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Calendar 2021

A quiet, nature-inspired calendar: soft, painterly illustrations of mountains, leaves, sun and water, one for every month.

Pages of the 2021 calendar pinned to a warm brown wall
Project
Individual
Year
2021
Tools
Digital illustration
Format
Wall calendar

The brief

A wall calendar that feels calm on the wall: each month is a small illustration of nature in that season, with a light date grid underneath.

My role

I drew all twelve illustrations, hand-lettered the month names, and designed the date grid and layout.

Twelve months

Each illustration is reduced to a single subject (layered mountain peaks for January, a glowing sun for July, leaves, waves and hills for other months) painted in soft, layered colour. The month names are hand-written in a light script, and the date grid stays thin and quiet, so the illustration always leads.

January page with a hand-painted nature illustration February page with a hand-painted nature illustration March page with a hand-painted nature illustration April page with a hand-painted nature illustration May page with a hand-painted nature illustration June page with a hand-painted nature illustration July page with a hand-painted nature illustration August page with a hand-painted nature illustration September page with a hand-painted nature illustration October page with a hand-painted nature illustration November page with a hand-painted nature illustration December page with a hand-painted nature illustration

January to December

Reflection

Compared with the bold geometry of my 2022 calendar, this one is all about texture and softness. Designing both showed me how much a single change of illustration style changes the whole mood of the same object.

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