Timea Andorka is a professional graphic designer working in Hungary with a strong inclination towards traditional crafts which she tends to combine with current techniques. Her work finds connections to the world of ideas and creativity – she is designing books, exhibition identities, theatre posters. She is deeply interested in the history and theory of typography. Over the last five years she was employed as a senior graphic designer in various exhibition halls including Kunsthalle, Budapest. Now, she is a freelancer.

Utopia and Collapse book by Andorka Timea Utopia and Collapse documents the rise and fall of Metsamor, the Armenian atomic city. It brings together a history of the place and a photographic research with some academic essays. Metsamor’s architecture is a unique example of an Armenian variety of Soviet Modernism. Among the topics discussed are Armenia’s cultural and architectural histories, the typology of Soviet atomograds and the phenomenon of modern ruins. This book, based on the multidisciplinary Rethinking Metsamor research project, for the first time tells the city’s story and reveals what lessons can be learned from it.

Optics and Chromatics Exhibition poster by Andorka Timea The title Optics and Chromatic refers to the debate between Goethe and Newton on the nature of colors. This debate is represented by the clash of the two letter-form compositions: one is calculated, geometric, with sharp contours, the other relies on the impressionistic play of colorful shadows. In 2014 this design served as the cover for Pantone Plus Series Artist Covers.

Lockdown Memories poster series by Andorka Timea During the pandemic, people read a lot at home. While scientists and artists worked to change the way people thought about the future. Timea Andorka's series of five posters was inspired by these ideas and discoveries. The posters are each based on a specially illuminated, unique piece of her book art that references these ideas. They are complete with short quotes on climate change, the Blm movement, the discovery of Mars, the coronavirus crisis and the future of humanity. In the posters, recycled books symbolize both classical knowledge and the need to reinterpret outdated knowledge.

The Galimberti Exhibition Catalogue by Andorka Timea The graphic world of the exhibition catalogue was inspired by the closely intertwined lives of the painting couple (Valeria Denes and Sandor 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 book was published in two separate volumes, in English and Hungarian. The cloth bound covers are protected by a dust jacket that can be opened into a poster, the Hungarian edition featuring a painting by Valeria Denes, the English edition by Sandor Galimberti.

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