my calendar is done in the style of Andy Bell meets Bauhaus (in the style of El Lissinki). The similarities it holds with my design inspiration is the use of an analogous palette of orange and golden yellow, the use of straight lines and geometric shapes, and the implementation of somewhat odd, oblique geometry. my favorite thing about the designs of the Bauhaus was that although all the lines seemed to follow a grid, the grids intersected at all sorts of different angles-- not just 90 and 45 degree angles.
when Lissinki was designing, masking tape was about as cutting edge as art technology got. Now thanks to art-making programs that utilize vectors, we are able to arrange geometric shapes at specific grids, using unlimited scale changes and opacity trickery. So to give Lissinki's approach a more modern feel (as well as incorporating my aesthetic) i pushed this idea as far as i could. I also put a lot of blind faith in the idea of Gestalt, meaning that rather than design the calendar page by page, i designed a large "background" knowing that if [i]that[/i] looked good, then any zoomed in piece of the design would look good too. Regrettably, some portions got a little too busy when zoomed in on, but considering the overall concept of the calendar, it's a necessary evil.
