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The Galimberti Näitusekataloog by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Näitusekataloog by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Rauaauhind A' Design Award in Trükise ja avaldatud meedia disain Competition Category.


RaudTrükis· 2025

The Galimberti Näitusekataloog

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

Rauaauhind A' Design Award Winner in Trükis Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Näitusekataloog

Näituskataloogi graafiline maailm sai inspiratsiooni kunstnikupaari (Valeria Denes ja Sandor Galimberti) tihedalt põimunud elust, kes surid noorelt 1915. aastal. Tüpograafias kasutatud üksikud ligatuurid illustreerivad peenelt tugevat inimlikku sidet, mis muutis selle traagilise paari töö ühiseks loominguks. Raamat avaldati kahes eraldi köites inglise ja ungari keeles. Riidest kaaned on kaitstud kaanepaberiga, mida saab avada plakatiks – ungari väljaandel on Valeria Denesi maal, ingliskeelsel Sandor Galimberti maal.

The Recognition

About the Rauaauhind A' Design Award

The Galimberti Näitusekataloog on Rauaauhinna A' Design Award võitja, prestiižikas tunnustus, mis antakse headele disainidele, mis vastavad professionaalsetele ja tööstuslikele nõuetele, mida oodatakse hästi disainitud töödelt. Raudvõitjad näitavad oma loojate suurt oskust, kõrget spetsialiseerumist, asjatundlikku mõistmist ja loomingulist võimekust. The Galimberti Näitusekataloog peaks olema kõrgelt hinnatud, imetletud ja armastatud looming, mis on praktiline ja uuenduslik. See Rauaauhinna A' Design Award võidudisain ühendab tööstuse parimaid tavasid ning tal on pädevad tehnilised omadused, mis on seotud oskusteabe ja andega. The Galimberti Näitusekataloog on austatud oma põhjalikkuse eest ning on loodud pakkuma elukvaliteedi parandusi, mis aitavad teha maailma paremaks paigaks.

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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