calendar 2008 an investigation of color in art and design
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explanation Each month of this calendar takes its inspiration from the pairing of one work of a graphic designer and one work of an artist with similar color palettes. I chose to keep each hybrid form simple, and placed each on a gray background to emphasize the colors and to maintain continuity throughout the year. The level of gray changes with the seasons, with the darkest grays appearing in the summer months, and the lightest grays appearing in the winter months.
designers Lester Beall Max Bill Ivan Chermayeff Karl Gerstner Paul Rand Piet Zwart
artists Alexander Calder Stuart Davis Robert Delaunay Ellsworth Kelly Paul Klee Sol Lewitt
jan rand + davis
feb gerstner + lewitt
mar rand + kelly
apr bill + lewitt
may chermayeff + delaunay
jun bill + delaunay
jul beall + calder
aug gerstner + klee
sep zwart + calder
oct chermayeff + klee
nov zwart + kelly
dec beall + davis
This calendar was produced by Katy Harris at the Rhode Island School of Design, for the Spring 2007 session of Designing with Color taught by Aki Nurosi.
The type is set in Meta, designed by Erik Spiekerman, and printed with a Canon i9900 on double-sided heavyweight matte paper.