Gábor Palotai

Gábor Palotai (born November 29, 1956) is a Swedish–Hungarian designer, artist, graphic designer and typographer. Since 1981 he lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.[1] Gábor Palotai was born 1956 in Budapest, Hungary, where he also studied and received his MA degree in graphic design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design) in Budapest 1976–1980. After his graduation he left Budapest and moved to Stockholm, where he continued his studies at The Royal Institute of Art, 1981–1983 and Beckmans College of Design, 1983–1984.[2][3]

Gábor Palotai is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2002.[4] AGI unites the world’s leading graphic designers. He is also a member of Svenska tecknare (The Association of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers), Konstnärernas riksorganisation (The Swedish Artist's National Organisation), and since 2015, the State Heraldic Board of the National Archives of Sweden. Gábor Palotai is an honorary professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest.

Works

His design studio, Gabor Palotai Design,[5] is based in Stockholm, Sweden.[6] Gábor Palotai works on a broad range of commissions and design projects within the field of visual communication such as corporate design, packaging design, profile programmes, logotypes, pictograms, exhibition design, web design, animation, illustration, photography, poster design, album covers, typography, book design, and visual identities.[7][8]

Gábor Palotai's design has rendered him many awards over the years and has been the subject of several books, among which Maximizing the Audience (Ginko Press 2000)[9] "best illustrates the studio's output", while his own book 111 Posters (Gestalten Verlag 2006)[10] displays "Gábors strongly typographic poster art, with works created primarily for cultural institutions".[11] Gábor Palotai has also held several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe.[12]

Awards

Bibliography

Exhibitions

During the years Gábor Palotai has had many solo and group exhibitions. Examples:

Represented

Books published by Gábor Palotai

  1. Gábor Palotai: Maximizing the Audience (The Book) Gingko Press (2000) ISBN 978-91-973912-3-8, C3 Gallery
  2. Gábor Palotai: Maximizing the Audience (The Animated Book). Gabor Palotai Publisher 2000 ISBN 91-631-0594-2
  3. Linda Rampell: Zoo. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2000) ISBN 978-91-630-9945-8
  4. Linda Rampell: Designatlas. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2002) ISBN 91-631-3399-7
  5. Gábor Palotai AM MU NA HI. American Museum of Natural History. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2002) ISBN 978-91-631-2757-1, Hungarian House of Photography in Mai Manó House
  6. Code. Lars O Ericsson och Linda Rampell. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2003) ISBN 91-631-4276-7
  7. Claesson Koivisto Rune: The Models. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2005) ISBN 978-91-631-6650-1
  8. Odysseus. A graphic Design Novel by Gábor Palotai. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2007) ISBN 978-91-631-6651-8
  9. Gábor Palotai: 111 Posters. Gestalten Verlag (2007) ISBN 978-91-976557-0-5, Die Gestalten Verlag
  10. Linda Rampell: Designdarwinismen. Gabor Palotai Publisher 2007 ISBN 9789197655712
  11. Linda Rampell: Freud med skalpell. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2008) ISBN 9789197655729
  12. Linda Rampell: Designatlas. Reissue. Gabor Palotai Publisher (2013) ISBN 978-91-637-3973-6

Examples of references

References

  1. ↑ Peter Zec (ed.) Who's Who in Design, The Leading Designers of the World, p. 276 (2004) ISBN 9783899860023
  2. ↑ Marta Almeida (2012), pp. 50–51, NOVUM July 2012 ISSN 1438-1753
  3. ↑ Axel Mörner (2014), pp. 4–9, Dagens Industri Weekend March 7, 2014
  4. ↑ AGI http://a-g-i.org/member-work/profile/377
  5. ↑ Gabor Palotai Design http://www.gaborpalotai.com
  6. ↑ Nordic Graphic Designers. Arvinius Förlag, 2011. pp. 128–135 ISBN 978-9185689224
  7. ↑ Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter, eds. (2003). Design Graphique Au 21e Siécle (Graphic design for the 21st Century). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. pp. 230–235. ISBN 978-3-8228-1605-9.
  8. ↑ Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris (2008), Basic Grids pp. 3, 86–89, 148–151,160–161, AVA Publishing 2nd Edition 2012 ISBN 978-2-940411-92-4
  9. ↑ Gábor Palotai: Maximizing the Audience (The Book) Gingko Press (2000) ISBN 978-91-973912-3-8
  10. ↑ Gábor Palotai, 111 Posters (2007) ISBN 978-91-976557-0-5
  11. ↑ Peter Gyllan, (2007), pp. 62–65, NOVUM June 2007 ISSN 1438-1753
  12. ↑ Miklos Peternak, "Gabor Palotai", Center for Culture & Communication, c3, Budapest http://www.c3.hu/galeria/maximizing_the_audience/index_en.html

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