Pencil Calendar
(image via: Mytton Williams)
Shave the days away with the Pencil Calendar created by Mytton Williams Design in the UK. Now you too can “get the lead out” every morning, thanks to this unique calendar design that substitutes graphite for graphics. The concept is a simple one: each pencil’s outer coating has been overlaid with numerals ranging from the first to the final day of each month. Start using your “January” pencil on New Year’s Day and by the end of the day when it (and you) are worn down, sharpen it. In other words, give the workday added appeal by turning it into curled-up peel.

(images via: PopSop and Mytton Williams)
The Pencil Calendar comes to you boxed in all its rainbow-hued glory, arranged not only by date but by temperature: January is as frigid blue as your frostbitten tootsies; August glows bright vermilion like your flushed and feverish brow. On the other hand, who uses pencils anymore… or works 365 days a year? Just sayin’.
AOK Apple A Day Calendar
(image via: InventorSpot)
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but how in the world are you going to keep track of all those days… and, all those apples? A calendar, of course! And not just ANY calendar, either. Serviceplan, the ad agency for German health insurance provider AOK, has come up with the “Apple A Day Calendar”, a sort of fruit bazooka that reveals the new day’s date every time you remove an apple from the UVA- and UVB-resistant Plexiglas tube. At month end, simply reload the Apple A Day Calendar with 28, 30 or 31 apples.
(images via: DMB Designs)
Tasteful (and tasty) Apple A Day Calendars were hung in a number of AOK branch offices where they supposedly attracted a lot of attention. One must wonder, though, if there was a mad rush at each branch every morning to remove the daily apple, thus taunting latecomers who had to spend the rest of the day drooling. I seed what you did there.
Bubble Calendar
(images via: BubbleCalendar.com)
The Bubble Calendar was an instant pop culture hit when first introduced. Yes, I said “pop”, and that’s just what this 48″ x 17.5″ (122cm x 45cm) bubble wrap covered calendar does, once a day. At least that’s the concept: I’ll bet dollars to donuts not a single bubble remains un-popped after spending a few hours alone with the 6-year-old in the image above. Kids grow up fast… this kid especially.
(images via: Unicorn Graphics)
According to the Bubble Calendar people (you know who you are), the Bubble Calendar is available in any one of 4 different languages, employs “heavier bubblewrap for a bigger POP”, has the weekends bolded for quick reference and features American, Australian, British, Canadian, and New Zealand holidays. Quick, name a New Zealand holiday that has nothing to do with sheep! Time’s up, it was a trick question.