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Days pass, months pass and so do the years, this is what calendar realizes us with the each passing moment. Calendars are an important part of your life that teaches us to keep up pace with the time. With the time running each day from our hand, we hardly tend to apply our creativity to calendars, because they have to be changed every year. But, here are some of the creative calendar designs that we can use year after year. Just have a look.
• Apple calendar
It is said, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. And so does this calendar says so. This calendar makes use of specialized tube made out of UVA- and UVB-resistant Plexiglas that you can fill with 31 apples. Remove an apple everyday from the tube and keep yourself healthy. Each time you remove an apple, the rest of the apples in the tube moves up and reveal today’s date on a calendar fastened behind the apples.
• Chrono-shredder calendar
Designed by Susanna Hertrich, the Chrono-shredder is a poetic time-object that reminds us of transiency of now and today. It combines the functions of a calendar and a clock, but shreds every single day in real time as it passes. The time that can neither be seen or touched, gets a tangible existence in the form of shredded paper. And, as the days pass by they pile up as the reminder of the mess in the past.
• Everlasting Calendar Tape
A multifunctional sticky tape can be used as calendar. Apart from being used as calendar, it can also be used as diary, organizer & planner. Ready to use year after year, we can create each month in any day and date combination, by using the two separate rolls and sticking them next to each other.
• Ink calendar
Ink calendar absorbs the ink and spread it on the paper to tell the date. With the each passing day, the numbers are printed on the calendar daily, and filled with the ink, at the end of the month the calendar gets updated itself. The ink color changes depending on each month.
• Perpetual calendar
The calendar is based on the gravity-defying ball that is suspended in mid-air to tell the time. Available in Moma stores, this calendar can be hanged on walls, or placed day your desk side and use year after year. Its string-tethered seemingly gravity-defying ball is suspended in mid-air, and manually moved to mark each month and the horizontal beam indicate the day.
• Camera lens calendar 
Is it a camera or a calendar? Its a calendar that just looks like a camera lens. The focus, shutter speed and aperture rings are used to display the year, month and date. Date runs till 2038 and priced at $2000.
• Puzzle calendar
Made using plastic tiles, this calendar makes your way to watch time colorful. Satcjk them in all the possible creativity you like and some fun to your life.
• Magnetic calendar 
Designed by Serhiy and Igor Chebotaryov, Magnetic calendar is easy to use. Here months name is abbreviated to 3 letters. Special appeal of this calendar is special chips, like “Deadline”, “Arrival”, “Departure”, five “Drink Day” and one “Don’t Drink Day”.
• Corian Calendar
Designed by Niels Kjeldsen Design, this calendar is an innovative and colorful way to keep track of time. It shows date, month and day all in different colors.
• 108Time Box
With 108 Time box you does not need to buy a calendar for another 9 years. The endless time flows from the time box and the 108 visual pictures consisted of the numerals that depict different axes.
• 20 year warranty calendar 
This calendar will tell keep you updated with days and months for next 20 years. The calendar sticks to the wall to make your updation on daily basis.
• Lego inspired calendar
Inspired from the Lego shapes, these calendars make use of three Lego blocks to tell date, month and day. Satck them one upon the other or place them separately on the desk to keep up pace with the world.
