CALENDAR 2024: PLAID by Masaki Komoto + CINCIN 2024
Sunday December 17, 4pm
CALENDAR 2024: PLAID
by Masaki Komoto
Cross stitched entirely by hand , the embroidered calendar’s composition references the thread pattern of plain weave, a simple and common where warp and weft threads intersect at right angles forming a criss-cross pattern.
The plaid composition of the calendar similarly alludes to this criss-cross pattern, using 7 colours to create different blocks of colour expressions for each calendar month. The typography used takes influence from typefaces typically featured in traditional samplers, with each letter’s width being modified to fit the plaid pattern grid. The embroidery has then been photographed and offset printed to a 1:1 scale in full colour. Each calendar comes pre-folded in a hand numbered envelop.
‘Calendar 2024: Plaid’ can be used as a decorative print or as a functional calendar. If you wish to use it as a calendar, carefully separate the sheets along the perforated lines by hand.
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CINCIN 2024
by Elena Braida and Francesca Lucchitta, with Sasha van Aalst and Kim Lang
To have breakfast, lunch or dinner; to do a picnic on the grass; to remind you what day it is; to make plans for a small holiday; to dry plates, hands or your bike seat; to hang as a poster; to bring some mandarins to a friends’ place.
Cincin is an initiative of Elena Braida and Francesca Lucchitta who grew up seeing the object of the towel-calendar appear at their Italian grandparents’ houses at the beginning of each new year. During the lockdowns of 2020, their shared interests in local traditions led them to find a way to make a connection between their home country and Amsterdam.
Every year new collaborators are invited to re-imagine the towel-calendar for the coming year. For the 2024 edition, Sasha van Aalst and Kim Lang designed a screen-printed calendar as a garden, in collaboration with Cincin. These two friends engage with the seasons in mutually admired ways: where, as a baker, Sasha relates through the different rhythms of transforming the yield of wheat crops into bread, Kim, as a researcher with an artistic practice, dives deep into the world of seeds, their protection, their rights and their magic. Together they gathered as many beans, bean stories, bean drawings and bean facts as they could and let them creep like a beanstalk over a towel.
The 68×68 cm cotton towel was designed and screen printed in November in Amsterdam, is an analog calendar that can be used every year and comes with some beans that can be moved around the printed elements to mark numbers, days of the week and months. Things take time to grow — happy bean year!
