Campbellsville University Perpetual Calendar, Campbellsville, Kentucky, USA
a desktop calendar, 2013
Calendars are tools that are used to measure and organize time. They are a necessity that permits individuals to function in society. Campbellsville University Perpetual Calendar was developed as a final project for Art 421 Typography during the last four weeks of the Spring Semester of 2013. In that project I was not only a Professor of Typography, Art Director, and Selector, but I also created six pages which are part of calendar: 1, 2, 3, 12, 21, and table of contents. Rather than create an electronic calendar I decided to produce an old school, paper format. We began with hand cutting and pasting typographic compositions consisting of numbers to 118 x 136 mm rectangles. This size is relative to the preexisting CD/DVD box that we used as a container to hold the pages of the calendar. There are sixteen pages in a box, with a typographic composition on each page for every day in a month. The 32nd page contains table of contents with all the designers’ names. These compositions are a result of playing with positioning, direction, scaling, overlapping and hierarchy of the characters. Not all designs are numerical: some are consisted of letters or symbols. For number 1 I used the number sign (#). This page serves as an “introduction” which invites the audience to immerse into engaging numerical and alphabetical compositions. Number 2 is colon (:) for which I used my font Serbiana. Number 3 is simple ellipsis (…), while the number 12 is a homage to the hammer and sickle. Number 21 is a humorous composition consisted of numbers 2 and 1 who fell into a box and got stuck.
2014: Selected for the 18th Exhibition of the Most Beautiful Calendars and Christmas Cards, ITD Gallery, Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad, Serbia. The 1st Place Award for the Best Desktop Calendar
2014: Featured on Dnevnik, a prime-time news program on the (national) Radio Television of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014: The calendar is included in the collection of the Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014: Campbellsville University Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Campbellsville University, Pence-Chowning Art Gallery, Campbellsville, Kentucky, USA
2015: Presented during my typographic workshop at Ohio University, College of Fine Arts, School of Art + Design, Athens, Ohio, USA
2015: Presented during my typographic workshop at Carson-Newman University, Art Department, Jefferson City, Tennessee, USA
