In this almanac created by Commonplace, the twelve months are individually dismantled and reassembled as twelve imagined gateways. Through varied colour palettes, layouts, and cut-out forms, each month corresponds to the conceptual theme of its featured celebration.

Through the Elsewhere Almanac, time can be carefully observed, reorganized, and carried, slowly taking shape within space. Twelve heterotopias, multiple scenarios: not only do they lead you to new places, they also transform your living space as time unfolds.

If you…

☉ don't want to use a standardized calendar anymore

☉ want to give a gift that keeps someone company an entire year

☉ need design objects to enliven your space

☉ are fascinated by the distinctive style of RISO printing

☉ look forward to treating everyday life as a curated exhibition

Elsewhere Almanac (他方暦)

formally invites you —
to reimagine how time enters your living space.

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● 6 Ways to Use ●

① Post on the wall and freely connect pieces, letting the year slowly take form
② Display individual sheets in different locations, opening portals across spaces
③ Pair with the thick backing board for a standing or hanging home object
④ Slip the pocket calendar into your phone — a portable moving landscape
⑤ Discover hidden monthly codes linked to Tondi’s future projects
⑥ Break away from standards and expand your own Elsewhere Almanac possibilities

〈 What’s Included 〉

☉ 12 shaped monthly calendars ╳ graphic design layouts
☉ 2 yearly base sheets ╳ compatible with monthly use
☉ 1 gray hard backing board ╳ desktop display
☉ 1 set of 5×5 cm pocket calendars ╳ for everyday carry
☉ 1 long binder clip (13 mm) ╳ clamp or hang
☉ 1 instruction booklet

〈 Month Themes 〉

Jan. 13  ——— National Sticker Day [US]

🏷️ Don’t just live the moments. Mark them.
Stickers are the most intuitive form of occupation.
At the beginning of the year, days are transformed into spiral-like contours. Once these attachable markers leave their original place, they begin altering the surfaces of other things.
(In 1935, R. Stanton Avery invented the self-adhesive label.)

Feb. ——— ( 丙午年 馬年) Lunar New Year of the Horse

𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑀𝑢𝑦𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒’𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 🐎 🐎 🐎
The Year of the Horse symbolizes speed and untamable momentum.
Days unfold frame by frame through projected transformations, structured as continuous motion—like the afterimages of Muybridge’s galloping horse advancing through time, accumulating force as it moves forward.

Mar. 14  ——— Pi Day

Nerd Mode: 🟢 on / ⚪ off
3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 π is a number that can never be fully written 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 5 it keeps extending 0 2 8 yet always circles the same center 8 4 1 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 7 5 1 0 5 8 2 0 9 7 4 9 4 4 5 9 2 3 0 7 8 1 6 4 0 6 2 8 6 2 0 8 9 9 8 6 2 8
This month’s calendar follows cycles and derivation as its thread 0 3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 1 1 7 0 6 7 9 8 2 1 4 8 0 8 6 5 1 3 2 8 2 3 0 6 6 4 7 0 9 3 8 4 4 6 0 9 5 5 0 5 8 2 2 3 1 7 2 5
Dates become a trajectory of continuous computation 3 5 9 4 0 8 1 2 8 4 8 1 1 1 7 4 5 0 2 8 4 1 0 2 7 0 1 9 3 8 5 2 1 1 0 5 5 5 9 6 4 4 6 2 2 9 4 8 9 5 4 9 3 0 3 8 Come to the Nerd side, we have π……

Apr. 23 ——— World Book Day

Reading lets us leave this place for a while, only to return once we finish.
April treats days as a stack of unfolded book spines, an architecture made tangible.
📓 Commonplace Library is my type of place.
　　📗　📕　📘　📙　📒　📔
Welcome to the Commonpplace Library. Browse the recommended reading lists left behind, or fill the empty slots with what you’ve been reading.

May. 18 ——— International Museum Day

🏛️ We imagine May as a museum in the midst of opening, where time is displayed through curatorial logic.
Inspired by exhibition floor plans, days are transformed into routes, galleries, and pause points—condensing time. Here, days are not merely marked, but observed, navigated, and revisited.

Jun. 21 ——— Go Skateboarding Day

🛹 ❝ Skateboarding is poetry of motion. ❞
— Stevie Williams
Skateboarding is a poem about movement.
June is written as a skate diary: each event a node, each ollie imperfect yet rhythmic through repetition. Skateboarding measures space through immediate bodily movement, composing verses through persistent tricks.
Go skateboarding! Try a new trick at the park!

Jul. 2 ——— World UFO Day

👽 The truth is out there.
Some points of light in the sky do not belong to current physics.
Built on observation and hypothesis, each moment becomes scattered coordinates and obscure presences. Unexplainable phenomena keep drawing our gaze upward—not to provide answers, but to preserve space for imagining the unknown.

Aug. 13 ——— (農暦鬼門開) Lunar Ghost Gate Day

█ 👻 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖀𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝕺𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖘 █
███ August is a time when boundaries blur ██ 👻 █
█ 👻 █ allowing overlooked presences to briefly surface █████
██ unseen passages and overlapping worlds █ 👻 █

Sep. 30 ——— International Translation Day

“Others are indispensable for me to see myself.”
🗣️ “Autrui est le médiateur indispensable entre moi et moi-même.”
—— Jean-Paul Sartre

　Self 𝒎𝒐𝒊-𝒎𝒆̂𝒎𝒆 ←——→ Other 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒊
Translation exists in the in-between. It reshapes language as it moves.
In September, days become nodes of transformation, allowing time—like language—to be reinterpreted. Through translation, new understandings and positions emerge.

Oct. 14 ——— World Standards Day

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Everyday measures, references, and units form a system for calibration.
Here, days are carefully measured and compared.
All standards exist to help us understand difference.

Nov. 8 ——— World Radiography Day

📡 ❝ Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly,
they’ll go through anything. ❞
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

On November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays, revealing invisible structures.
November adopts grids of penetration and exposure—time no longer shows only surfaces, but reveals inner order, reminding us that beyond the everyday lies another observable layer.

Dec. 21 ——— World Basketball Day

🏀 ❝ The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ❞
— Jimmy Johnson
The difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary is just a bit more.
December unfolds as a virtual shooting drill: dense landing points record moments of scoring and missing on either side. Each day is repeatedly thrown and caught on this plane. In the final round of the year, you may choose to sit in the stands and replay the moments that mattered most.