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Monthly Measure Calendar

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Monthly Measure Calendar is a simple but practical hand-operated calendar, which uses a seven-angle star and a ruler with one serrated side to indicate thе day οf thе month аnd thе date. To change the date and week, you’ll need to move the star along thе ruler. As the dates аrе placed еνеrу centimeter, the calendar can be used as a ruler too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Measure Calendar

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Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake has put forward this Measure Calendar that features one centimeter for each day of the year. Moreover, the calendar can serve as a retractable tape measure as well so that you can make a really full use of it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Life Calendar

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Nearly all the calendars we see nowadays are creative, and obviously the Life Calendar is among them too. “How was your day?” is the first of the series, which asks the users to draw different pictures so as to record their various emotions. Even though you still need to do some work, you’ll actually find it much easier to document your life with a Life Calendar rather than with a diary. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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iPhone Calendars

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How popular is iPhone all around the world? Maybe we can get an answer via various gadgets that come with a same appearance as that of iPhone… Obviously the iPhone Calendar is a new product that joins the league. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Calendar Teabags

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Calendar and tea seem to be unrelated to each other. But Cho Hee Ha doesn’t think so, coz in the designer’s mind the teabags also mark the passing of time just as the changing seasons do. The Calendar Teabags includes a variety of tea packaged as the dates and months, so that you’ll also feel time passing by when you’re enjoying a cup of tea. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Knitted Wall Calendar

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Coming from German industrial designer Patrick Frey, ‘Gregor’ looks not that different compared with conventional ones. But when you want to leaf through the calendar, OMG, you need to unwind it stitch by stitch…That’s really interesting! Made from fiber, the knitted calendar will finally turn into a pile of thread. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Test Chart Calendar

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Obviously the designer has drawn an inspiration from the vision test chart to create this calendar. As days pass by, you’ll find it harder and harder to see the dates clearly. If you’re confident enough with your eyes, try it! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bakery Calendar

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Create an edible calendar with that rolling pin! Designed by Futura 2/2, the interesting Bakery Calendar might be a good gift for your buddies. Just for fun! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘An Apple A Day’ Calendar

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An apple a day…Of course that sounds familiar to everybody. But what we’re to argue today is not that famous song but an innovative calendar by Serviceplan. Designed for AOK health insurance, the calendar is actually a transparent tube that holds 28 to 31 apples, which correspondingly stands for a date of the month. As a result, you need to eat an apple everyday to get the correct date. Too bad this thing isn’t available on the market, but if you really love the idea as I do, you could make one with a tube and some apples.

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Ring Calendar

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Designed by Sebastian Bergne for Spunique, ‘Ring Calendar’ is a hand-operated wall calendar that asks the users to rotate the three different rings to get the correct time information. And these rings, laser-cut from MDF sheet, separately reflect the date, month and day. Though that sounds bit of troublesome, you’re expected to treasure every passing day as a result. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Camera Lens Calendar by Sharad Haksar

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The ‘Camera Lens Calendar’ designed by Sharad Haksar must have made every photographers who saw it here feel excited and they may even have the impulsion to DIY one such calendar with their own cameras. It uses the four rings to separately stand for the year, the month, the week and the date. But there’s no information about by which the calendar is powered. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Calendar Tape

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Printed with dates, the ordinary sticky tapes could do more things for us as they also doubles as a calendar, a diary, a planner and a packaging tape. Each pack comes in two rolls, one for days and the other for dates. So what are you waiting for? Come on and buy yourself one pack! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Puzzle Calendar

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Forget the tedious white and blue paper calendars on your desk and you should have a new try with the Puzzle Calendar! The design aims to make setting your daily schedules interesting. Instead of scribbling on the paper, you’re now asked to build these blocks to set or change an agenda. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Scratch those unhappy days off.

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What if you could scratch those blue days off and just remember the happy time? My dear friends, the sorrow we ever felt will surely fade away one day and may be the calendar will comfort you a bit before that. Inspired by the scratch cards, these calendars allow you to scrape any day off the paper. As a result, only those dates with a happy experience will be left and we do hope that whenever you look through the calendar, you will always think of the happy time you used to have. I agree with that famous proverb—time is always the great physician. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Google Calendar

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Google wishes you a happy new year with the specially-designed calendar. Nothing is really new about the Google Calendar, except that it is designed with a ‘Google’ logo. Yes, Google has stepped down from the screen and into your real life. It is as large as ordinary calendars, measuring 30cm long and 21cm high. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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