografii jemně ilustruje silné lidské pouto, které činilo dílo tohoto tragického páru sdíleným dílem. Kniha byla vydána ve dvou samostatných svazcích, v angličtině a maďarštině. Plátěné vazby jsou chráněny přebalem, který lze rozložit do plakátu, přičemž maďarské vydání obsahuje obraz Valerie Denes a anglické vydání obraz Sandora Galimbertiho.

The Recognition

About the Železná cena A' Design Award

The Galimberti Výstavní katalog je vítězem Železné ceny A' Design Award, prestižního uznání udělovaného dobrým designům, které splňují profesní a průmyslové požadavky očekávané od dobře navržených výtvorů. Železní vítězové prokazují velké dovednosti, vysokou specializaci, odborné porozumění a tvůrčí kapacitu svých tvůrců. Očekává se, že The Galimberti Výstavní katalog bude vysoce ceněným, obdivovaným a oblíbeným výtvorem, který je praktický a inovativní. Tento design, který získal Železnou cenu A' Design Award, integruje osvědčené postupy odvětví a má kompetentní technické vlastnosti spojené s know-how a talentem. The Galimberti Výstavní katalog je vážen pro svou důkladnost a je navržen tak, aby poskytoval zlepšení kvality života, která pomáhají činit svět lepším místem.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The graphic world of the catalogue was inspired by the closely intertwined lives of the painting couple (Valéria Dénes & Sándor Galimberti) who died young in 1915. The use of individual ligatures in the typography subtly illustrates the strong human connection that made the work of this tragic couple a shared oeuvre.
The oeuvre is largely lost, which is why no such comprehensive catalogue has been produced until now. The graphic challenge was to present this fragmentary oeuvre in a dignified and monumental way.
Dimensions & Packaging
230 × 290mm, 372 pages, hardcover book, cloth covered, gold foil stamped, with dust jacket
Tags
book, catalogue, exhibition, editorial design, paintings, blue, gold, fine art,
Production Technology
The book was published in two separate volumes, in English and Hungarian. We chose a linen binding because both painters preferred this type of canvas, which has a finer weave. The cloth-bound covers are protected by a dust jacket that can be opened into a poster, the Hungarian edition featuring a painting by Dénes Valéria, the English edition by Sándor Galimberti. Only the name is stamped on the blue canvas with gold foil, so that this simplicity highlights the colourful and exciting details of the paintings on the dust jacket.
Design Challenge
To express the close relationship between the two painters, we searched for months for the perfect serif font, which has enough ligature. We couldn't find one, so I created our own set of ligatures for the catalogue, based on the Modelista font.
Research
Often, even contemporaries could not tell which of the two painters painted which painting. Today's scientific research, led by curator Gergely Barki, has sought to unravel the differences and to place the two painters in the Hungarian and international canon in the context of a lifetime exhibition. The result of this research is the catalogue, which presents even richer research material than the exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery.
Inspiration
“These two people were like two tall, slender trees, growing up straight side by side, without bowing to each other, without depriving each other of sunlight.” (Jolán Simon)
Project Duration
THE GALIMBERTI. The Lives and Works of Sándor Galimberti (1883–1915) and Valéria Dénes (1877–1915) exhibition
10 October 2024 – 23 February 2025, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Operation Flow
We wanted to please visitors with a removable poster of the book. So that they could take home reproductions of the most important paintings at a larger scale than the book, in almost original aspect ratio.
Patents
graphic design © Timea Andorka, 2024
text © Gergely Barki, 2024
© Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 2024
Team Members
graphic design: Timea Andorka
Image Credits
© Timea Andorka, 2025

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