Attila André Elekes

Attila André Elekes mastered his skills in banknote and stamp design under the guidance of his master, Károly Vagyóczky at the Graphic Art School of the Banknote Printing Company from 1987. He worked as a graphic artist at the Design Department of the Banknote Printing Company until 1993, contributing to the creation of the graphic elements appearing on some denominations of the banknote series of before and after the regime change, which also complied with contemporary requirements. After the declaration of the republic in 1989, he was commissioned by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank to redesign the circular inscriptions of the Hungarian forint and filler coin series.
His stamp design career began in 1988, and in the past four decades he has designed over 300 philatelic artworks both in Hungary and abroad. Simultaneously with his stamp design activities, he has collaborated with national and international visual communication agencies. He was in charge of the artistic production of almost thirty commercials, which were awarded the prestigious Epica European Film Grand Prix at the Dublin European Advertising Festival in 1999. He founded ArtTemis Graphic Art Studio in 2003 and still works there as a Creative Director. He worked as a graphic art consultant for the international creative team that designed the visuals for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Shanghai in 2007. He is often invited to and exhibits at the National Salon of Fine Arts and the National Graphic Designer Biennale. He was awarded the Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Hungary in 2022.
He has been Art Director of the Stamp Museum since 2017. He worked as the main visual designer of the HUNFILEX World Stamp Exhibition in Budapest in March 2022, as well as the visual designer and graphic designer of the temporary unique exhibition, Cabinet of Hungarian Stamp Collections, which is the most important assignment and recognition of his professional career so far.