daniel m erdély

Dániel Erdély
graphic artist, inventor, designer, arts writer

I was born on 9 May 1956 in Budapest.

I completed my secondary-school studies at the Zsigmond Móricz Grammar School, specialising in Russian and English languages, then I entered a printers’ vocational school and qualified in 1975 as an offset print operator. After a year of compulsory military service, I began my studies in 1977 at the Hungarian University of Applied Arts at the faculty of advertising graphics, where my teachers included Sándor Ernyei and Ernő Rubik. A piece of homework I produced for a course by the famous professor, called the Spidron, caught the teacher’s eye, so I spent a great deal of time working on it even after graduation. This has eventually brought international recognition. During and after my studies I also regularly studied mathematics and geometry.

From the 1970’s, I was a regular member and active participants in the courses in creativity that my father, Miklós Erdély ran, including INDIGO. After completing my university degree, I built large wall decorations, so-called photo-mosaics with the creative group MURUS, which I founded with my father. Later on, I started my own venture with one of my ex-teachers, Sándor Ernyei, called aDaMStudió. This small firm offered corporate image design, organised exhibitions, published books, designed stamps and other publications, and also played a large role in the dissemination of the Internet in Hungary from 1996. For five years, we organised annual exhibitions called Internet.galaxis in the most prestigious exhibition halls of Budapest, which featured IT presentations and lectures for the general public. At the 1997 Media Boat event I received a media award “for Promoting Internet culture”.

I have studied English and have conversational Russian and French. I have obtained an official intermediate proficiency exam in English and a basic level one in French. I undertake design and development projects and publish articles on scientific and cultural subjects. In 1998, I gave my first lecture about my system of forms, the Spidron system in a foreign language in Jerusalem, at the 12th World Conference on Crystal Growth. Upon my return, I was invited to speak at a number of scientific forums. They included events put on by the Szeged department of the Hungarian Academy of Science and the International Symmetry Society. In 2000, László Beke put on an exhibition entitled Intuition-Inno