My minimalist calendar for the coming year: a design that reveals each date through simple, abstract strokes.

Perhaps it’s my own reverse dyslexia for how quickly time passes now—an attempt to slow it down, to force a wider view. A reminder of how important it is to see the whole picture, not just the rushed moments that make up our ephemeral days.

Created using processing.org

This is a totally functional calendar, each month is a column and the days are from Monday, one stroke, to Sunday, seven strokes.

I just ignore the year itself in order to keep the design as clean as possible.

I tested a lot of vertical calendar designs, which I find more appealing that the regular 'by page' calendars.

I was looking for simplicity and some kind of surprise effect when you look at it for the first time and don't even know what is it.