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Are you among those who cannot wait to close the terrible 2020 to move on to the new year? Or are you superstitious and afraid that 2021 will be even worse than the year that is ending? We do not take a position here, although we try to be optimistic. IS consumeristically optimistic. Therefore, in these last days of the year we have reviewed new calendars to hang on the wall or to put on a desk, functional or even simply beautiful to look at, without thinking too much about what will happen while we browse through them month by month. We selected 10 that we found especially remarkable, and they are these.
And if you’re superstitious and don’t think you should invest in a new calendar for next year, you can always recycle one from 2010, 1999, 1993, or 1982 (you could go further back, even to 1926, in case yours family had carried a calendar of that year) since from 2021 they were not leap and began on Friday.
The definition of calendar
The Treccani Institute, the one with the encyclopedia, has had its own small online store for some time where it sells a line of stationery items. They have a simple, essential design, which maintains a link with the main Treccani products. In fact, each of them shows a definition of the Treccani vocabulary: that of “notebook” in notebooks, that of “bag” in a canvas bag and that of “pencil” in a pencil box. Obviously in the calendar is the definition of “calendar”, and inside, page after page, are those of “January”, “February”, “March”, etc.
A calendar illustrated by Guido Scarabottolo
He is an illustrator and designer whose illustrations you may have seen on the pages of Internazionale or on the covers of books published by Guanda. His calendar for 2021, which is primarily a collection of illustrations to hang at home, can be purchased for example on the website of Bonvini 1909, a stationery in Milan.
(Guido Scarabottolo Instagram profile)
A feminist calendar
The one with the fanzine “feminist mythology” Chicks. Like a calendar for a fanzine, that is, an amateur magazine, it is made up of 13 loose colored sheets, held together by tweezers. For each month there is a different illustration linked to an important anniversary in the history of feminism for that month. For example, the August page tells the story of Franca Viola. It costs 10 euros and you can buy it on Etsy, just like the numbers Chicks. Overall, Etsy is a great place to look for an illustrated calendar if you want to have a different one than the ones you usually see – many illustrators use the site to sell postcards, prints, and calendars.
A calendar to waste time
Other young artists prefer Big Cartel, a site created specifically to open their own small e-commerce where they can sell crafts. This is the case, for example, of the Enter Press collective that created a calendar with “12 relaxed illustrations for an unproductive 2021”, following the philosophy that “a day lost is a day won!” If you want to follow this line of thinking in 2021, this might be the calendar for you. It costs 10 Euros.
A calendar of foxes
Teemu Järvi is a Finnish artist who chooses themes from the world of nature in his illustrations; In the case of this very classic calendar, the foxes, which huddle together in February to warm themselves, go out hunting in the summer months and in November they plunge into the snow. It costs 39 euros at Finnish Design Shop, an e-commerce that sells Finnish and Nordic design objects.
A calendar that can be reused
That is to say, whose translucent pages are intended to be used, once the month to which they are dedicated has elapsed, to wrap gifts. It costs 35 euros and is sold by the e-commerce site of Tenoha, a store of Japanese products in Milan. The illustrations of each month reflect what happens throughout the year: in February we eat oranges, in July we swim in the sea, in November the ginko biloba leaves fall.
Checcalendar
Since 2008 Alessandro Bianchi edits the blog Syntactic sugar, in which he writes reviews of books, series and television programs, personal anecdotes and deals with LGBT + culture. As of 2019, he also makes a calendar, the Checcalendar, which invites people to celebrate parties other than the usual ones: “the right ones, like Beyoncé’s birthday.” Each month is dedicated to a character, there is an illustration that portrays him – each month made by a different illustrator – and a story about him. In the 2019 Checcalendar the characters were “steers” with a story to tell, linked in some way to LGBT + activism. In the Checcalendar 2020, the characters were “divas”: from Jane Fonda to Mia Martini, from Anna Marchesini to Judy Garland. The Checcalendar 2021, like the previous ones, will be distributed in digital format month by month through the Patreon profile of Syntactic sugar, becoming blog followers for 1 euro per month. So in total it costs around 12 euros, and you have to print it, yes.
The September page in the 2020 Checcalendar
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One vignette a day
A cartoon of the New Yorker to be precise. It is not the most useful calendar, because it is not one of those in which you write above or the ones that allow you to quickly see how many Mondays are left at the end of the month, but it is probably the most useful to put you in a good mood and start the day. a laugh, at best. It is a box that contains a sticker for each day of the year, with the day of the month and the week indicated. If you forget it for a few days, you will have a feast of laughter.
A calendar of sources
It is a calendar that works on the same principle as the cartoon calendar from New Yorkeri.e. it needs to be updated every day, like once the watches were recharged. It’s part of its beauty: turning the page of a calendar day after day can be a small daily ceremony, which you can practice to have a moment in your day that doesn’t necessarily have a purpose or productivity. This in particular may appeal to graphic lovers because every day of the year is written in a different font, indicated on the back. It is German but has texts in English and costs 23.50 euros.
A perpetual calendar
Perpetual calendars are made so that they can be reused every year. In turn, therefore, they are not calendars to write, but furnishIn particular, and if you stick with it, they have the advantage that at the end of the year you don’t have to get rid of them. They are usually made in a similar way to the cartoon calendar of the New Yorker and that of the sources. We have repeatedly pointed out those designed by Enzo Mari for Danese, which are nevertheless quite expensive. A cheaper alternative – now you can buy it for 48 euros – is the Max 365 perpetual calendar designed by Massimo Vignelli in 1975 for NAVA. It measures 32 centimeters wide and 32 centimeters long.
Other very beautiful perpetual calendars can be found on Present & Correct, a British designer website that has been around since 2009 and sells stationery products designed by their handlers or found in the world’s often vintage stationery productions. For example, there is a red, Spanish, from the 1970s, to have on your desk; another green, quite similar, and a white one that should be adjusted once a month instead of every day. They cost more than the usual calendars, but they last forever.
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