The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Eisen in Druckdesign Competition Category.

EisenDruck· 2025

The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Druck Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog

Die grafische Gestaltung des Ausstellungskatalogs wurde von den eng verflochtenen Leben des Malerpaares (Valeria Denes und Sandor Galimberti) inspiriert, das 1915 jung verstarb. Der Einsatz individueller Ligaturen in der Typografie veranschaulicht auf subtile Weise die starke menschliche Verbindung, die das Werk dieses tragischen Paares zu einem gemeinsamen Œuvre machte. Das Buch erschien in zwei separaten Bänden, auf Englisch und Ungarisch. Die leinengebundenen Einbände werden durch einen Schutzumschlag geschützt, der sich zu einem Poster auffalten lässt, wobei die ungarische Ausgabe ein Gemälde von Valeria Denes zeigt, die englische Ausgabe eines von Sandor Galimberti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Eisen

The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. The Galimberti Ausstellungskatalog wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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