Creative
As much as they are useful for keeping track of time, calendars can also represent a great addition to successful company or self branding and promotion. They usually come within company packages but they can also be distributed as standalone pieces at fairs, conventions, or other forms of specially organized occasions and events. Whatever is the case, we made a list of 31 innovative, unique, and inspiring designs we found recently on Behance network in order to get you inspired just in time before the new year.
Dorogaya magnetic calendar
Awarded a bronze prize at Kiev International Advertising Festival ‘08. Has 31 days of months, just in case, and month names are abbreviated to three letters. There are also special chips like “Dead line”, “Arrival”, “Drink day”, etc.
Calendar made of matches
Each page represents one month and it looks like a comb made of matches. The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe.
Color coded calendar
Colors represent the mood of the current month.
Status calendar
What are you doing today? Incorporates popular social media theme.
Daily hours of sunshine calendar
Daily hours of sunshine calendar
A calendar that displays the daily hours of sunshine 30 years ago, projected onto the year of 2008.
Pershing calendar
A stylish calendar with great photography inside.
Helvetica calendar
A possible paper manufacturer edition with accent on Helvetica typeface.
Wall calendar
A promotional calendar for Spicers, and Australian paper merchant. Idea realized by four photographers, one for each season. Entire piece is left loose, unbound, folded down, and packed between two embossed pieces of boxboard held together with a rubber band.
Oh my God, it is a calendar
An interesting conceptual piece of a calendar.
An apple a day
Plain old apple a day calendar with interesting typography.
Color calendar
The calendar is entirely made of transparent plastic using a silk-screen print – 12 color + silver. In the process of turning the pages bright colorful ornaments are formed and they were created by applying the design motifs of Ukrainian decorative art.
Office calendar
A unique and very interesting calendar with months and days coming out of a stack. Nicely done.
Flip book calendar
Small format calendar in a form of a flip book. Very interesting.
Spiral calendar
Days and months forming a colorful spiral.
The foreign policy calendar
A blended concept of current affairs, political affairs, maps, the world and leaders into a one rounded piece.
Spinhex industrie calendar
A great concept and even better packaging makes this calendar very stylish.
Plant it green calendar
A nice flower resembling design with a green in mind.
Bodoni typographic calendar
Nice typographic idea.
Split personality calendar
A calendar going through rough times of split personality. Great artistic content.
Circular calendar
The month that ends up in between the stand indicates the current month. It is easy to use, simply slide out, rotate, or slide in and you can even write reminders or events on empty space.
Moon calendar
Very interesting concept of light being used to mark the current day and month.
Paper Co calendar
An innovative approach used on desktop calendar. Days done in a form of stamps which can be torn away.
Standing cards calendar
A calendar made of cards with printed days for each month. Made for Zorrozua and Associates.
Diamond calendar
What can we say except a woman’s best friend.
Living calendar
Large pointer shows current day, little pointer shows the current day of week, and in addition, calendar dates of state holidays, religious events, momentous days and interesting dates, are marked too.
Napkins calendar
Great for not so good or in other words crappy days. Just kidding, it is a really nice concept.
Environmental calendar
A desk calendar made of 100% recycled paper product with focus on reducing your carbon footprint.
Que calendar
Que is an executive fashion brand which products are minimalistic with very fine details and avant-garde at the same time.
Stuff on paper calendar
Letter-pressed in one color with text on each page being from fortune cookies.
Studio calendar
A calendar design project for a studio.
Adekta calendar
A nice calendar with a month changing mechanism.
Design Informer on November 11, 2009
Very nice collection. Good job. Thanks for submitting to the Design Informer.
marti garaughty on November 12, 2009
What an awesome compilation. With 2010 just around the corner, this should inspire a few people to think way outside the box!
xozan on November 13, 2009
I Plant it green calendar !!! Most impressive!!!
http://www.xozan.com
Azizuan Aziz on November 14, 2009
Most of them I never seen before. Creative piece of art!
Mike Chanter on November 14, 2009
Inspiring examples – thanks for the research.
Decent Weblog on November 14, 2009
Love the collection. Very inspirational post
Graphics Designer on November 26, 2009
Amazing collection, very creative … I like the status calendar.
thornor on November 30, 2009
Nice collection! Many of these calendars are very eye-catching (I especially like the magnetic calendar). The only drawback is that most of them go too far to stand out and end up being impractical. Although there is a time and place for design to rule over function, most of the time there needs to be a delicate balance maintained. For instance, the magnetic calendar is incredibly fun and unique but maintains functionality, with the exception that it is limited to use on metal objects.