Ray has a pretty solid reputation for the calendar pages he does for APHA, the American Printing History Association, for challenging basic assertions for what makes a good calendar. He is always looking for ways to violate any rules and looks for opportunities to turn the page into a more conceptual and creative project than any concern for making it calendar-useful.

After two years of the Covid pandemic and the opportunity for doing January and starting the year, Ray came up with the idea of starting it right.

Saturday, January 1 and then doing that until you get it right or at least by the end of the month.

Jill chose July. It is hard to not just do everything red and blue, which she did, but she took a slightly different view with the color tone and saturation. Working both with her playful form of calligraphy and the use of tissue paper to create texture she created a very playful, but subdued, quality to the piece.

Working both with handset metal type and photopolymer she found a nice balance between the playfulness and consumer needs for a calendar that can be useful.