Clean and Simple Calendars (2013)

Annual update, back after taking one year off.  As detailed in the post for the 2010 set, I started making these when I couldn't find anything suitable online (most of the blank calendars on the web are formatted one month to a page, and nothing that I could find with a full year on a page was as simple and straightforward as what I wanted).

Federal holidays shown on the bottom, as always, but this time around no indication of paydays.

Another Custom Family Calendar

Another very very very custom calendar - see this post for the 2010 version.  Again designed with full bleed tabloid-sized sheets and different layouts for every page.  Again printed and distributed to all adult members of the family for less than what it would have cost to make a template-based calendar of a smaller size.

(There are more than twelve pages in the montage because several February variations were considered, including one featuring a picture of a trilobite I found over the summer near Delta, Utah.)

Clean and Simple Calendars (2011)

Annual update.  As detailed in the post for the 2010 set, I started making these when I couldn't find anything suitable online (most blank calendars on the web are formatted one month to a page, and nothing that I could find with a full year on a page was as simple and straightforward as what I wanted).

As always, federal holidays and paydays are shown, useful for planning and budgeting, especially if you're paid every other week on Thursdays.

Family Calendar, etc.

Tabloid-sized print with all birthday information on one side and a montage of all family members on the other.  I also produced a single-sheet summary of all family contact info as part of the project.

This was commissioned for a great-grandmother with 17 biological and adopted children and nearly three dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  Copies were sent to all the adult children in the family.

Completing the project required extensive collaboration in order to collect and organize four generations worth of names, dates, and photos.

Custom Family Calendar

A very very very custom calendar, with full bleed tabloid-sized sheets and different layouts for every page (including different orientations for several months).  All family images came from pictures taken during the prior year, except for the June and December "heritage" images.

Printed and distributed to all adult members of the family for less than what a template-based calendar of a smaller size would cost.

(There are more than twelve pages in the montage because two cover options are included as well as a mockup of a page for a 2011 calendar.)

Clean and Simple Calendars

 Updated each year around October. 

I started making these one-year-on-one-page calendars when I couldn't find anything suitable online.  There are plenty of sources for blank calendars on the web (probably thousands), but most are formatted as one-month-to-a-page.  Options for customizing content are also available, but nothing that I could find was as simple and straightforward as this.

The emphasis on federal holidays and paydays is due to the fact that I worked for the government at the time I started making theses, but it's still useful for planning and budgeting for anyone who's in the U.S. or on a biweekly pay plan.

Past years are available after the break, along with feedback from those that received these as part of what became an annual distribution tradition.

Book of Dates (1752-2111)

This booklet of dates started as a Java programming practice exercise.  I expanded on a small example program that would create a one-month calendar when a month and year were specified by the user.  Instead of one month, I had my program output a full 359 years calendars.

The raw data wasn't very usable, so I formatted it such that four years dates at a time would fit on a printed page.  In the outside margin of each page I specified the dates covered.  The position of this indicator is an indicator of itself - at the beginning of the booklet it is near the top of the page, but by the last page it has moved nearly to the bottom.

To complete the package I wrote up the results of some calendar research I had done, added a colophon and the Java code, and turned the whole thing into a PDF.