Simple Numbers, Complicated Dates: 49 Innovative Calendar Design

It’s that time of the year again when we kick off our shoes from work and enjoy the festive season. As we welcome the year ahead, I’m sure most of us have made some kind of resolutions for ourselves.

Needless to say, many of us have been unable to stick to our previous resolutions to go on a diet or keep to an exercise regime, perhaps due our hectic schedules. What then, is more important than a calendar in order to manage time well and stay organized?

Unless you switch one, you will be looking at your new calendar for the new year for the next 365 days. Why not get a thought-provoking, creatively designed or aesthetic calendar that you can appreciate each and every day?

Here, we have compiled some of the best designed calendars over the recent years to let each of you have an idea on the variety of calendars that designers have came up with. Enjoy!

#1 @Oscar Diaz

This innovative calendar lets the ink from the bottle diffuses across the days of the month.

#2 @Alone-zino

A comic-inspired calendar.

#3

A unique calendar design in the form of a spiral.

#4 @Yanko Design

Welcome each new day by scratching off to reveal the date!

#5 @Fenyu

Interesting calendar where each month is a different traffic scene as viewed by a trucker.

#6 @Tim Pokrichuk

A unique calendar with a web-like design.

#7 @Carlos Coelho

Yet another spiral calendar with colors assigned to each individual day of the week.

#8 @Yurko Gutsulyak

Every date is made of matches.

#9 @Perpetual Kid

Enjoy pressing bubble wraps? You should get this.

#10 @Lindsey_muir

As you can tell, you have to turn to circles to represent the correct month, date, day and even the weather.

#11 @David Weik

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Peel off the label of each apple you eat and stick it to the date.

#12 @Jonathan Davies

A spectrum of color across the months.

#13 @Jennifer Daniel

#14 @Guilherme Pontes

A calendar that uses the Helvetica typeface and an enticing range of colors.

#15 @Gideon Dagan Design

A 3D structure as a calendar.