Good Evening And Welcome To The First Day Of Grindmas.
Today, we’re celebrating Twelve Months A-Planning with a brand new 2023 calendar. I have eleven things to show you tomorrow, ten on Saturday, and so on. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
The calendar is a simple enough idea but one which doesn’t conform neatly to regular grid alignments. 365 doesn’t divide neatly by 12 or by 7, but weeks and months are how we organize our days and our lives, so we have to do our best. Tinkering with these groupings led me to the staggered structure here, which in turn suggested a series of building facades.1 A few dozen trees and scale figures later, voila.
Check out some hi-res details below:
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “Where can I get one of these great calendars for everyone on my holiday shopping list?”
Great news: there are two ways to do this!
First up, at this link right here you can purchase a printed copy to be delivered straight to your door. These cost around $20 each to print, plus some minor (but non-zero) overhead. The $35 price point leaves around $10 per calendar to be split three ways and donated to some great organizations. (See this post for more details.) I’ll be donating all the profits no matter how the math shakes out, so if people buy a lot of calendars that ‘$10 per calendar’ figure will probably increase a bit.
And if the print above doesn’t fit your home and/or your budget, here’s option two. This link will take you to a Google Drive folder with a super-high-resolution .png of the calendar, which you can enjoy digitally or print out on the plotter at work. It’s the exact same file that I uploaded to the printing service earlier today, so you’re not missing anything.
I live in the US and have a predominantly English-speaking, North American audience and the calendar formatting, labeling, and decoration reflects that. That said, if you’d like to see a version with different holidays and cultural references, send me an email and we’ll see if we can figure out a good solution. Even better, if you’d like to remix or reinterpret the calendar, send me an email and I can forward along the working files.2
And there we have it, the first day of Grindmas in the books. Tomorrow’s post will be longer and probably arrive earlier in the day. After that, who knows?
Keep Up The Hustle
THA
There’s a joke in here somewhere about Pope Gregory being the first to break up the massing…
If you’d like to change nothing at all, print and sell a bunch of copies, and keep the profits all to yourself, I can’t really stop you. But I promise I will be Very Annoyed and I may haunt you in the afterlife. Why risk it?