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.

Designer: Sebastian Bergne

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.

Designer: Hiroyuki Miyake

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.

Selling Price: 9.95Euro

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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.

Selling Price: $9

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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.

Designer: Cho Hee Ha

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.

Manufactured by Details Products + Ideas, ‘Gregor’ is currently available in the 2011 edition.

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!

Selling Price: $28

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!

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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.

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.

Designer: Sebastian Bergne

Selling Price: £45

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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.

Designer: Sharad Haksar

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!

Selling Price: $12

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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.

Selling Price: $12.5

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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.

Designer: Agustín Zea

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.

Seriously, we’re expected to schedule everyday, rather than merely knowing the date. And I believe the God thinks so, too. Look at the Crucifix Calendar; it’s a manually-operated calendar, and everyday, you need to change its date.

The concept behind the ‘Memo Calendar’ is quite simple. In the designers’ opinion, a day without any plans is just as monotonous as a blank paper. To start every day with a detailed plan, you must need a calendar that reminds you of daily dates. So what will it be tomorrow, an important meeting or needed reading? Think of it.

Designer: Studio 8

Though electronic calendars save us much trouble to find out the exact dates, it is gradually found to be dull. In that case, why don’t we turn to the Perpetual Wooden Calendar? As the new calendar combines the advantages of both electronic calendars and paper calendars, it shows date in a manually-operated and accurate way. Isn’t it interesting?

Designer: Enzo Mari
Selling Price: $149
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Kooky! As time passes, the ink calendar by Spanish designer gradually conveys dates on a special paper, with the ink running through the tubes as thin as capillaries. Each month uses a different color ink, green for spring, orange/red for summer and dark blue for winter.

Designer: Oscar Diaz

The wooden calendar cards, from Columbia, can absolutely present the functional aesthetics. Using the ragged wooden sculpture cards to denote current date and month, the simple calendar fits your workplace perfectly well.

Designer: Qaaim Goodwin

Twitter has become one of the most popular websites nowadays, and the new design has just applied the “twitter” concept to calendar. Compared with Twitter, the calendar is more concerned about what you will do today rather than what you are doing now.

This is an integrated design which combines calendar and clock into one product.
The date and time-marks are printed on the paper roll. With the rolling of the paper, you are goanna read both the date and the time with the pointer.

Designer: Yuliya

Printing calendar on napkins can offer a interesting calendar. In order to make sense, you have to use one piece of napkin each day, only one, no more, no less.

Designer: Stas Aki

This calendar is actually a combination of 365 matches; accordingly you can ignite one match each day. One day one match. This kind of design can remind you to value time.

Bubbles are generally used in industry package to avoid product damage. But, as is known, these bubbles are also good toys. This calendar comes with many bubbles each of which with a date printed on it. You can squeeze one bubble per day. Remember, only one.

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Record every serious and trifling things on the wallpaper with a calendar printed on it and then, at the end of the year, you can go through all you did during the past year easier.

Designer: Christiaan Postma

Bore a hole in the middle of the calendar; you can get the time through the papers. However, the paper frame will be thinner and thinner day by day.

Designer: Henk Stallinga

This weird board is imbroglio, and you can’t read anything without the lens. Just put the lens on it, you will get the number from 1 to 31.

Yes, you’re right! It is a calendar. But you have to move the lens manually every day.

Price: $10

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With the scale around the disc, and the dial on the cup, you gonna have a good calendar.

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Assembling these blocks in the right way, you gonna be manual calendar. If you wanna have the same happiness as a kid, you gonna like it.

Designer: Niels kjeldsen

The keypad of this calculator is the same as a normal PC’s keyboard. It gonna be more convenient.

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This time box is actually a calendar. You can use it just like tissues.
Moreover, every sheet is different from each other.

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Slide the slipping part to fit for date. This gadget could also be a stylish adornment.

Eat one chocolate everyday, then you can get sweet while checking date.

Follow the calendar and connect them, you gonna have a whole picture at the end of the months. Kids gotta like it!

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With months on one side and days on the other side, just find a band to connect the two sides, you gotta get a perpetual calendar.

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This project is from designer Susanna Hertrich. It is made from traditional calendar, but will shred everyday lapse to make you feel very nervous of time. In this way, you may work harder or you might be mad. Who knows!

Unfortunately, this is only a concept product rather than a real one. So, don’t be nervous!

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