The Galimberti Katalogi y'Imyiyerekano by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma in Inyandiko Zisohoka Competition Category.
IcyumaInyandiko Zisohoka· 2025
The Galimberti Katalogi y'Imyiyerekano
Client: Timea Andorka
Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma Winner in Inyandiko Zisohoka Category
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The Design
About The Galimberti Katalogi y'Imyiyerekano
Isi y'ibishushanyo ya katalogi y'imyiyerekano yahumetswe n'ubuzima bwahuye cyane bw'abashakanye barango (Valeria Denes na Sandor Galimberti) bapfuye bakiri bato mu 1915. Gukoresha impeta z'inyuguti ku buryo bwihariye mu myandikire byerekana mu buryo bworoshye isano ikomeye y'abantu yatumye akazi k'aba bashakanye b'agahinda kuba ibikorwa basangiye. Igitabo cyasohotse mu bigabane bibiri bitandukanye, mu Cyongereza n'Ikinyahongiri. Impapuro z'imbere zafunzwe mu mwenda zirinzwe n'agapapuro ka hanze karinda umukungugu gashobora gufungurika gukora afishi, impapuro z'Ikinyahongiri zirimo ishusho ya Valeria Denes, impapuro z'Icyongereza zirimo iya Sandor Galimberti.
The Recognition
About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma
The Galimberti Katalogi y'Imyiyerekano ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma, ishimwe ry'agaciro ritangwa ku bishushanyo byiza bihuza ibyo umwuga n'inganda bikeneye ku bihangano byashushanyijwe neza. Abegukanye icyuma bagaragaza ubuhanga bukomeye, ubumenyi bwihariye, imyumvire y'inzobere n'ubushobozi bwo guhanga bw'ababikoze. The Galimberti Katalogi y'Imyiyerekano biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifatika kandi gifite udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye icyuma gihuza uburyo bwiza bukoreshwa mu nganda kandi gifite ibiranga bya tekiniki bifite ubushobozi, bifatanye n'ubumenyi n'impano. The Galimberti Katalogi y'Imyiyerekano yubahwa kubera gukora neza, kandi yashushanyijwe kugira ngo inoze ubuzima, ifashe gutuma isi iba nziza.
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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