The Return of the 2022 Calendar

What will work this year?

The new year has been around for a few days now, but today it is going to feel a bit more real. For many, the holidays are definitely kaput, gone, packed up, in the rearview mirror. Welcome to the working week.

Digital has been tough on calendars, a helpful and informative art form which soared in over-the-counter sales in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Not only did they tell us what day it was, how much time we had to reach a deadline or a goal, they established a personality platform for our workspaces.

You might like cartoons, rock groups, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit collections, exotic film posters, Beanie Babies, super heroes, A-list athletes, or retro travel posters. Whatever your jam, calendars reflected your excellent taste, kept track of holidays, and changed your personal space every 30 or so days. Your calendar, a reflection of YOU, kept you in hot anticipation for what art might reflect the upcoming the 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more!

Print calendars, no matter how opulent and cool, dwindled in sales as day to day tasks were quietly assumed by new devices. These so called phones were quietly eliminating cameras as well as converting books, magazines, and newspapers from tree by-products to collections of words captured in light.

Finding a rad calendar to help reverse this trend is possible, especially when you consider that the 2022 template has been here before and will come again. Like mysterious comets, calendar layouts return in their own unique orbits, The last time we experienced the 2022 planner was in 2011. Before that it was 2005. This year’s model is in a rotation of years that look like this: 11-11-6. Repeat. Whatever you use for 2022 will work again in 2033.

Retrofit is not about the future, thank goodness. We are all about the way cool past. That’s why I’ve gone digging back 95 years to see a few of the calendars that will work in 2022. Happy calendar hunting!

1927

“Lucky Lindy,” “Stardust,” Al Jolson, Pan American Airways, It starring Clara Bow, Babe Ruth 60 HR, Model A Ford…

1938

Superman, Clark Gable, Our Town, The Adventures of Robin Hood, “War of the Worlds” on the radio, Abbott and Costello, Time Man of the Year: Adolf Hitler, “Gaslighting”

1949

Death of a Salesman, RUSSIA GETS THE BOMB, “Blondie,” Sam Snead, 1984 andBig Brother, Polaroid Land Camera, Siam becomes Thailand, 33s, 45s, Volkswagens, UNICEF Christmas Cards, Alger Hiss, NATO, roller derby

1955

Ford Thunderbird, Chuck Berry, Disneyland, Dacron, Lawrence Welk, Salk vaccine, IKE SUFFERS HEART ATTACK, minimum wage goes from .75 to $1.00 an hour, Rosa Parks, TV westerns, James Dean, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Emmet TIll, Nikita Kruschev, Rocky Marciano

1966

“Sounds of Silence,” In Cold Blood, spacewalk, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Valley of the Dolls, Rubber Soul, Sandy Koufax, Cabaret, anti-war protests, Star Trek, GTO

1977

Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, John LeCarré, ELVIS DIES, Rumours, minimum wage raised from $2.50 to $3.35, androgyny, Son of Sam, “dress for success,” Trans-Alaska pipeline

1983

Flashdance, Sally Ride, angel dust, Eddie Murphy, The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, USFL, Cabbage Patch dolls, Lech Walesa, “It’s a Man’s World—Unless Women Vote,” Martin Luther King Day, Korean Air 747, Thriller, A Chorus Line, Grenada, Wacky Wallwalkers

1994

Howard Stern, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Kurt Cobain, RIP JACKIE O, Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding, Nicole Brown Simpson, ER, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Four Weddings and a Funeral

2005

YouTube, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Top 10 Baby Names: Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail, Olivia, Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew, Ethan, Time Persons of the Year “Good Samaritans: Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates, BRAD LEAVES JEN FOR ANGELINA, Cyber Monday, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, “flip phone,” Hunter Thompson dies

2011

Snapchat, “Pumped Up Kicks,” Charlie Sheen “I’m a winner!”, Angry Birds, Amazon Kindle Fire, Rihanna, Bradley Cooper, Kate Middleton, Mila Kunis, Johnny Depp, JK Rowling youngest self-made female billionaire in history

Happy New Year! Wikipedia tells us that 2022 (MMXXII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.

In this common year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on January 17, Valentine's Day is on a Monday, Presidents' Day is on its latest possible date, February 21, Saint Patrick's Day is on a Thursday, U.S. Independence Day and Halloween are on a Monday, Memorial Day is on May 30, Labor Day is on September 5, Election Day in the USA is on its latest possible date, November 8th, Thanksgiving is on November 24 and Christmas is on a Sunday.