Calendars and usability

Elzr.com issued a challenge: submit any design for a full-year calendar that fits a standard business card. That's 2" x 3.5" of timely joy, ladies and gentlemen, and no easy task. There were some elegant solutions"



And some other solutions that may have solved the specific problem, but failed to look at context and usability:





It's all well and good to innovate, but if you're working with something as universally familiar as a calendar, the user still needs to be able to look at it and know how to use it. (That's why, for example, Target's redesign of the prescription pill bottle was so elegant; it made a universally recognizable object even easier to understand.)



[view all calendar submissions at elzr.com]