Iron Graphic · 2023
Kayan 2022 Calendar
by Hassan Taher
- A' Design Award 2023 in Graphic
- CLIENT: Kayan Office
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,597
- Verification code B144EDF141 · Verify this award
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About Kayan 2022 Calendar
Kayan 2022 is a folding calendar created for an architecture office. The calendar is printed on uncoated wood-free paper and folds into a small square that is easy to carry and to store. When opened, the sheet becomes a large square poster for a wall or a board. Each month is shown with a geometric form, and the dates flow around the shapes. Weekends are printed in a different color for quick reading. Open white space allows notes. After the year ends, the poster can be turned over to show a collage of architecture details.
About the A' Design Award
Kayan 2022 Calendar 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. Kayan 2022 Calendar 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. Kayan 2022 Calendar is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- The concept was to create a unique calendar design that has dual function and can be used after the calendar days end. It was designed in a foldable pocket size to make it easier for clients to collect and consider, when the calendar is opened it transforms into a big square poster that can be displayed on a board or wall. The dates are gray in color and the weekends are colored differently for easier identification. The numbers flow around the unique iconic shapes. Its design is very simple and can be easily read without the need of adding days above the dates. The poster is double sided, one side has the calendar design and the opposite side has a collage of architecture details.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Printed on uncoated paper, Wood-Free 120 gsm thickness
Folded Size: 14.85 x 14.85 cm
Open Size: 59.4 x 59.4 cm - Tags
- Calendar, Kayan Office, Design, Poster, square, dates
- Production Technology
- The design was printed on wood-free paper 170 gsm, is then folded into a square
- Design Challenge
- The concept design was the most challenging part in this design and then presenting it in a way to convince the business owner to produce it.
- Research
- Digital research of similar unique calendar designs, check availability of materials in the market, Kuwait is a very limited market in terms of resources and can be challenging to find the right materials for the right project. But keeping it simple was the best decision made.
- Inspiration
- The logo was inspired by the "Kayan" logo design, using the simplified shapes from the logo (triangles and squares) they created 12 unique shapes in different forms that looks like a broken cube, each form creates a unique iconic shape. The geometric shapes represents the architecture designs that are developed by the architecture firm.
- Project Duration
- Project started in August in Kuwait and was printed in December and distributed to Kayan's Clients
- Operation Flow
- The Calendar has plenty of white space for the user to add notes and mark important dates, which makes it very practical and functional. When the year ends the poster can be flipped to use it as a decorative poster to display the unique design of the architecture designed by Kayan Office.
- Patents
- Copy Rights belongs to Kayan Office 2022
- Image Credits
- Photos credits belong to JACK WOZNIAK, Photographer
Optional Image: #03_hassan_taher_kayan_calendar, Working Room Render belongs to NORDES design group (and was used for presentation purpose only)