Thumb Calendar 2007

This is the 2007 edition.
UPDATE: See the 2008 EDITION

This is my submission to the Eliazar's Infodesign Challenge. I got inspired by Luis Pabon's design.

In my design, 1Q and 2Q are on one side, the rest of the year is on the other. The field of numbers is shared among the six months on each side. The header of each month is appropriately aligned to show the actual days of the week.

While keeping the size down to 8.4 by 5.5 cm (a common business card), the calendar (when used as shown below) still looks like a normal calendar and the size of the font can be as much as 11 pt.

Download PDF for 2007 here: www.u3i.info/calendar

Eliazar Cardenas later responded to Luis's and my efforts in his cool remix of our approaches.

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Adam Sporka says:

To make reading of a month easier, you can hide the numbers that do not belong to that month with your thumbs. The length of the month is color-coded, using colors that should be legible even by people with some kind of colorblindness.

April 2007:

To see the starts of the working weeks only, it's enough to hold the calendar in one hand.

Mondays of December 2007:

Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Julia Avina Photography [deleted] says:

Love this! Very creative. How do I get me a download of this so I can print it and laminate it for myself?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Sporka says:

Hi Julia, thank you very much! I have not prepared a PDF for download yet, but encouraged by you, I will :-). The link will appear on this page.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Joe Lanman says:

very nice :)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Sporka says:

Thanks, Joe! :-)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Sporka says:

The PDF for printing and laminating your own copies is ready here: www.u3i.info/calendar
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

jusantana_ says:

i'm gonna print and laminate it too!
great idea!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Julia Avina Photography [deleted] says:

Wow, your the best. I downloaded and printed it right away. I made these for hubby and myself. I hope you win, if I could vote, I would vote for you. Good luck in the contest.
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Adam Sporka says:

Thank you very much :-).
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jchinique says:

This totally rocks. Brilliant!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

eliazar says:

Fantastic Adam! This takes Luis Pabon's design to new heights and synthesizes a lot of the best ideas in the contest!

I love:

* 3 month splits--they really make Luis Pabon's design much more usable.

* How the compression and split allow for "thumbing"--I never saw that one coming!

* Color for linking month end dates.

* 11pt typeface.

* Rounded dayname rows

* The simplicity and minimalism of the design.

Not so sure:

* Absence of number columns (they help a lot).

* Thumbing hides the current month.

* Those "rails" around the dayname rows, they don't seem to add anything to the design.

* A new linking color just for February--the blue dayname row becomes one of the main visual statements of the design.

Criticism in kind is of course the best kind and so here's a remix of your design. Hope you like it. :)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Sporka says:

Thank you, Eliazar, for your comments. I see that I totally forgot to mention my thanks!! Sorry for that!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

sandra.d. says:

very creative and inovative!
thank for your so clever creation!
oOoOooO ;]]] oOoOoOo

*CALENDAR - YOUR CREATION*
csop2
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

deepfriedmario says:

whoa, interesting! though the end of the year is almost coming, i'm still going to use it for the rest of 2007. :D great work
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Sporka says:

Thank you! Don't worry, I'll make a 2008 issue :-)
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Lee Bennett says:

Adam - without question, I dub the 2008 version as the best pocket calendar design ever created. Assuming my office decides to make pocket calendars (I'm not yet sure they will), would I be able to arrange permission to use this design and, if so, how should I appropriately credit the design?
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

stephen (MixedMediaExpressions.com) says:

how the heck did you figure out the number layout, will it work for all years? genius job..
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Sporka says:

Thanks much!
Well, this works only for 2007. You need to re-shift the day-name rows for each year you're making the calendar for.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

chensamurai says:

Once again, Great innovation!

Your work was used in this article:
feedelite.com/2007/12/16/print-portable-thumb -calendars/
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

KnittySara says:

I've shown the card you gave me to a ton of people already. Such a clever idea!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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