Near the beginning or end of every year, we see custom calendar prints sold and distributed in all shapes and sizes. They come in a dizzying variety of designs, and some of them are so good we forget they were printed in the standard formats – posters, cards or multi-pagers. If you want to make an even bigger difference with your calendars than that, we’ve got a few offbeat ideas lined up for you.

Unconventional Calendar Ideas

Folding Cover

Printing so many pages of numbered days can seem like such a waste sometimes. There are unique holidays for every month, but in the end all of them have the same first 28 days.

This one-page calendar cover is a bright economical idea for reducing the pages you have to print; just fold the bottom half up to the current month’s tab to keep it up to date. Small color-coded markers tell you which month ends at what day.

Musical Score on Paper

This single-page paper calendar is unassuming, but profound. Each day’s got a box next to it. The idea is to blacken the boxes next to the bad days, and leave blank the boxes next to the good days. When the year is complete, the musically talented can use this daily mood chart to create a musical score. For the rest of us, this extraordinary calendar can help us look back at the previous year in a whole new light.

Stickers

These handy custom sticker prints are great for people who can’t fit their schedules in just one calendar. They can stand for any month, can be slapped conveniently in a notebook, and go just about anywhere you go!

Awesome designs can jazz up calendar prints up to a limit; surprise and interest people even more by printing your calendars on unexpected materials. Let us know in the comments if you’ve got more unique calendar printing ideas.