From Heather Lins Home: Get your year off to a capital start! Calendar sheets (5 x 7 in.) are digitally printed on birch veneer. The 2012 edition features all new typographic compositions, and we are keen to try mailing a month as a postcard.
Typography gets top billing on several calendars. On her Letterpress Wall Calendar (shown directly below), Kelly McMahon of May Day Studio printed each month’s page (on Mohawk Via Warm White, her go-to sheet) in a single pass, boldly combining linoleum for the calendar grid, wood type for the months, and metal type for the days and dates.
From May Day Studio: Kelly McMahon set herself the challenge of using type and linocuts she had on hand, rather than creating new elements. Sole exception: a new polymer plate for the backing sheet, for the big numbers (2012) and her tiny logo (at the very bottom).
From Pinkerton Design: A perpetual calendar for noting birthdays, anniversaries, etc. The botanical bounty was digitally printed at ColorGraphics in Seattle on an HP Indigo.
Colors make the month, and the mood, on several calendars in the collection. Techniques range from letterpress to offset to digital.
More from May Day Studio: On her Letterpress Hanging Calendar, Kelly McMahon features a ripple pattern in six somewhat seasonal shades: deep marine, crimson red, harvest orange, eggplant, ochre and moss.
And then there’s Alyssa Louderback’s crayon-inspired color-of-the-month calendar, which we featured when it was fresh off the press. It knocked our socks, or maybe our flip-flops, off.
Alyssa Louderback of Impressed Design puts her best fashion foot forward, with 13 letterpress passes on her calendar’s cover.
Hannah Berman of Pie Bird Press has created a Seasonal Bulbs Calendar, a quartet of large (8-1/2 x 14-in.) letterpress prints. And when we asked her about the script typeface on her calendar (below), she replied that she’d handwritten everything herself. (You may have seen Berman’s luscious yellow rose print here, thanks to kate spade new york.)
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From Pie Bird Press: Can you count the number of ink colors in these dahlias?
Where would we be without a production challenge? Penny Eversole of Pinkerton Design created a Mini Desktop Advent Calendar, with 24 little perforated doors. So far, so fun. But if you are Eversole’s printer, Girlie Press in Seattle, you want to think of an automated way to glue the back sheet, with the icons, to the front sheet, with the doors — without getting glue anywhere that could cause the doors to stick. The solution: Make a screenprint of the areas to be glued. Mighty tidy.
Nice touch: Eversole’s father and uncle both have December birthdays — and a seasonal icon that means something special to them, behind their doors.
And even if you aren’t invited to a New Year’s Eve gala, you can have a ball on January 1 with this calendar from Cummings & Good.
Browse the Felt & Wire Shop calendar collection here.
Watch your mail, Alyson! I put a number of “Year in Caps” calendar cards in the mail. Let me know how they work!