The Galimberti Utstillingskatalog by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award i Jern in Trykt og publisert mediadesign Competition Category.
JernTrykk· 2025
The Galimberti Utstillingskatalog
Client: Timea Andorka
A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Trykk Category
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About The Galimberti Utstillingskatalog
Den grafiske verden til utstillingskatalogen var inspirert av de tett sammenvevde livene til malerparet (Valeria Denes og Sandor Galimberti) som døde unge i 1915. Bruken av individuelle ligaturer i typografien illustrerer subtilt den sterke menneskelige forbindelsen som gjorde arbeidet til dette tragiske paret til et felles verk. Boken ble utgitt i to separate bind, på engelsk og ungarsk. De stoffbundne omslagene er beskyttet av et smussomslag som kan åpnes til en plakat, der den ungarske utgaven viser et maleri av Valeria Denes, mens den engelske utgaven viser et maleri av Sandor Galimberti.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Jern
The Galimberti Utstillingskatalog er vinner av A' Design Award i Jern, en prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles gode design som oppfyller de profesjonelle og industrielle kravene man forventer av veldesignede skaperverk. Jernvinnere viser stor dyktighet, høy spesialisering, ekspertforståelse og kreativ kapasitet hos skaperne. The Galimberti Utstillingskatalog forventes å være et høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt skaperverk som er praktisk og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Jern, integrerer bransjens beste praksis og har kompetente tekniske egenskaper knyttet til kunnskap og talent. The Galimberti Utstillingskatalog respekteres for sin grundighet og er utformet for å gi forbedringer i livskvalitet som bidrar til å gjøre verden til et bedre sted.
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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