Pentagram Calendar

It's 2010, do you know where your calendar is? Keeping track of time takes on a typographical twist with the Pentagram calendar, which sets each month in a different typeface. Now in its tenth year, the calendar is designed by Kit Hinrichs, who took his inspiration from Massimo Vignelli's iconic Stendig calendar (an all-Helvetica affair). The dozen typefaces celebrated in Pentagram's 2010 edition are all available from Veer, and in addition to major holidays, the calendar notes the birthdays of the type designers along with their brief biographies or explanations of what inspired the design. "So many people, designers included, have no idea who designed the beautifully crafted typefaces that are very much a part of our everyday life," Hinrichs has said. "I wanted to enable people to become more aware of type as a designed object."