Choose from bookmarks, art prints and more for your 2024 calendar

For the coming year, artists across the board are clear about one thing: spreading cheer, and creating positive affirmations to create a hopeful future in an otherwise grim world. From art prints of colourful tulips and roses, to bookmarks with self-care prompts, you are sure to save these calendars as keepsakes even after the year is done.

For the coming year, artists across the board are clear about one thing: spreading cheer, and creating positive affirmations to create a hopeful future in an otherwise grim world. From art prints of colourful tulips and roses, to bookmarks with self-care prompts, you are sure to save these calendars as keepsakes even after the year is done.

Positive affirmations

Floral illustrations adorned with hand-lettered positive affirmations are the highlight of Vidya Kumaresan’s creations for 2024. The theme she has chosen at her brand The Wishing Ink is ‘A Year Of Positive Affirmations’, and the products are designed “to help people get into the habit of affirming, and encouraging them to believe that they can achieve their goals”. 

Vidya, 32, who enjoyed illustrating pansies and zinnias for the first time, says she drew inspiration from Nature for this collection. “They are two of my favourite designs from the lot. I am planning to use them on multiple products this year,” says the artist who is soon going to launch hardcover journals, and notebooks.

 Priced at ₹799, the calendar is available on @thewishingink on Instagram

Power of hope

The calendar at Unposted Letters, helmed by visual artist Vimal Chandran, denotes a hopeful future. Describing the theme of the limited-edition piece (titled Spring Time) that comes with a handcrafted wooden bird stand, he says, “We all need some kind of hopefulness with everything going around the world. It’s a reminder that there is always a possibility of ‘Spring’ and to be hopeful.”