Illustrated by the proficient Zuzana Krenželáková and printed by Šimon Babej at ubabeja s.r.o. in Košice Slovakia, the Botanical Calendar 2024 is greater than only a device for retaining monitor of days — it’s a fantastic paper work that can brighten your house and spirit. The Botanical Calendar 2024 consists of eight sheets, six double-sided and two single-sided “pages”, printed back and front. Every double-sided sheet covers two months, showcasing Krenželáková’s intricate botanical illustrations – initially hand-drawn, then digitized by means of high-quality scanning, preserving their delicate particulars and vibrant hues.
I’m very completely happy to current to you a brand new addition to the world of my illustrations — the Botanical Calendar, which won’t solely be a information to your each day time, but additionally a devoted companion that can flourish with you on daily basis of the brand new yr.
Each month contains a distinctive botanical illustration, full with the Slovak and Latin names of the crops. The calendar supplies ample house for notes, with weekends and holidays marked to facilitate straightforward planning. Past its sensible use, this calendar is a chunk of artwork designed to deliver the great thing about Slovak nature into your house.
“When creating the calendar, I paid consideration to each element. You’ll be able to body the botanical illustrations, created utilizing the strategy of watercolor portray, drawing with crayons and line drawing, after the top of the yr and revel in them for a very long time to return,” Krenželáková provides.
Košice-based Zuzana Krenželáková is an illustrator and floor sample designer with a ardour for capturing the essence of nature
Krenželáková’s creative journey started in childhood, evolving by means of her research in design with a deal with wooden processing and sculpture on the Technical College of Košice. Her expertise with sculpture reworked her strategy to drawing, permitting her to understand and render volumes in her illustrations. “My very own undertaking bought me into drawing botanical illustrations after I began to check flowers and crops by drawing them. At the moment, I actually appreciated the concept I wished to raise even probably the most extraordinary flower to a ‘murals,’” Krenželáková shares. This imaginative and prescient led to the creation of her model, Gratiola, which goals to spotlight the great thing about Slovak nature.
The Botanical Calendar 2024 is printed on lahnur® paper, identified for its distinctive construction and tactile attraction
Lahnur® (beforehand featured right here) is a revolutionary, particular paper that’s each sustainable and weatherproof, combining sturdiness and recyclability. Lahnur® will be disposed of and recycled with paper, nonetheless, it’s twice as sturdy as a result of reinforcement of the rayon fibers in its composition. Furthermore, it will possibly face up to exterior climate circumstances for as much as six months. This makes it very best for these functions the place paper will not be sturdy sufficient, but artificial materials is overstated. Lahnur® not solely impresses with its technical properties but additionally with its quantity and pure really feel.
Lahnur has a fantastic construction and it was love at first contact. I complemented the calendar with a fantastic metallic peg in gold, silver, and rose gold, which is a refined various to traditional bindings, including to the class of the entire work.
The backing cardboard of the calendar is made with White SUMO (beforehand featured right here), a excessive thickness card (3 mm for the black and white variations and 1,5mm for the coloured) identified for its superior high quality, structural power, and stable dyed core. The distinctive product bought its title from the Japanese tradition, and specifically, the well-known sport practiced by wrestlers of a sure “thickness”.
Printed by Šimon Babej at ubabeja s.r.o. in Košice, the calendar makes use of a 12-pigment ink photograph printer, Hewlett Packard Z3200ps 44”, making certain vibrant colours and advantageous particulars at 1200 dpi. The backing cardboard is exactly minimize by a CO2 laser from Trotec Austria, including an expert end to the calendar.
This fantastically crafted Botanical Calendar 2024 is a testomony to the artistry and meticulous consideration to element by each Krenželáková and the craftsman concerned in making it. Every web page is a celebration of Slovak nature, inviting you to understand the intricate magnificence of each plant depicted. “Let this calendar encourage you, information you, and remind you of the great thing about Slovak nature and its countless range with grace. I hope that this botanical calendar will deliver a chunk of Slovak pure allure to your life and a smile in your face,” Krenželáková concludes. You should purchase your personal copy right here.
