Tear-off Calendars

Tear-off calendars

A tear-off calendar gives you one sheet a day: a record sleeve, a song lyric or a flower. You tear it off and what lies underneath is new. This collection holds the tear-off calendars of the Berlin publisher Seltmann Publishers, 11.5 by 16 cm, with an eyelet on the back for hanging and a fold-out section for standing them up.

With or without a year

Most editions carry no year and no day of the week: they show only a date, so you can use them again every year. There is one exception, the annual The Art of Vinyl Covers, where each date also shows the day of the week.

Record sleeves by genre

The record-sleeve series runs by genre: jazz, soul, rock, metal, punk, hip-hop, reggae, film music and the nineties. Every sleeve comes with a code you scan to play the album straight away, and credits the photographer, the illustrator and the art director. That makes one of these calendars a year of graphic history as much as a year of music.

Lyrics and flowers

Alongside the sleeves there are editions with a subject of their own: Songspiration with song lyrics, set in typefaces from the year each song came out, and Flamboyant Flowers with close-ups of flowers. These come in a box you can keep and use to store things in afterwards.