It seems early, but I’ve been thinking about the design for my 2008 calendar. Every year the Pacific Center for the Book has an exhibition of member’s calendars in December and January. While looking through my notebooks recently, I found an entry about a lecture I attended by Alastair Johnston about his collection of artists’ books. He talked about a Dutch designer and printmaker H. N. Werkman (d. 1945). He’s known for his innovative printing techniques and avant-garde typography. He printed with all sorts of materials on his press, including wood furniture. I googled Werkman and found out he did lots of calendars as well as printing using stencilling and stamping. Although it’s in Dutch, the Groninger Museum website has lots of pictures of Werkman’s calendars as well as other examples of his work. There’s a good book about Werkman available from Amazon.