Gallery: This Clever Calendar Visualizes Why Winter Is So Damn Cold
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Sören Lachnit's Circular Calendar reimagines the yearly calendar. *Image: Sören Lachnit*
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The yellow circle in the middle sits in the position the sun would be at 50 degrees north latitude (this parallel goes through Mainz, Germany, the hometown of Johannes Gutenberg). *Image: Sören Lachnit*
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By measuring the amount of space covered in yellow from the center of the calendar out towards the edge of the circle, you can see how the length of daylight shifts throughout the year. The more yellow you see, the more hours of daylight you get. *Image: Sören Lachnit*
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"As the whole thing should have a clean look and over 50 percent of the type consists of numbers, I went through the typography libraries to search for a font with nice looking and easy readable digits," says Lachnit. *Image: Sören Lachnit*
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At one point, Lachnit toyed with the idea of photographing a fried egg to put in the middle of the calendar. *Image: Sören Lachnit*
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Lachnit started the calendar as a side project during some downtime he had from his usual interaction design job. *Image: Sören Lachnit*
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“The round form represents the endlessness of time, and a circle just looks nicer than a rectangular grid,” Lachnit says. *Image: Sören Lachnit*
