The Galimberti Erakusketaren Katalogoa by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award in Inprimaki eta Argitaratutako Komunikabide Diseinua Competition Category.
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The Galimberti Erakusketaren Katalogoa
Client: Timea Andorka
Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award Winner in Inprimakia Category
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The Design
About The Galimberti Erakusketaren Katalogoa
Erakusketaren katalogoaren mundu grafikoa 1915ean gaztetan hil ziren margolari bikotearen (Valeria Denes eta Sandor Galimberti) elkarrekin guztiz loturik zeuden bizitzetan inspiratuta dago. Tipografian ligadura indibidualak erabiltzeak era sotilean ilustratzen du bikote tragiko honen lana lan partekatua bihurtu zuen giza lotura sendoa. Liburua bi bolumen banatan argitaratu zen, ingelesez eta hungarieraz. Ehunezko estalkiak polts-azal batek babesten ditu, kartel gisa zabal daitekeena, edizio hungariarrak Valeria Denesen margolan bat erakusten duelarik eta ingeles edizioak Sandor Galimbertirena.
The Recognition
About the Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award
The Galimberti Erakusketaren Katalogoa Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award irabazlea da, ondo diseinatutako sorkuntzetatik espero diren eskakizun profesional eta industrialak betetzen dituzten diseinu onei ematen zaien aitorpen prestijiotsua. Burdin-mailako irabazleek beren sortzaileen trebetasun handia, espezializazio handia, adituen ulermena eta sormen-gaitasuna erakusten dituzte. The Galimberti Erakusketaren Katalogoa oso estimatua, miretsia eta maitea den sorkuntza izatea espero da, praktikoa eta berritzailea dena. Burdinazko Saria A' Design Award irabazi duen diseinu honek sektoreko praktika onenak integratzen ditu eta know-how-ari eta talentuari lotutako ezaugarri tekniko gaituak ditu. The Galimberti Erakusketaren Katalogoa zehaztasunagatik errespetatua den lana da, eta mundua leku hobea egiten laguntzen duten bizi-kalitatearen hobekuntzak eskaintzeko diseinatua dagoena.
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
- Image Credits
- © Timea Andorka, 2025
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