Design a calendar that fits on a card
Calendar card design by Joe Lanman
Elzr is pseudo-host to an interesting design “competition” to see who can design a 12-month calendar that can fit on a business card. [via]
It all started because my 48-year-old mom, bless her, can’t read small type very well. She has trouble using little calendar cards because the day numerals are so small and last time she complained I paused and empathized with her travail. The problem, it was suddenly obvious, was not only the marketing debris that encroaches upon every poor card but rather the quite wasteful scheme we use for representing a year—the same table with the same thirty-something numbers over and over.
There are some prerequisites to consider in this design competition however. Large type is necessary as well as having the entire calendar fit on a piece of paper the size of a business card (but the design can be slightly larger if it still conveys the information clearly). The calendar must be easily recognizable as a calendar and will have to be able to show month, day, date, and year all at once in a smart manner.
There have been some submissions so far and they are posted at Elzr. I like the one shown above best even though you can’t use the calendar to “count the days” consecutively (at least not in an easy way). Still, I think it’s an interesting way to display a full year’s worth of dates at once.
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