Pop-up gallery: double DIN calendars for the US and Canada

We are currently updating the calendar gallery on our website and will soon integrate our new double DIN calendar format for customers in North America.

In the meantime, you can browse our pop-up gallery below for a selection of wall calendars in the new format, which will be available to buy this autumn. 

For further information on our new calendar format, please see here.
To see below examples in detail, just click on their covers.

Take part in the first ever AI Calendar Award

Enter the CALVENDO AI Calendar Award

Are you creative and up for a new challenge? Then get creative and take part in our big AI (artificial intelligence) wall calendar competition. Win the international CALVENDO AI Calendar Award and get featured at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair!

TASK
Create original wall calendars on our CALVENDO platform using AI tools, such as Midjourney. You can choose from three themes for your entry:

  • Children’s calendar for 6- to 12-year-olds, featuring a story told in pictures that spans the whole year, i.e., calendar pages from January to December. Text can be included.
  • Calendar that illustrates classics of world literature featuring images of famous works, e.g., by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, etc.
  • Medieval fantasy calendar featuring scenes of knights and dragons, fairytale castles, etc. in a medieval look.

PRIZES
The three calendars that our jury will select as winners will be exhibited in the annual “Calendar Gallery” at Frankfurt Book Fair 2023. This unique wall calendar exhibition showcases the range of products available to buy to international trade visitors as well as to consumers. We will also invite the winners to attend Frankfurt Book Fair (trip to Frankfurt and admission to fair will be covered)! The winning calendars will be promoted on our social media channels, in our newsletter and our online shop.

HOW TO TAKE PART
Taking part is easy: Set up a CALVENDO user account and design your AI wall calendar on our free CALVENDO platform. When submitting your AI wall calendar, enter one of the following terms as a reference for the jury. Choose the term that is applicable to your chosen theme: “AI Children’s Award”, “AI Literature Award”, “AI Middle Ages Award”. You can submit up to 20 works in all 3 categories.

Deadline for entries: 31 July 2023. The CALVENDO jury will select one winner for each theme and you’re in for a chance to visit Frankfurt Book Fair – don’t miss!

Click here to take part and create your AI wall calendar now

We are looking forward to your entries – good luck and have fun creating your AI wall calendar!

Lots to be inspired by: Calvendo’s creative calendar makers

With calendar season on our doorsteps (yes, autumn is finally here!), we see new users on our platform as well as ‘old hands’ cracking on with their ideas and producing fresh calendar material. Here are a few projects that caught our eye over the past weeks. If you haven’t logged into the system yet this year to start a new project, take a look and be inspired by this snapshot of our talented Calvendo community (and there’s much more!):

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  • Whimsical and delightful: Japanese Kokeshi doll illustrations by Capucine with cleverly woven in seasonal references. (Don’t miss the December Kokeshi!)
  • The eyes have it: Great use of our new cover design templates by David Knowles in his ‘Just Nature’s Eyes’ calendar
  • Yearning for the countryside: Christian Mueringer is tapping into the zeitgeist with his ‘Charming Country Houses’ project and collection of rural gems around Europe.
  • Retro with a modern twist: Stephen Millerships’s travel poster style illustrations of Manchester and his hometown Ilkeston are fabulous. Take a look!
  • Delicious: Atlantismedia’s ‘Sweet Dreams’ selection is mouth-watering. Pretty perfect for everyone who has a sweet tooth.
  • Intriguing: Wildlife Art Print’s produced some amazing macro shots of beetles clear, crisp and rather stylish.
  • Reflective: David Chennell’s Wirral calendar features beautiful reflection photography, showing Merseyside’s hidden gem in a different light.
  • Niche interest: Airline tails – yes, that’s a thing! Craig Russell had enough material for not just one but two calendars featuring airline tails. If you’re not an aviation expert yourself, you’ll be surprised how varied and colourful they are
  • Twilight zone: Sue Burton has taken a closer look a the hours of twilight and found different  Degrees of Darkness
  • Flower artistry: Terry Hewlett’s Floral Attraction brightens up every wall,  a real mood booster!

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