Illustrated by the gifted 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 preserving monitor of days — it’s a stupendous paper work that may brighten your area 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 via high-quality scanning, preserving their delicate particulars and vibrant hues.
I’m very completely satisfied 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 day by day time, but additionally a devoted companion that may flourish with you every single day of the brand new 12 months.
Each month includes a distinctive botanical illustration, full with the Slovak and Latin names of the vegetation. The calendar offers ample area for notes, with weekends and holidays marked to facilitate straightforward planning. Past its sensible use, this calendar is a chunk of artwork designed to carry the fantastic thing about Slovak nature into your own home.
“When creating the calendar, I paid consideration to each element. You possibly can body the botanical illustrations, created utilizing the strategy of watercolor portray, drawing with crayons and line drawing, after the top of the 12 months and revel in them for a very long time to come back,” 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 via her research in design with a give attention to wooden processing and sculpture on the Technical College of Košice. Her expertise with sculpture remodeled her method to drawing, permitting her to understand and render volumes in her illustrations. “My very own venture acquired me into drawing botanical illustrations after I began to check flowers and vegetation by drawing them. At the moment, I actually favored the concept I wished to raise even probably the most strange flower to a ‘murals,’” Krenželáková shares. This imaginative and prescient led to the creation of her model, Gratiola, which goals to focus on the fantastic thing about Slovak nature.
The Botanical Calendar 2024 is printed on lahnur® paper, recognized 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® may be disposed of and recycled with paper, nonetheless, it’s twice as robust because of the reinforcement of the rayon fibers in its composition. Furthermore, it may well stand up to outdoors climate situations for as much as six months. This makes it very best for these purposes the place paper shouldn’t 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 stupendous construction and it was love at first contact. I complemented the calendar with a stupendous steel peg in gold, silver, and rose gold, which is a refined various to basic bindings, including to the magnificence 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) recognized for its superior high quality, structural energy, and strong dyed core. The distinctive product acquired its identify from the Japanese tradition, and particularly, 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”, guaranteeing vibrant colours and effective particulars at 1200 dpi. The backing cardboard is exactly minimize by a CO2 laser from Trotec Austria, including knowledgeable 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 fantastic thing about Slovak nature and its infinite variety with grace. I hope that this botanical calendar will carry a chunk of Slovak pure allure to your life and a smile in your face,” Krenželáková concludes. You should purchase your individual copy right here.