WEEK 9

This week we began our research for calendar. Some questions that I asked when researching calendar were: what is a calendar? How many kinds of calendars is there? What is the function of the calendar? What is the history of the calendar? How have designers made calendars? This is what I found to be the most important statement to calendar:

A calendar is a system of organizing units of time for the purpose of reckoning time over extended periods. By convention, the day is the smallest calendrical unit of time; the measurement of fractions of a day is classified as timekeeping. The generality of this definition is due to the diversity of methods that have been used in creating calendars. Although some calendars replicate astronomical cycles according to fixed rules, others are based on abstract, perpetually repeating cycles of no astronomical significance. Some calendars are regulated by astronomical observations, some carefully and redundantly enumerate every unit, and some contain ambiguities and discontinuities. Some calendars are codified in written laws; others are transmitted by oral tradition.The common theme of calendar making is the desire to organize units of time to satisfy the needs and preoccupations of society. In addition to serving practical purposes, the process of organization provides a sense, however illusory, of understanding and controlling time itself.

Here are the different images of calendar that I found to be the most interesting from the eyes as a designer. How I develop the sketches for my calendar from here on out will need to be as visually interesting.