Abstract Calendar Design for 2025:
120 Russian Political Prisoners with Serious Health Conditions
120 Russian Political Prisoners with Serious Health Conditions
This project was an exploration of how design can carry both structure and emotion. The task was to create a calendar that not only functioned as a practical object but also conveyed tension, empathy, and presence.
The main design challenge lay in integrating 120 portraits of people within a single calendar grid. The source material varied drastically: some dates had only a name without an image, others contained several people, and the available photos were often inconsistent in quality. My goal was to transform these fragmented inputs into a unified, abstract composition that felt both cohesive and emotionally charged.
The calendars were distributed to leading politicians and decision-makers across the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the Americas, as well as to cross-national institutions and NGOs — including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OSCE, the International Red Cross, the European Centre for Human Rights, and the United Nations. Copies were also sent to major European media outlets, where design served as both a tool of advocacy and a medium of storytelling.
The final result is a calendar that balances order and intensity — a piece where personal stories and dates are held together in a visually strong, abstract narrative.
