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Forgotten Saints Calendar

It’s starting to be calendar season again. At least for printers — most people don’t buy one until November… I’ve got my design done, the plates made, the paper cut, and am slowly letterpress printing the pages. I expect to have them assembled in mid-September. This year my friend Melissa is done early — she’s printed a calendar broadside celebrating forgotten Cathoric saints. She says “this calendar design was to recognize not only Catholic saints but as a nod to all those who do good deeds and their memory fades away — here is a toast to them!” See more here.

Calendar Progress

Several times over the past couple of months, I’ve played around with Japanese paper marbling (suminagashi) with my friend Suzanne. She likes to work very big — making covers for large journals — but I thought working small and incorporating my haiku would work well for me. I’ve begun experimenting with some of my colored Japanese paper (mostly a large stash of Moriki, made from Kozo). Here’s one of my tries to the left — I started with yellow paper, printed my evolving calendar design first, and then marbled. My plan was to do an all-letterpress calendar, as I’ve done in the past, but now I’m thinking I may do some months with letterpress designs and some incorporating other methods, like suminagashi.

200 Year Perpetual Calendar

Recently the Beast Pieces blog had a post about a 200 year perpetual calendar they printed letterpress. How does a 200 year perpetual calendar work?, I wondered. Unfortunately, the instructions at the bottom are in German, as is the information on the design firm’s website. But then I found this spreadsheet that shows there really are only 14 unique yearly calendars between 1900 and 2099, and then goes on to map each of those 200 years to one of the 14 unique calendars. This begins to help me understand how the German calendar works. Then I found a 10,000 year perpetual calendar with a nifty chart that lets you generate any calendar, without a computer. They both come from calendarhome.com, devoted to all things calendar.

Knitted Calendar

This knitted wall calendar, designed by patrick frey, counts down the year as you unwinding it stitch by stitch. There’s a video showing the year go by… (First seen here.)

Bakery Calendar

I’m sure if I wouldn’t make a pie with this calendar, but it’s a memorable promotion. I first saw it on swiss miss. But looking at it further, it’s a Photoshop fake, because the letters should be inverted!

Apple a Day

Yesterday while I was rearranging things at my studio, I ran across an advent calendar I made about 10 years ago for my sisters. I managed, when I got home, to find my note book of “ideas for the future,” and add it to the list, along with where I would find the one in my studio. List lover that I am, I like the idea of revealing something every day.
Still thinking about lists and time and calendars, I next went to read my email, and found a message from my friend Tracey with a link to “an apple a day calendar.” Here’s what the description says:

Here’s a quick and easy way to keep in tip top shape. Just peel the little variety sticker from every apple you eat and affix it to a square. Keep it interesting. Try a Belle De Boskoop, a Newtown Pippin, how about a Peasgood Nonsuch, or maybe a Turley Winesap.

What a lovely way to celebrate apples, the seasons, and a reminder to get to the farmer’s market to see what varieties are available as the year moves along!
See the calendar, empty and partially filled in, here.