Kalender 2020 | Summm

We affectionately call it the mammoth project or the project where nothing really ran smoothly. And when we say really not free of hurdles, we mean it. But let’s start from the very beginning:
What we can now hold in our hands, after more than 3 months of planning, conception, design and printing, is our wonderfully buzzing calendar book 2020 on the subject of "bees". An educational project by Johannes and me. Over the past few months, we have completely immersed ourselves in the world of bees, collected fascinating facts about the little buzzing creatures and also watched them in real life during our visit to the beekeeper at the start of the project. We have summarised our most exciting, curious and fascinating findings in graphics and texts to draw more attention to bees. Above all, we have put a lot of heart and soul into this project, as well as countless hours of deliberation, discarding and sometimes despair. Admittedly, we didn’t make it particularly easy for ourselves. A square-centred calendar book, hand-bound with black and yellow solid-coloured paper from England, and that’s just for the top half. Add to that a Swiss brochure, different grammages of paper and the associated calculation of the number of natural white pages for the lower bundle, not forgetting the lasering on the cover and the difficulty of printing with white on black. – Phew, not so little, is it? Nevertheless, it is a project that we are particularly proud of, because whether it was the editorial right at the beginning, the graphics and text on the inside pages, or the look of the lasering on the cover – we were involved in all the decisions from start to finish, right up to the final print approval, and were therefore responsible for our project.
We learnt a lot in the process, so you should never think that the direction of the paper is completely unimportant for such a project or that sheets of paper that have already been stored are always flawless and that everything is dry after printing – small spoiler – this is clearly and definitely not the case :)
But above all, this calendar book shows that through teamwork and the belief that a wonderful product can be created, even the nastiest hurdle can be overcome. We are also grateful to the little helpers from the VISUELL team, because no matter whether text, typography, small or medium-sized crises and problems, there was always someone at our side to support us.
Now we are looking forward to a buzzing Yesar 2020!

Patricia Bischof & Johannes Eitelbuß