Co.Design: business + innovation + design: If you have a weekly meeting, GCal is the perfect reminder service. Every Tuesday at 3 p.m. can be blocked off for a sit-down with a team, and it takes all of two seconds to create this schedule that will go on to infinity. But if you want to plan a vacation or other events through the year, the typical month-by-month calendar--even stored in the cloud--becomes a pain.
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to be honest, i think this is the best way to help us remember things in a big picture. just like we do in CMU -- a master calendar reminds people in the form of week. Google calendar is a little bit overact. i always believe that you don't exersice you mind, it eventually goona get slow. and the best chance for us to exersice it is try to as much stuff as we can in our daily life, instead of leaning on Google calendar. it just cut the foundition of time scheduling down.
Let me just start off by saying - I want one! This calendar is exactly the way I need to be thinking about my year and organizing my life. Right now I have a weekly planner, which works great for keeping up with homework assignments and crew calls. But my life operates in more than just a weekly planner. What about trips home, or visits from family? How do I keep track of how fast those are approaching and what day of the week they will fall on without flipping frantically through my planner in search of a tiny jot of a note that I made months before? To have my whole year placed before me in one big view to form a big picture would help keep me balanced and more sane, and would be a wonderful addition to one of my walls.
A Gantt chart for my life. Why the didn't I think about this before...
I have to admit that I spend entirely too much time trolling design/diy blogs just to see what cool things people are coming up with and this is one I hadn't found yet. I've used linear charts and calendars for years in order to organize show deadlines and build periods but never applied such to my everyday world. Admittedly I'm not sure I want to pay $25 for one, but I may be more inclined to redesign one for myself in a slightly more useful format.
$25! Just make your own! It is a pretty neat idea though. Also designed quite nicely, I am always looking of a sleek way to convey information and this looks like just the calendar for the job. I hate looking at hard to decipher or ugly/boring paper work and this calendar would be just the cure. Maybe for my next calendar assignment I will try something like this instead of our traditional CMU gantt chart!
What an interesting idea for a calender. I think that this is exactly what design should be all about. It's finding a new what to look at an old tech/object and make it better or different or just make you think. Of course this isn't the newt's thing around, there are all sorts of calendars around and I'm pretty sure that I've seen other calendars that spread out time not by little boxes but by lines on a grid. Non the less this calendar still deserves credit for it's view on time. One of the photos says that when you fill it up with stuff to do it makes a graph of your year. I wish that they had included an image of such a graph as I'm having a hard time picturing it.
I'd be interested to see this calendar style in action. I would forgo some of the more design based decisions they have made for a more practical scheme. For instance there doesn't seem to be much space for actually letting you know what you're doing on a given day, so one imagines having to devise a key which might not be as effective. The scheme is also optimized for the standard work week, something that in our business rarely lasts for long. I would actually rather see this calendar ignore the month and set up just as a week calendar, maybe four or five weeks across. The month is usually not as important to us as what week of a project we are in. I think design is often overlooked when it come to practical things like scheduling, but good form assists function most times, often in unexpected ways. The hope here would be if our calendars were prettier, maybe we'd be more likely to use them instead of avoiding them.
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