Colorful Calendar Decorative Year Board by Ilana Seleznev is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Art and Stationery Supplies Design Competition Category.
IronArt Supplies· 2021
Colorful Calendar Decorative Year Board
Client: Studio RDD - Ilana Seleznev
A' Design Award Winner in Art Supplies Category
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About Colorful Calendar Decorative Year Board
The colors of the calendar cards bring happiness and positivity to every place they are in. It has bold wooden stand and it a reminder that time is as old as a thousand yesterday’s yet as modern as tomorrow. This Colorful Calendar can be customized to fit any shape color palette and branding. It was designed by a self-developed method called Math of Design Thinking Inside the Box.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Colorful Calendar Decorative Year Board is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Colorful Calendar Decorative Year Board is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Colorful Calendar Decorative Year Board is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main focus in designing modular calendars typically revolves around the following principles:
Flexibility: Ensuring that the calendar can adapt to different needs, such as varying work schedules, tasks, and project timelines. Modular pieces allow users to arrange and customize layouts to fit their workflow.
Aesthetic Appeal: Creating a visually engaging design that complements the studio's identity. This often involves thoughtful typography, color schemes, and layouts to make the calendar functional and decorative.
Functionality: Balancing style with usability. Key features include clear visibility, space for notes, and easy interaction, often with options like erasable surfaces or interchangeable components.
Sustainability: Employing eco-friendly materials and practices, such as recyclable components or reusable boards, aligns with modern design ethics.
User-Centric Design: Focusing on the user’s experience by providing intuitive and simple tools for organizing tasks, deadlines, and milestones efficiently.
Collaboration-Friendly Features: Modular calendars often support team collaboration with sections for shared tasks, group projects, and customizable formats to accommodate multiple users.
Self method - Thinking inside the box
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus in designing modular calendars for a studio like RDD would be to enhance efficiency, adaptability, and creativity within the workspace. Here's a detailed breakdown of the key goals and achievements typically aimed for:
1. Organizational Clarity
Goal: Simplify planning and task tracking for individuals and teams.
Achievement: A modular calendar enables easy visualization of schedules, deadlines, and priorities at a glance, reducing confusion and improving workflow efficiency.
2. Flexibility & Customization
Goal: Create a system that adapts to various workflows, team sizes, and project complexities.
Achievement: Modular components allow users to reconfigure the layout as needed, whether for daily tasks, weekly sprints, or long-term goals.
3. Aesthetic Integration
Goal: Design a tool that enhances the studio's interior while maintaining functionality.
Achievement: The calendar doubles as a design element, incorporating modern aesthetics, colors, and textures to blend seamlessly into creative environments.
4. Enhanced Collaboration
Goal: Foster teamwork and shared accountability.
Achievement: Sections for group tasks, team milestones, and updates make it easier to align everyone’s efforts and track progress collectively.
5. Sustainability & Longevity
Goal: Design with eco-consciousness and durability in mind.
Achievement: Using reusable, recyclable materials (like magnetic boards, dry-erase surfaces, or modular tiles) ensures the product lasts and minimizes waste.
6. Inspiration & Engagement
Goal: Motivate users to engage more with planning and organizing.
Achievement: The modular system adds a tactile, interactive element, making organizazion feel less like a chore and more like a creative process.
Overall Vision:
The aim is to empower users by providing a versatile tool that enhances productivity while supporting creativity, collaboration, and sustainability—key values in any dynamic studio like RDD.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
To produce more products that will win world awards with a unique method that I created
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Colorful Calendar has a bold wooden stand and brings happiness and positivity to houses and working places. This product can be customized to fit any shape color schemes and branding.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The default calendar colorful card dimensions are 10 cm in high and 15 cm in width.
- Tags
- CALENDAR, colorful, customization, date, design, gift, merchandise, modern, natural materials, office décor, office desk accessories, promotional gifts, Rosh Hashanah, stand, studiordd, table decoration ideas, time, wood, WOODEN
- Production Technology
- The calendar is made of recycled paper in different colors.
The stand can be made from wood or 3D printing. - Design Challenge
- The main challenges were to find the right materials for the product and a reasonable cost for it.
- Research
- Colorful Calendar was designed by a self-developed method called Math Of Design Thinking Inside The Box. The research focused on refreshing the physical calendar in homes and working areas in a way that will bring happiness and positivity.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration influenced by the designer's new thinking system methodology which she developed called The Math Of Design Thinking Inside The Box. This method guides designers on how to think and where to look in order to create innovative products in a systematic way.
In this particular design, the dividing function was used out of the six functions include in the method. - Project Duration
- The project was created in January 2018 in Israel and still active to this day
- Operation Flow
- The Colorful Calendar including twelve cards, one for each month, painted in a different color according to the selected color palette.
- Image Credits
- Photographer Aya Wind
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