Ö!2023 Calendar

It is common for some designs/prints to become obsolete because they are out of date, and in China, the old calendars with new year paintings are one. Yet in New York City's Chinatown, I found that such calendars are still being sold everywhere. Looking at the printed materials that appeared in Chinatown, most of them were outdated. I began to think about the reasons behind this, and also revisited the charm of this "outdated design". Most of the people living in Chinatown are old people who immigrated to the U.S. when they were young, and their impressions of their hometown are vague and fragmented, a cross-section from decades ago. Taking 'fragments' as a concept, I redesigned this calendar set based on the old new year painting calendar.