This poster/art print is a calendar for the year 2024. The circular layout enables you to see the whole year at once, and feel the existential dread as you fill in the circumference one day at a time. This is useful for noticing approaching events, like birthdays, vacations, or deadlines.
The calendar is available for sale on my Etsy shop. Here’s the listing link.
I originally designed the calendar to be read counterclockwise because that’s what makes sense to me, but I made two versions. Clockwise starts with January at the top and moves towards February to the right. Counterclockwise also starts at the top but moves to the left.
Whenever I visualize the date, I imagine my position on a circle. This circle represents the earth’s position in its orbit around the sun and proximity to each season. In my mind the top is the winter solstice (northern hemisphere), with the months progressing counterclockwise. I’m not sure why I visualize it this way. Maybe it’s because earth orbits the sun in a counterclockwise motion when looking down from solar north.
This calendar provides the standard day, week, and month info, but it also tracks the lunar cycle, the seasons (equinox, solstice, festivals), and the zodiac. I’ve also included earth’s perihelion and aphelion dates. These dates are based on UTC-6 time zone.
These are the sections of the calendar, starting with the outer ring and moving to the center:
- A bubble to fill in each day (also includes a symbol for solstice/equinox)
- a box for daily notes
- day numbers and names
- week numbers
- month names
- new and full moons
- astronomical zodiac
- star map of the zodiac constellations
- names and symbols of the astrological zodiac
- illustrations for each astrological zodiac
- the wheel of the year seasonal festivals
- arrows showing the direction to read the calendar (clockwise or counterclockwise)
- and at the center is the year (2024) and the time zone I based my dates on (UTC-6).