The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Fèrre in Imprimariá Competition Category.

FèrreImprimariá· 2025

The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

A' Design Award de Fèrre Winner in Imprimariá Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion

Lo monde grafic del catàleg d'exposicion foguèt inspirat per las vidas estretament entrelassadas de la copla de pintors (Valeria Denes e Sandor Galimberti) que morriguèron joves en 1915. L'utilizacion de ligaduras individualas dins la tipografia illustra sutilament lo ligam uman fòrt que fasguèt de l'òbra d'aquesta copla tragica una creacion compartida. Lo libre foguèt publicat en dos volums separats, en anglés e en ongrés. Las coberturas ligadas en teissu son protegidas per una sobrecobertura que pòt èsser doberta en afiche, l'edicion ongresa presentant una pintura de Valeria Denes, l'edicion anglesa de Sandor Galimberti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fèrre

The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, The Galimberti Catàleg d'Exposicion merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.

Behind the Design

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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