The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga by Timea Andorka

The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga by Timea Andorka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mamanu Lolomi Competition Category.

UʻameaLolomi· 2025

The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga

by Timea Andorka

Client: Timea Andorka

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Lolomi Category

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The Design

About The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga

O le lalolagi ata o le kataloka fa'aaliga na fa'aosofia e olaga fe'avea'i lelei o le to'alua tusiata (Valeria Denes ma Sandor Galimberti) na maliliu i lo la taimi laititi i le 1915. O le fa'aogaina o ligature ta'itasi i le tusitomai e fa'aalia ma le le iloga le feso'ota'iga malosi o tagata na fa'atupuina ai le galuega a lenei to'alua fa'anoanoa i se galuega fa'atasi. Na lomia le tusi i tusi e lua ese, i le gagana Igilisi ma le gagana Hungarian. O ufiufi nonoa i ie o lo'o puipuia e se ufi puipui efuefu e mafai ona tatala e fai ma pepa fa'asalalau, o le lomiga Hungarian e fa'aalia ai se ata vali a Valeria Denes, ae o le lomiga Igilisi e fa'aalia ai se ata vali a Sandor Galimberti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai The Galimberti Kataloka Fa'aaliga ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

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