PALOTAI GÁBOR
Gábor Palotai is a Swedish–Hungarian artist, graphic designer. Since 1981 he has lived and worked in Stockholm. He studied and received his MA degree in graphic design at the MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design) in Budapest 1976–1980.
After his graduation he moved to Stockholm, where he continued his studies at The Royal Institute of Art, 1981–1983 and Beckmans College of Design, 1983–1984. Gábor Palotai has been a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2002. AGI unites the world’s leading graphic designers. Gábor Palotai is an honorary professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest.
Gábor Palotai is working across genres in both art and design. His studio, Gabor Palotai Design, has been 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.
ODYSSEUS
2006-2018
15:04
animated film
Film based on the graphic design novel ODYSSEUS by Gábor Palotai.
Music: Tamás Ungváry.
About the book. Odysseus is the first novel by the graphic designer and visual artist Gábor Palotai. Turn the pages of the book: there are no longer any black words on white paper. In fact there is nothing to read, only to be seen. The verbal is replaced by the visual. Skirting the surface of the paper and the beat of the black-and-white tells a story where the storyteller is you: you are your own Odysseus.
