05 December,2021 10:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Team SMD
Vohra
Being an Air Force wife, illustrator and designer, Vohra has lived in different cities, and come to appreciate their uniqueness, which she saw rubbing off on their residents too. She wanted to create a calendar that celebrated these cities, and gave people things to identify with, thus honouring our desiness. The collection includes cities like Chennai, Amritsar, Mumbai and Hyderabad, and Vohra hopes to expand on her Dil Se Desi range next year. The desk calendars are priced at Rs 599 and the wall calendars at Rs 699.
To order: www.happywagon.com
Founded by family friends Tanya Kotnala and Tanya Singh, Bhuli is a home studio known for its Indian culture-inspired illustrations, designing around the elements of simplicity, sustainability and swadeshi. Bhuli's 2022 calendar (Rs 665) is themed around Indian headgears that reflect cultural identity, power, prestige, ceremonies and spiritual beliefs, among other things. The 12 vivid illustrations include interesting cultural headgears from India.
To order: bhuli.myinstamojo.com
Vaidya loves observing people, how they talk, their posture, how their hands move as they speak on the phone, the colour of their skin, their clothes and hair styles. After the first lockdown, as people slowly resumed their regular activities, Vaidya realised how important it was to have them around. She started clicking pictures of the people she saw around her and illustrating them, these ultimately forming her People calendar for 2022 (Rs 400 plus shipping). Each page has a cut mark on the top and can be used as a bookmark too.
To order: @vodkabai and @i_fugaa, Instagram
Illustrator Annada Menon has developed two calendars for 2022. There is quarantine with a cat, a series dedicated to cat lovers who spent the lockdown in their company. It also celebrates those who newly became cat parents during this time, and is available in both desk (Rs 699) and wall (Rs 799) formats. Menon also has the Let's play dress up desk calendar (Rs 699), with illustrations that are a reminder of our childhood when we wanted to try out our parents' or siblings' clothes and accessories, sometimes even putting on little fashion shows. Only, the sibling/friend in this series is an animal, Menon's aim being to celebrate both animals and fashion. Both calendars have an extra month of January 2023 which is a colour-it-yourself page.
To order : https://annada-menon-store.stores.instamojo.com/
Artist Daminih Verma, who accepts commissions and collaborations and conducts workshops under the name of Daminih Arts, speaks of an intense love for nature, it being a source of positivity and calm in her everyday life. This passion inspired her to create a nature-themed calendar for 2022, which serves as an added reminder of nature's value in the midst of the pandemic. Verma is offering handpainted, printed calendars, priced at Rs 699, along with an easel, and complimentary cookies and stickers.
To order: @da_mini_arts, Instagram
