Awesome Calendars

Ring in the new year with a trip to our National Parks. Only when you arrive at these scenic locales you’re greeted by Kaiju. Alternate Histories’ calendar features monsters like the Zombies of Zion and Creature of Crater Lake. Need more road trip monsters in your life? Check out their Wish You Were Here calendar.

Ring in the holidays with the best craft beers of 2022. GiveThemBeer’s annual advent calendar comes loaded with a dozen great cans from breweries like Lagunitas, Cigar City Brewing, Oskar Blues, and Bell’s. If your gift recipient prefers something a little stronger, they also sell whiskey, tequila, and vodka calendars.

This portable calendar lets you view the calendar for every month from now until 2056. Simply turn the wheel to the proper year, and it displays the dates lined up with their correct days of the week. Comes with a 4-foot length of paracord wound into a lanyard for emergency use.

Raise a few eyebrows with Brass Monkey’s tongue-in-cheek Hidden Agenda Planner, a cloth-bound daily planner filled with 366 days of random holidays and amusing trivia. What it doesn’t have is days of the week, making this book especially useful for procrastinators who might accidentally delay using it for a year or ten.

Did you remember to feed the dog? Did the kids brush their teeth? What about taking out the trash? Dreamfarm’s Membo offers a quick way to track daily tasks. Just check the board to see if today’s task has been done, and once it has, flip the tile. It comes with interchangeable icons, and you can download more here.

Created by illustrator Katheren Belle for Schoolhouse, this elongated wall calendar charts the waxing and waning cycles of the moon. It serves as both a unique piece of wall art and a useful reference for those who need to know moon phases like farmers, fishermen, and surfers. The print measures 30″h x 10″w.

Inspired by two previous Instructables projects, maker Wolspaw came up with the idea of building a truly unique calendar. Their machine uses a series of three rotating gears to display the current day and date, which appear as if by magic out of a bunch of seemingly random symbols.

Make every day awesome with this official LEGO desk calendar. The 11″ wide kit includes 278 pieces and instructions for building four numeric date cubes, a desk stand, and a businessman minifigure. Now, somebody needs to add motors to this and turn it into a clock.

Musicians, here’s a great way to keep track of the passing days. Ingrana’s perpetual calendar is inspired by the design of a classic modular Moog synth. Use the included patch cables to mark the day of week, month, day, and year. While it won’t make any sounds, you can press its keys.

Andriy Design’s desktop calendar is inspired by those vintage flip calendars which date back to the 1920s. Simply flip the day, date, or month modules, and it the next entry appears. It’s not available as completed product, but you can buy the files for laser-cutting from ArtHouseUA.

Planning a business? Tracking your child’s growth? Or maybe you just like to think ahead? If so, check out Workhow’s long-term wall calendar. It’s a large and durable calendar for 2019 to 2028 in a scroll format. You can even view 2 years at a time if you want.

Longshorts is back once again with its NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar. This lighthearted parody of pin-up calendars features “12 of the city’s most scintillating and good-humored yellow cab drivers.” A portion of the proceeds go to the University Settlement.

ThinkGeek partnered with demotivation specialist Despair Inc. to create this 2019 wall calendar. Each month comes with a demotivational poster, as well as important dates in geek history, such as Talk Like a Pirate Day and the NES’ release date.

Maker of shitty robots Simone Giertz is here with a not shitty at all product – a modern wall calendar designed to help her remember to meditate every day, but that can be used as a reminder and tracker for any sort of daily task or habit you want to maintain.

To commemorate the passing of time, Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya creates a tiny diorama every day from household objects like paper and food and figurines. He’s been carefully crafting his ongoing (and mighty) miniature calendar project since April 2011.

In 2018, you keep your appointments in your smartphone. In 2019, you’ll keep the really important ones in your F*cking Brilliant 12-Month Planner book. This cheeky organizer features stylish calligraphy, a gold foil stamped cover, monthly tabs, and plenty of swearing.

It’s exactly what it says on the cover. Longshorts’ New York City Taxi Drivers Calendar is a parody of pin-up posters and calendars, featuring 12 of the Big Apple’s hard-working cabbies. A portion of the sales are donated to the University Settlement.

A beautiful screen-printed perpetual wall calendar. It uses three rotating disks that indicate the day, month and date. It comes in black, white, red and purple; 25% of the proceeds from the latter go to Pro-Literacy Detroit. Also available from Schoolhouse.

Tim Rowett of Grand Illusions demonstrates a cool wall calendar which appears to be covered with random dots, dashes and slashes, but actually displays the date when a plastic mask is slid over the appropriate markings.

A winner of Android Japan’s Experiments: Object contest. Kosho Tsuboi’s Magic Calendar is a large digital calendar. Tsuboi’s prototype uses a low reflection display, but he hopes that in the future there will be an E-ink display that looks and feels like paper.

Stay festive and slightly buzzed in the 24 days leading up to Xmas with an assortment of tiny bottles of booze. Includes a variety of gin, whiskey, and flavored vodka. New to the selection this year, a yummy brown sugar bourbon.

Poligon’s etched metal calendars not only look cool, but offer a satisfying feature – the ability to punch out each day as it passes. Choose from a foldable triangular design or a flat version with hidden magnets for fridge mounting.

What do astronauts do when their noses itch but they have their helmets on? Which country is so clean, it actually imports trash? And where is it legal to sue a bear? Find out the answer to these important questions and more in Dan Lewis’ calendar. Samples here.