The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Vy in Famolavolana Pirinty sy Haino Aman-jery Navoaka Competition Category.

VyPirinty· 2025

The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

A' Design Award Vy Winner in Pirinty Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana

Ny tontolo grafika an'ny katalogin'ny fampirantiana dia naka aingam-panahy tamin'ny fiainan'ny mpivady mpanao sary hosodoko (Valeria Denes sy Sandor Galimberti) izay mifamatotra akaiky ary maty tamin'ny taona 1915 fony mbola tanora. Ny fampiasana ligature tsirairay amin'ny typography dia maneho am-panetrentena ny fifandraisana matanjaka maha-olona izay nahatonga ny asan'io mpivady mampalahelo io ho asa niara-natao. Navoaka tamin'ny boky roa misaraka ny boky, amin'ny teny anglisy sy hongroà. Ny fonony mipetaka lamba dia arovan'ny sarona taratasy izay azo asokafana ho afisy, ny kinova hongroà dia mampiseho sary hosodokon'i Valeria Denes, ary ny kinova anglisy kosa dia mampiseho sary hosodokon'i Sandor Galimberti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Vy

Nandresy ny A' Design Award Vy ny famolavolana The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana, fankasitrahana malaza omena ny famolavolana tsara izay mahafeno ny fepetra ara-barotra sy ara-indostria andrasana amin'ny famoronana natao tsara. Ny mpandresy Vy dia mampiseho fahaiza-manao lehibe, fahaizana manokana ambony, fahatakarana manam-pahaizana ary fahaizana mamorona an'ireo mpamorona azy. Andrasana ho famoronana ankasitrahana be, ankafizina ary tiana izay azo ampiharina sady vaovao ny famolavolana The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Vy ity dia mampiray ny fomba fanao tsara indrindra amin'ny indostria ary manana toetra ara-teknika mahomby mifandray amin'ny fahalalana sy ny talenta. Ny famolavolana The Galimberti Katalogin'ny Fampirantiana dia hajaina noho ny fitandremany ary natao hanome fanatsarana ny kalitaon'ny fiainana izay manampy hahatonga ny tontolo ho toerana tsara kokoa.

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