Miniature 2013 Calendars, laser printed on acid free paper, with coated metal comb binding. Each measures around 3.5W x 8.5L” .
I created these tiny calendars as holiday gifts for friends and family at the end of 2012. Each calendar had a different set of photos — photos I sourced from each of the recipients’ social media accounts (though primarily Instagram). My goal was to create a personalized calendar for each person that featured photos from their adventures, traveling experiences, and everyday life from the prior year(s).
Technical Notes:
My knowledge and proficiency with graphic design software has vastly improved and expanded since these were created, 6+ years ago. This older project is a valuable point of comparison between a newer calendar design I created at the end of 2017. The 2018 photo calendars had the benefit of my much improved technical skills, and using Adobe InDesign I drafted the newer design in far less time, and much higher quality than it’s miniature predecessor. The 2013 calendar design was created from start to finish in Adobe Photoshop. I created a blank template with an empty square frame acting as a placeholder that would eventually contain the photo for each month. I formatted the text uniformly for each month on separate layers then painstakingly plugged in each one of the images to the corresponding month, hiding layers as I worked my way through the year. Each page was saved as an individual .jpg that I arranged onto 8.5x11” sheets to maximize the amount of prints per sheet and waste as little paper as possible.