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Designing Calendars

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InDesign Magazine issue 113This article appeared in Issue 113 of InDesign Magazine.

Nigel French examines several different approaches to designing calendars, from tried-and-true to truly remarkable.

If you’re looking to advertise your business, a calendar is a great promotional vehicle: a chance to put your products or portfolio in front of clients and potential clients and have it update every month for an entire year. How many other marketing pieces have such a long life span? To make the calendar beautiful, as well as functional, we need a fresh approach, and that’s a challenge when you’re working on a design problem that has been solved every year since the dawn of (recorded) time.

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Nigel French is a graphic designer, photographer, and design teacher, based in Lewes, UK. He is author of InDesign Type (now in its 4th Edition), The Type Project Book (with Hugh D’Andrade) and the Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide (with Mike Rankin) from Peachpit Press. He has recorded more than fifty titles in the LinkedIn Learning online training library.

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  • Brenda Cooke says:

    At the risk of sounding silly, when I click the .js file from the download, Dreamweaver opens. From InDesign I’m not seeing how to open the calendar. I’d like to use this obviously win InDesign. Please tell me what I’m doing wrong?! Thanks!

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