So, What do you think about this designs?

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As the design in itself is a very important factor, the layout also plays a major role in making it the outstanding one. So making sure of having an interesting layout is sure thing to a good design.

Lets see some of the most Innovative & creative calendars designed till date, to get a better understand and to know what limits designers go to create a unique & Outstanding one.

Magnetic Calendar - Easily customizable & fun calendar. Special appeal of this calendar is special chips, like “Deadline”, “Arrival”, “Departure”, five “Drink Day” and one “Don’t Drink Day”.

Designed by Serhiy and Igor Chebotaryov.

Dupont – Corian Calendar – A functional desktop accessory.

Timor Desk Calendar – Designed by Italian Designer Enzo Mari in 1967.

108 Timeless box Calendar – A Calendar which spans for 9 years with visual imagery flowing through a timeless box.

Matches Calendar – Its designed to signify energy and it surely does. This calendar has pages lined up with matches, signifying the number of days. Designed by Yurko Gusulyak.

Ink Calendar - This is an interesting one, u can also say its an interactive one made basically by controlling the ink flow onto the printed papers. Designed by Oscar Diaz.

Typodarium – This Typodarium tear-off Calendar showcases 365 different typefaces from fifty boundaries and designers from all over the world. At the back of every date sheet, you can find a small typed information on the type face. This might get boring for people who do not know type faces, but for people who know, its fun.

Perpetual Calendar – Designed by Gideon Dagan for MOMA in 1998. Th date is marked manually moving the metallic balls. It can be wall-mounted or used on a desktop.

Coffee Cup Calendar – Designed by Takeshi Nishioka

Tielen Perpetual Calendar – Designed by Sander Tielen from Netherlands.

A – Calendar – Designed by Sven Ellingen. This Calendar shows the hours of sunlight for each day for a year.

Symbol Calendar - Designed fully in Symbols and numbers, one would think its too confusing but its actually very simple. To find what day September 7 was, go up to the number 7 and look in the September row and there u find it.

Folding Calendar - This Calendar has a common grid of numbers for dates and a different sheet for the months. Designed by Luis Pabon.

Colour Calendar - Designed by Jonathan Davies. Each month is associated with a colour range, for example blue for January. Its pretty amazing to see the colour shades & tones vary as it moves forward in months.

Post-It Calendar - This is a very simple design layout. Each post-it has a day marked on it and beneath it a to-do list, where you can add anything and when leaving for work, make sure you peel it off  and take it along.

Step Perpetual Calendar

Vintage Calendar System - This wooden pice of work is an effective space saving Calendar.

Acrylic Calendar - This acrylic Calendar has a number of movable acrylic cubes, that can be adjusted manually to set the day, month and date.

Pershing Calendar - This simple calendar uses its white spaces very moderately and can easily make people wonder whether its a calendar or a brochure.

Circular Calendar - Designed by Entropia.

Helvetica Calendar - Designed by Effektive Design Agency.

Circle the date Stickers - This is a fun piece of idea. You can take these circular date stickers anywhere and even stick it on a project to mark its due date. Its not a standard type calendar which is restricted to wall or desktops alone, its fun to be taken around and use however!

Wallapaper Calendar - Desingned by Christiaan Postma.

Picture Calendar - The picture only calendar. Designed by Cecilie Ellefsen.

Chalkboard Calendar -

I would like to conclude saying, its ultimately a personal choice of  whether u like it or u want it. Its like saying, ”Wow!!!! That’s really an amazing design and i just love it” and there’s a difference saying, ” Its such a creative design, and i really want it ” see what i mean ?

A look into the History of some Popular Logos of Our Times.

Baskin – Robbins

These two logos were in use prior to the one currently used. They were designed by Carson –Roberts advertising agency in 1953, while the current one is designed by Ogilvy & Mather. The pink, brown polka dots and the classic type were incorporated in them.

The importance of the number 31 is used in all its logos indicates the number of flavours they served worldwide, though they now serve a lot more delicious flavours. The Baskin – Robbins actually started with their very own Individual Ice-Cream Parlours called Burt’s Ice Cream and Snowbird Ice Cream respectively. The latter one served 21 flavours and later when the two companies merged it became Baskin – Robbins, after the founders Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, and they brought the flavours to 31. We can see this number being emphasized in all their logos. The current logo features the number 31 so creatively fitted with its intials ‘B’ and ‘R’. The font has been transformed from Serif to a San Serif, making it fun & interesting than the boring straight Serif ones. The colour pink stands for the pink spoon given to customers when tasting samples.

