Yes, that's right, the calendar submission season is upon us again.
Most of deviantART's Calendar submissions and sales happen late in the year between September and the new year, as they make great gifts for the holiday season!

If you are planning to design and submit a Calendar, you are strongly advised to make use of the following tips and tricks.
Designing for a spiral-bound calendar seems like a tricky task at first sight, but with the following information you should be good to go.

If you'd love a calendar from a specific artist, why not simply ask them about making one? It would indicate interest to artists and encourage them to design one!

Technical Specifications:

• From FAQ #132: What are the minimum image sizes for each product?

- Product size: 11x8.5 inches (=28x22cm)
- Aspect ratio: 1.29:1 (landscape format ONLY)
- Recommended source image dimensions: 1650x1275 pixels (=>150ppi)
- Excellent source image dimensions: 3300x2550 pixels (=>300ppi)


• From FAQ #298: What is a bleed edge and how do I use it when preparing my artwork for printing?

Calendars require 1/4th of an inch bleed edge (=safety margin) per side, 3/8th of an inch on the bottom.
The bleed edge should be considered to exist inside the image itself. If you wish to add a border to your image, that is acceptable, but not required.
In the case of calendars, the 3/8th of an inch on the bottom are reserved for the spiral binding. You are encouraged to make use of the full format very well, as long as elements such as text (such as copyrights, signatures, titles, etc.) or any other important parts of the image are not located too close to the print edge and in the spiral binding area.


• From FAQ #576: Where can I find templates to help me size my images correctly for prints?

If the above information is too technical and complicated for you, please download our Product Templates packs which contain calendar templates produced at the above specs for your convenience.

Design and Layout:

Our calendars consist of 14 printed pages: 1 front cover, 1 back cover and a page for each month, making that 12 pages. Additionally, our calendars have an extra heavy protection sheet for safe hanging.

You, the artist, provides the artistic images for these pages, and our print lab prints the calendar elements on the back of these pages, which contain the years, months dates and days just like any ordinary calendar. Holidays are not marked in our calendars. You are free to incorporate the year and month names in your page designs, but we recommend you leave out the year for the sake of universality so your calendar could be used for any year. The design of the front and back cover is entirely up to your desire, keeping the technical specs mentioned further above in mind.

Product shots:



Feel free to share your calendar product shots with us by submitting them to our Product Shots category!

Submission

When submitting Calendars, do not submit them to the Designs & Interfaces gallery, unless the core artwork itself would belong to that gallery or if your Calendar is a compilation of images from various mediums.
There are two reasons to that: 1) Designs & Interfaces is currently not available in Shop browse, and (2 calendars should be submitted to the section the contained artwork would belong to.
It's safe to assume barely anyone would think of browsing Designs & Interfaces when looking for an animal photography or dark art photomanipulation themed Calendar, for example.

If you happen to have calendars from previous years still available for sale and they have the year put on any page, we strongly encourage you to update them!

FAQ #620: How do I submit prints and products?
FAQ #285: How do I update or add more product options to a print?

Need ideas and inspiration?

Then browse and check out the Calendars in our Shop! When viewing a calendar, click 'Add to Cart' to get a preview of all its individual pages.

Please read our Prints FAQ for more information!