Dezeen Magazine

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake's calendar works like a retractable tape measure, with one centimetre for each day of the year.

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

The Measure calendar is produced under his own brand, M75.

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

Oscar Diaz' Ink Calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date was one of our most popular stories last year.

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

Here's a tiny bit of text from Miyake:


It is a calendar which measures the time of replacing 1 cm with 1 day.

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

By visualizing the length of the time, you can recognise something new feeling about the passed days and the left days.

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

At the present age when all things are digitised and even the time is equalised, I believe that this calendar gives new value of the time.

Measure calendar by Hiroyuki Miyake

Product title: Measure calendar
Label name: M75
Designer: Hiroyuki Miyake