Nature + Creativity = Land Art

Let’s take a look behind door five of our Advent calendar and discover Richard Shilling’s land art:

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The British artist creates works of art using only natural materials gathered near to where each sculpture is going to be made. His Land Art calendar shows how he explores the cycles of nature and transcience of existence. Inspiring!

Don’t miss promoting your calendars via Social Media!

It’s the festive season and many people are looking for gift ideas. Cue: Your wall calendars. Here’s how to easily reach potential customers and calendar buyers:

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest are attracting heavy traffic at this time of year and many people are looking for inspiration what to get friends and family for Christmas.

This is your chance to show your work! And you can easily do that via the “Calvendo Social” functions in our product gallery and simply “click & share”:

  1. Choose your calendar in the Calvendo product gallery
  2. Scroll down a bit where you’ll see “Share on Facebook” under “Calvendo Social” on the right.
  3. Important: Before you click on the “Share on Facebook” link, make sure that your title page is displayed in the big slide show in the middle of the page that’s showing all your calendar pages for it to be included in your Facebook post. If not, simply click on the small image of your cover page underneath the slide show (where all 14 calendar pages are shown) and the slide show will revert back to it.
  4. Click on “Share on Facebook”. A window will open displaying a Facebook post including your cover image, title of your calendar, product description and link to the product gallery. (Should the cover image be missing, see 3.)
  5. You can choose where to post on Facebook in the top left and either share the post on your own timeline, that of a group, a friend etc. You can also add some copy in the “Say something about this” field and ask your friends to share your post, for instance.
  6. Click on “Share link” in the bottom right. Done!

If you want to share your calendar(s) on Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest, simply click on the respective scroll bar (underneath the Facebook function) to activate it, then click on the corresponding symbol “Tweet”, “g +1” or “Pin it” next to it and share your post.

Don’t miss this easy way of promoting your calendars and start sharing!

 

 

 

Picturing England

A look back in time: This wonderful Picturing England calendar takes you on a journey through 150 years of English history via beautifully-preserved photographs from the archives of Historic England. This is Bristol, by the way. Would you have guessed it ….?

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