The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Hlau in Tsim Xov Xwm Luam Tawm thiab Xov Xwm Tshaj Tawm Competition Category.

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The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

A' Design Award Hlau Winner in Luam Tawm Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia

Lub ntiaj teb duab kos ntawm phau ntawv kev nthuav qhia no tau txais kev tshoov siab los ntawm lub neej sib cuam tshuam ze heev ntawm khub niam txiv kws kos duab (Valeria Denes thiab Sandor Galimberti) uas tuag thaum tseem hluas xyoo 1915. Kev siv cov tsiaj ntawv sib txuas (ligatures) hauv typography qhia tau mos mos txog kev sib txuam tib neeg muaj zog uas ua rau cov haujlwm ntawm ob tug kws kos duab tu siab no los ua tej haujlwm sib koom ua ke. Phau ntawv no tau luam tawm ua ob phau cais, ua lus Askiv thiab lus Hungarian. Cov npog khi ntaub muaj daim npog tiv thaiv plua plav uas qhib tau ua ib daim poster, phau lus Hungarian muaj duab kos los ntawm Valeria Denes, phau lus Askiv muaj duab kos los ntawm Sandor Galimberti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hlau

The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Hlau, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo uas ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau ntawm kev ua haujlwm thiab kev lag luam uas xav tau los ntawm cov khoom tsim zoo. Cov neeg yeej Hlau qhia txog kev txawj loj, kev paub tshwj xeeb siab, kev nkag siab ntawm cov kws tshaj lij thiab lub peev xwm tsim ntawm cov neeg tsim. The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub uas siv tau thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Hlau no sib xyaw cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev lag luam thiab muaj cov yam ntxwv siv tshuab txawj ntse txuas nrog kev paub thiab txuj ci. The Galimberti Phau Ntawv Kev Nthuav Qhia tau txais kev hwm vim nws tag nrho thiab tsim los muab kev txhim kho rau lub neej uas pab ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua.

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