Calendar (2025: Pulled Thread, 2024: Plaid, 2023: 3 Strands of Floss, 2022: Type Family)
Masaki Komoto, Yuri Sato
Calendar (2025: Pulled Thread, 2024: Plaid, 2023: 3 Strands of Floss, 2022: Type Family)
Masaki Komoto, Yuri Sato
- Hook
- A four-frame documentation board of printed and textile calendar artefacts, not a single poster: a white openwork panel of month grids photographed on a black backing, a flat colour scan of a full-year grid with a printer's colour bar along the bottom edge, an angled shot of fanned pale sheets carrying grids of small characters, and a close view of a coarse brown fabric sheet with pale month lettering, each bound along a punched edge.
- Hierarchy
- The repeating date grid reads first as texture, the month headings second, and the individual numerals only up close.
- Energy
- All numerals and month names are built from grid-bound units — stitch- or pixel-like cells — so the type is coarse, monospaced, and identical in width, with month labels only slightly larger than the date figures.
- Transfer
- Fix one rigid modular grid for repeating data, then vary only material, ground, and hue across a series — consistency of structure lets surface alone carry variation.
Why it works
Locking every character to the same grid cell turns dense date information into an even field, so material and colour changes can differentiate editions without any layout redesign.
What to borrow
Fix one rigid modular grid for repeating data, then vary only material, ground, and hue across a series — consistency of structure lets surface alone carry variation.
Look closer
CompositionOpenClose
A four-frame documentation board of printed and textile calendar artefacts, not a single poster: a white openwork panel of month grids photographed on a black backing, a flat colour scan of a full-year grid with a printer's colour bar along the bottom edge, an angled shot of fanned pale sheets carrying grids of small characters, and a close view of a coarse brown fabric sheet with pale month lettering, each bound along a punched edge.
TypographyOpenClose
All numerals and month names are built from grid-bound units — stitch- or pixel-like cells — so the type is coarse, monospaced, and identical in width, with month labels only slightly larger than the date figures.
HierarchyOpenClose
The repeating date grid reads first as texture, the month headings second, and the individual numerals only up close.
Image strategyOpenClose
Photography is used to record surface and construction — raking light on thread and weave, a visible binding edge, and a retained colour bar — so the frames document material as much as layout.
Color strategyOpenClose
Two opposite treatments across frames: near-monochrome white-on-black and pale-on-brown in three frames, and one frame where each month column is a different muted hue, so colour distinguishes one edition rather than decorating all of them.
Still to be written: Concept · Negative space · Texture · Production
Notes by POSTER INDEX — observational analysis from official Tokyo TDC asset
Source + details
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- Tokyo Type Directors Club
- Edition
- Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026
- Competition
- Small Graphics
- Award
- TDC Prize
- Country
- Not recorded
- Type
- Not recorded
- Theme
- Not recorded
- Style
- Swiss / International Typographic Style, Hand rendered
- Typography
- Not analyzed yet
- Colour
- Not analyzed yet
- Density
- Not analyzed yet
- Imagery
- Not analyzed yet
- Provenance
- Verified · official source
- Source note
- Client: Non Client · Category: Small Graphics
- Image
- External hotlink
- Image note
- Official Tokyo TDC asset · external hotlink · not owned by POSTER INDEX
- Image credit
- Tokyo Type Directors Club
- Record ID
- tdc-2026-011-calendar-2025-pulled-thread-2024-plaid-2023-3-strands-of-floss-2022-type
Source URL: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/
Image source: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/
Designers: Masaki Komoto · Yuri Sato
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