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Oct 15, 2023

Calendar Year Print

I made a calendar that helps you make the most of the year ahead by viewing all of the days in a single glance.

With the new year approaching, I’m updating my large calendar print for 2024 which allows you to view the entire year at a glance by way of making every month is visible on a single, large printed poster. It’s not meant to replace whatever calendar you refer to on a daily basis that likely has all the modern fixings of being mobile-friendly with automatic update pings, zoom integration, and connected collaborators. Rather, I use my large calendar to plan in broader strokes, get ahead of cultural happenings and commitments, daydream a little.

Here’s a few ways this calendar is different…

For starters, it’s rather large, and features every day of the year (plus a few extra days on either end) on a single page. It’s meant to be written on and each day allows ample room for noting specific personal events, milestones, meetings, reminders, etc.

The year is broken into three broad parts as represented by three visual columns:
1) Winter/Spring 2)Summer 3)Fall/Winter. Everyone has different personal needs preferences, but I like singling summer out for a few reasons. The warmer weather encourages outdoor activity for the most part. Work sometimes flexes different. If you have kids, there’s everything from sports leagues to sleepaway camps to vacations that need to get squeezed in. I like counting that pre-Memorial day week to that post-Labor day week as the summer season. On this calendar, that is one big visual chunk that can be tackled holistically.

Months are laid out to blend into each other because work trips and vacations and sports tournaments don’t necessarily stop when the month ends, and i always scoff a little when I must swipe or flip to the next month to see the conclusion of a certain event.

Months are also color coded for easy differentiation, and it was fun to elect a color that best summarized each month. There are various ways to do this from referencing birthstone hues, changes in nature, key holidays, but there isn’t a universally aligned to color for each months so I went with my gut. March feels green. November feels brown. April feels light blue. Maybe its just me.

I explored rearranging the layout of the seven days of the week such as showing the two days of the weekend together, but ultimately, our brains seems wired to read the weekly visual bookends of Sunday at left and Saturday at right so I opted for the traditional weekly layout.

Beyond the general layout, I have pre-loaded the calendar with various cultural, religious, nature-driven, and Federal dates. This part is highly subjective, and the hope is that an individual will customize the calendar to suit their needs, but I find it helpful and inspiring to plot some of the major stuff right out of the gate. Thus, some of the things you will find already plotted on the calendar are:
• all US Federal holidays
• Some religious holidays such as Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, etc.
• Some cultural holidays such as Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day etc
• Some major sporting events such as Baseball Opening Day, March Madness, the 2024 Euros and the Olympics as well as some of the others that tend to slip past me such as NFL Playoff weekend, the US Open, British Open, etc.
• Reminders of full moons, solstices, and prominent meteor showers and eclipses visible in the US
• Each month includes a listing of the fruits and vegetables that are generally ripe and ready during that time
• This probably requires a whole separate post, but I’ve recently discovered the concept of the Japanese microseason which subdivides the calendar into 72 nature-driven occurrences. I find many of these charming and spot on so I’ve added those. Now you can also look forward to “Parsley flourishing” in early January and “Rainbows hiding” in late November.

All in all, I find this large calendar-year-at-a-glance helps make the most of the year ahead.

34"” x 44”
$150 includes delivery in a cardboard tube.

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