Gábor Palotai


Gábor Palotai is a Swedish–Hungarian designer, artist, graphic designer and typographer. Since 1981 he lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. 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 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 College of Design, 1983–1984. Gábor Palotai is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale since 2002. AGI unites the world’s leading graphic designers. He is also a member of :sv:Svenska tecknare|Svenska tecknare, :sv:Konstnärernas riksorganisation|Konstnärernas riksorganisation, and since 2015, the :sv:Statsheraldiker|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

Gábor Palotai is working across genres in both art and design. His studio, Gabor Palotai Design, is based in Stockholm, Sweden, since 1987. During the years, his noted world of visual art has been realized in different media: His works operate with a holistic concept of visual culture and therefore his artistic and design practice is completely intertwined. Reflecting his expanded understanding of graphic design, in his consistently formulated oeuvre, besides conventional formats and media, other, hardly classifiable or less common genres are present; such as conceptual photography, graphic design novel, printed textiles, non-narrative digital motion pictures or even public plaques. Gábor Palotai works on a broad range of commissions, art and design projects within the field of visual communication such as corporate design, visual identities, packaging design, profile programmes, logotypes, pictograms, exhibition design, web design, animation, illustration, photography, poster design, album covers, typography and book design. 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 "best illustrates the studio's output", while his book 111 Posters displays "Gábors strongly typographic poster art, with works created primarily for cultural institutions". In his artist's book Odysseus – A Graphic Design Novel, Gábor Palotai replaces the verbal with the visual. The book AM MU NA HI is dedicated to his photography. Gábor Palotai's long-standing project on art-patterns has been realized in independent works of art, textile design, products such as porcelain, and in his latest artist's book ZOO. Gábor Palotai has held several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe.

Awards

During the years Gábor Palotai has had many solo and group exhibitions. Examples:
  1. Gábor Palotai: Cosmos. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  2. Gábor Palotai: Zoo. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  3. Linda Rampell: Designatlas. Reissue. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  4. Linda Rampell: Freud med skalpell. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  5. Linda Rampell: Designdarwinismen. Gabor Palotai Publisher 2007
  6. Gábor Palotai: 111 Posters. Gestalten Verlag , Die Gestalten Verlag
  7. Odysseus. A graphic Design Novel by Gábor Palotai. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  8. Claesson Koivisto Rune: The Models. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  9. Code. Lars O Ericsson och Linda Rampell. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  10. Gábor Palotai AM MU NA HI. American Museum of Natural History. Gabor Palotai Publisher , Hungarian House of Photography in Mai Manó House
  11. Linda Rampell: Designatlas. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  12. Linda Rampell: Zoo. Gabor Palotai Publisher
  13. Gábor Palotai: Maximizing the Audience. Gabor Palotai Publisher 2000
  14. Gábor Palotai: Maximizing the Audience Gingko Press , C3 Gallery

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