The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Duais Iarainn A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Meadhanan Clò-bhuailte agus Foillsichte Competition Category.

IarannClò-bhualadh· 2025

The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

Duais Iarainn A' Design Award Winner in Clò-bhualadh Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh

Bha saoghal grafaigeach a' chatalog taisbeanaidh air a bhrosnachadh le beatha dlùth-fhighte a' chàraid pheantairean (Valeria Denes agus Sandor Galimberti) a bhàsaich òg ann an 1915. Tha cleachdadh cheanglaichean clò fa leth anns a' chlò-ghrafaireachd a' nochdadh gu seòlta a' cheangail làidir dhaonna a rinn obair a' chàraid thùrsaich seo nan saothair cho-roinnte. Chaidh an leabhar fhoillseachadh ann an dà leabhar air leth, ann am Beurla agus Ungairis. Tha na còmhdaichean ceangailte le aodach air an dìon le seacaid-duist as urrainn fosgladh gu bhith na phòstair, leis an deasachadh Ungaireach a' sealltainn dealbh le Valeria Denes, agus an deasachadh Beurla le Sandor Galimberti.

The Recognition

About the Duais Iarainn A' Design Award

Tha The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh air Duais Iarainn A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean math a choinnicheas ris na riatanasan proifeiseanta is gnìomhachais a thathar a' sùileachadh bho chruthachaidhean a chaidh an dealbhadh gu math. Tha buannaichean Iarainn a' nochdadh sgil mhòr, speisealachadh àrd, tuigse eòlaiche agus comas cruthachail an luchd-cruthachaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh na chruthachadh air a bheil mòran meas, ion-mholta agus gràdhach a tha practaigeach agus ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Iarainn A' Design Award a' cur nan cleachdaidhean as fheàrr sa ghnìomhachas còmhla agus tha feartan teignigeach comasach aige ceangailte ri eòlas-dèanamh agus tàlant. Tha meas air The Galimberti Catalog Taisbeanaidh airson a dhùrachd agus chaidh a dhealbhadh gus leasachaidhean càileachd beatha a thoirt seachad a chuidicheas le bhith a' dèanamh an t-saoghail na àite nas fheàrr.

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