# 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 (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 [sv], 1983–1984. Gábor Palotai is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2002. 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, and in 2021 he received the Knight's Cross Order of Merit of Hungary.

## 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 (Ginko Press 2000) "best illustrates the studio's output", while his book 111 Posters (Gestalten Verlag 2006) displays "Gábors strongly typographic poster art, with works created primarily for cultural institutions". In his artist's book Odysseus – A Graphic Design Novel (2007), Gábor Palotai replaces the verbal with the visual. The book AM MU NA HI (2007) 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 (2017). Gábor Palotai has held several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe.

## Awards

* Merit Award "Prisa" 2025. The Association of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers.
* Red Dot Design Award 2024. Dynamic Poster Series. Gabor Palotai – Landscapes.
* Swedish Design Prize, Gold, 2024. We are Seediq. Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm. Visual identity, Exhibition design.
* Swedish Design Prize, Peoples Choice, 2024. Wine series. Videgård Wines. Packaging design.
* Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 / Association of Hungarian Artists and Designers
* Special Prize Oesol International Typography Awards South Korea 2023. Poster design. Skap – Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers & Authors.
* Swedish Publishing Prize 2023. Exhibition catalogue. Wetterling Gallery / Liva Isakson Lundin – Takt / Tact.
* Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best 2022. Poster design. Skap – Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers & Authors.
* Swedish Meal Literature Award / Årets Måltidslitteratur, Best Design 2021. Book design. Berättelser och recept by Erik Videgård.
* Red Dot Design Award 2020. Poster design. Restaurant Videgård Archived September 23, 2020, at the Wayback Machine.
* Swedish Book Art Award 2019. Vera von Toth – A beauty surgeon’s monologue by Linda Rampell.
* Swedish Design Prize 2019. Designer of the Year. Svenska Designpriset 2019.
* Red Dot Design Award 2019. Illustrations. Gabor Palotai – Cosmos.
* German Design Award 2019 Nominee. Poster design. Livsdal of Sweden.
* German Design Award 2019 Nominee. Poster design. Neon Art Gallery.
* Hungarian Design Award 2018. Visual Identity. Livsdal of Sweden.
* Red Dot Design Award 2018. Poster design. Neon Art Gallery.
* Red Dot Design Award 2018. Poster design. Livsdal of Sweden.
* Red Dot Design Award 2018. Poster design. Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* German Design Award 2019. Special Mention. Poster design. Gabor Palotai – Zoo
* German Design Award 2019. Winner. Poster design. Contempo Art Auctions
* The Golden Egg Award / Guldägget 2018. Diplom. Visual Identity. Livsdal of Sweden.
* German Design Award 2018 Winner. Poster design for the book "The Shopmodern Condition" by Linda Rampell.
* German Design Award 2018 Special Mention. Poster design. Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* Golden Drawing Pin / Aranyrajzszög díj 2017. Lifetime Achievement Award.
* Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best 2017. Poster design. Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best 2017. Gabor Palotai – Zoo Illustrations.
* Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best 2017. Poster design. Gabor Palotai – Zoo
* Red Dot Design Award 2017. Poster design. Contempo Art Auctions
* Red Dot Design Award 2016. Poster design Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* Red Dot Design Award 2016. Poster design for the book "The Shopmodern Condition" by Linda Rampell.
* Swedish Book Art Award 2016. Facing Heaven by Erik Videgård. Natur & Kultur.
* Red Dot Design Award 2016. Product design. Thriller (collaboration with Anna Kraitz).
* Swedish Design Prize 2015, Gold medal. Svenska Designpriset 2015. Book Design. Facing Heaven by Erik Videgård. Natur & Kultur.
* Cultural Award of Stockholm City. 2015.
* German Design Award 2015 Nominee. Poster design. Violin and cello concerto at Berwaldhallen.
* German Design Award 2015 Nominee. Record sleeve. Oddjob – Live in Bremen.
* German Design Award 2015 Nominee. Corporate and Brand Design. The Mobile Exhibition Lab.
* Red Dot Design Award 2014. Poster design. Violin and cello concerto at Berwaldhallen.
* Red Dot Design Award 2014. Record sleeve. Oddjob – Live in Bremen.
* German Design Award 2014 Nominee. Poster Design. Reflex Architects.
* European Design Awards (Silver) 2013. Poster Reflex. Reflex Architects.
* Red Dot Design Award 2013. Corporate design of the Mobile Exhibition Lab. Swedish Travelling Exhibition. Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* Red Dot Design Award 2012. Poster design Reflex. Reflex Architects.
* Red Dot Design Award 2012. Book design Claesson Koivisto Rune, On Yellow. Skandium, London.
* German Design Award 2012 Nominee. Corporate Design. Swedish Travelling Exhibition.
* German Design Award 2012 Nominee. Swedish Travelling Exhibition, Annual Report.
* German Design Award 2012 Nominee. Book Design. Linda Rampell: Freud med Skalpell. GPP.
* German Design Award 2012 Nominee. Record Sleeve. Leucocyte. Esbjörn Svensson Trio. The ACT Company.
* German Design Award 2012 Nominee. Corporate Design. Sollentuna Shopping Centre. Steen & Ström.
* Red Dot Design Award 2010. Record sleeve Leucocyte. Esbjörn Svensson Trio. The ACT Company.
* Red Dot Design Award 2010. Book design Freud med Skalpell av Linda Rampell. GPP.
* Red Dot Design Award 2010. Annual Report of the Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* Red Dot Design Award 2010. Corporate design of the Sollentuna Shopping Centre in Stockholm. Steen & Ström.
* Red Dot Design Award 2010. Corporate design of the Swedish Exhibition Agency (Riksutställningar).
* German Design Award 2009 Nominee. Book Design. Function Rules. Ergonomi Design.
* German Design Award 2009 Nominee. Book Design. Gábor Palotai Odysseus a Graphic Design Novel. GPP.
* Red Dot Design Award 2007. Book design Gábor Palotai Odysseus a Graphic Design Novel. GPP.
* Red Dot Design Award 2007. Book design Function Rules. Veryday (former Ergonomi Design).
* Red Dot Design Award 2005. Poster design Made in Sweden. Svensk Form.
* Red Dot Design Award 2003. OP Vodka. V&S Group.
* Red Dot Design Award 2003. Book design Gábor Palotai AM MU NA HI. GPP.
* Red Dot Design Award 2003. Book design and DVD Gábor Palotai Maximizing The Audience. GPP.
* The Golden Egg Award (Guldägget) 2006 (Swedish Communication Agencies) for the exhibition poster Estonia.
* Kolla (Design Award) between 2000 and 2009 approx. 6 different.
* Swedish Book Art Award between 1990 and 2013 approx. 20 different.
* Core International Design Award 2002 for the design of the OP Vodka. V&S Group.
* The Golden Egg Award (Guldägget). Silver. 1987. Christmas packaging design for Hennes & Mauritz (H&M).
* Excellent Swedish Design Prize between 1985 and 2002 approx. 25 different.
* KW Guller Stipendium, 1985.
* Kycklingstipendiet. 1985.
* 2nd. Graphic Design Biennal in Hungary, Békéscsaba. 1980. Special Prize.