Designer W. Bradford Paley has come up with an elegant twist on the design of the standard wall calendar.

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Paley writes:

“The visual/cultural resonances with ancient native American calendars, mandalas, antique engravings of the solar system; the red weekends at the bright center and the wavy outer corona all have been turned to directly support the calendar’s use as a tool. It contextualizes every hour, even on a year’s time scale: if someone marks the calendar, then looks back in even as little as an hour, they will be able to see time’s inexorable march.”

Information Esthetics is offering a free download of the calendar, but you really should purchase the expertly offset, high resolution version to fully appreciate this gorgeous example of information design.

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