Nestle

Nestle is one of the biggest brand known worldwide. It dates back to the 18th century when it started with powdered milk & later Nescafe, some of the popular products of nestle. A logo you could say hasn’t changed much from its former one, but with a touch of simplicity in it.

The name Nestle comes from the founders name Henry Nestle, which means ”Little Nest” in German. He started off with the logo on the left, in 1868, which was also his family emblem.

In 1868, he redesigned the logo with a nest and a few birds on it, symbolically ”The Little Nest”. He got a 15 year Patent in 1868 and when he retired it was registered by new owners of his company in 1875.

In 1938, the logo was re-branded from an Iconic Logo form to Combined Mark logo, by incorporating the text ”Nestle” on it. The shading was simplified from the former one.

In 1966, the logo was even more simplified and much clearer.

In 1988, the worm in the mother bird’s beak was removed and the fledglings became two instead of three. It is said that it was meant to better illustrate the activities of the company, no longer active only in nutrition, and to reflect the average modern family of two children.

In 1995, the logo was even more simplified with new meaning attached to it, like the tree represents an Oak and the birds thrushes.

It leaves me wondering, in future would they ever go for a re-branding? They do have a very strong identity, would they let go of it for a new modern one?

Animal Planet

The Animal Planet network decided to re-brand its identity by removing the earth & the elephant & came back with a loud bang of words. The words are made bolder & stronger & simplified.  It followed three shades of green, to symbolize jungle like. To add to the flavour, the letter ”M” is turned around, to pose like a sleeping animal or a fallen animal, could it be?

The new Logo made it sappearance on February 3rd 2008. The changes were done to match with their new shows of  Wilderness & to attract older generation of people as well. Its said that they are even thinking about, animals peeking from behind the letters, but its not materialized yet. The designers were asked to bring about a look of playfulness, instinctive, emotional, immersive and entertaining features.

Animal Planet is one of my all time Favourite channels. I personally like the new logo and was excited when i was its appearance on TV.

It helps the brand in making a trademark. Its categorized into the Symbolic/Iconic, the Type-based logos or a combination of symbol and type. None is whatsoever lesser than its counterpart. These logos are aimed at building long-lasting relationships with the public.

ICONIC type Logos

The Iconic logos are usually preferred by the companies, one because the icon alone could be used on their products, two because it alone can make its mark. Here are some examples to show you how powerful a graphical element is in a logo.

Leave a comment if you like this photos.

All comments and wishes goes to the Creative photographers who flashback us to olden days

Etrusia

50 Cents

Aneta

B-Photo

Cool Pic

Dusty Wall

Foto

Gullevek

Jenna Herman

Lucian

Monique

Andrey Vahrushew

Nick

Raaych

Simon Pais Thomas

Stefano Orazzini

Volar

Wolfram Schubert

Yanire

Borissov

Claudio

Drooper

Emir Ozsahin

Fish

Gilad

Iris

Julien Legrand

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Mikael

Misterkey

Mustafa

Onabibano

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Texma

Wazari

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After viewing this business cards you might start thinking about yours right? Thats true even i was thinking how to design mine

There are more than million business card designers, i selected only few from them… and later posts i will wirte about someother creative works done by web designers.

Creative CAT like Business Card

Business card looks like a Coffe Cup

Creative cool business card from a photographer

Real Estate Business card

Creative business looks like a wood chair

Business Card look like a Credit card from Work Labs

Awesome Business card from a Apparel Designer

Another photographer’s Business card

Creative business card with cartoons

Business card for a clothing company

Programmer Business Card

Circle shape Business card

Plastic Creative Business card

Creative Business card with avatar in it

Photography Business card

Business card looks like Burned. Creative from HOWL FIRE

Plastic Business card from Dreamtem Studios

Plastic Business card from a Developer

Business card made in Glass

Creative Business card look like Playing cards

Cool Cartoon Business card from a designer

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