DESIGN PROCESS. CALENDAR. DESIGN.

CALENDAR was the other product. While I was doing research about time-management I came across this game that helps You to track your productivity. It's a chain game. Every day You are productive - You draw a piece of the chain  the goal is not to separate the chain. This calendar is based on this game. It's a term-time calendar for a student. It should help You to rack your productivity. The calendar is for 2013-14 because I actually want to try it out. It works in the same way. You have the yellow bubbles as the calendar days  at the bottom You have the blue sticers. After You come back home You have to peel one sticker off if it was a productive day and if You did something useful. After the year You will see how productive You are if there will be more yellow than blue bubbles on the calendar You have to start thinking about life and what are you doing with it. 

I looked at a lot of innovative and inventive calendar designs online. Some of them were amazing. I knew I wanted to make my calendar interactive. One of my goals of this brief was to make all the final pieces interactive so You're time management would be more fun than a 'must do'. I think I succeeded in this point. Though I think because I had to spend a lot of time on thinking about the product and researching - I spend less time thinking how to make it work as a series. So it seems that my final 10 pieces work more as three different series, than one solid. If I could revisit this brief I would spend more time thinking about the design and how to make it work as a series. 

I chose the yellow and blue combination on purppose. I think yellow makes it feel a bit more positive than something You 'must do' and yellow brings warmth to the room. The blue is the same as the blue from the clock series. 

I took some pictures of the mock-up I did for the final crit:

I will take pictures of the final piece as well because I managed to print it out. I cannot wait to use it. Even if I fail this module at least I'll have something to put on my wall and actually help me to manage my time here in LCA. 

The final piec with the stickers. While printing some mistake happened or maybe it's me setting up the file incorrectly , tho I double/triple checked, but the stickers came out smaller than the calendar circles ;oo I don't really have time to redo anything, so I'll just keep it like that. In real life the stickers and the calendar circles have to be the same.