Choose from architectural wonders and edible prints for the 2025 calendar

Food Stories @ Sunshine Magazine

This year, Rini Singhi, Creative Director-Founder sunshine magazine has collaborated with chef Kirtida Phadke to bring out a calendar. It includes 12 food-centric images such as vegetable market, Indian kitchen counter, spice box, etc., accompanied with encouraging affirmations. “The purpose of the calendar is to encourage people to cook and eat seasonally,” says Rini. “Apart from these artefacts, Kirtida has also shared two seasonal recipes bhogichi bhaji, Matar Usal“To make the most of the great products we offer each month, etc.,” Rini says, describing how, after two editions of their annual magazine, the team “started working with more people I wanted to do it for those who understand it.” The interdisciplinary nature of food and create meaningful content”.

₹1,299 at shopdhoopmag.com/

House of Demons @ Bhavya Desai

Auto rickshaws, Indian Railways, pets and ‘Raga Rebels’ themed calendars comprise artist Bhavya Desai’s five calendar launches for 2025, but the one closest to her heart is The House of Asuras. ‘A light-hearted, relatable approach to household chores, each Asura is assigned a different task, and how, through their unique “weaknesses”, they bring humor to mundane tasks’ says the Chennai-based artist – who The house is planning to expand the Asurus range to include planners and productivity notebooks next year – describes the topic.
₹699 at bhavyadesai Illustrations.com

Artwork by Vijayalakshmi Palaniappan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Spotlighting Heritage @ Paper Kite

For the coming year, Vijayalakshmi Palaniappan has chosen to design an art calendar based on the monuments of India. Highlighting iconic destinations across the country, the Chennai-based artist’s digital illustrations are drawn in pen and ink style, filled with soft watercolour. These artworks are also available in a range of other products such as postcards and magazines.
Desktop Calendar for ₹399, and Wall Calendar for ₹499 on Paperkite.com

Rum and Raisin Mood Calendar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Mood Tracker@rum and raisins

Tanvi Parulkar of Mumbai’s Rum & Raisin Studio, known for her handmade collectibles and self-care tools aimed at helping people deal with anxiety and stress, has launched a limited edition mood calendar. It has a blank grid of 365 squares, one for each day. ‘As you color in one square every day, you’ll create a vibrant, visual story of your year. Choose your color palette, fill in the legend, and watch how your mood journey unfolds over the months,” says the illustrator and creative entrepreneur.
₹495 at rumandrasin.in

Calendar designed by Preeti Bhatnagar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Architectural Wonders @ Plantables

In Stories in Stone, artist Preeti Bhatnagar highlights the watercolor paintings of architectural heritage buildings that she has created throughout the year. “Since I live in Stockholm, I recently felt a passion for painting beautiful windows, latticeand arched openings. It’s full of light during the dark and snowy winter windows And the summer arches serve as a therapeutic escape, taking me back to the warmth and vibrancy of my roots,” says the architect by day, who runs Samanilai, a page dedicated to his artwork.

₹799 at plantables.store

A Calendar by The Art Brew | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Try it with Tamil @ The Art Brew

The Chennai-based brand’s SOL 2025 desktop calendar celebrates nature and the greenery that is part of life. Co-founder Avanti Natarajan says the hand-painted calendar “zooms deeper into the small parts that make up Thottam (Home): Banana plants, garden of mango and pomegranate trees, roses, starry orange Kanakambarameye catching Pavazhamalli Flowers and infinite botanical poetry that make it an oasis in a home. It features 12 Tamil words selected by writer-lyricist Madhan Karky, and the English words, Tamil transliteration and a quote appear on each page.

₹1,299 at theartbrew.co

A desk calendar based on Madras by Anchor Hughes | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

doors @ anchor colors

This year, artist Srishti Prabhakar has launched two calendars: a wall calendar based on doors from around the world, and a desk calendar based on Madras. She says, “The first is a series of 12 painted doors in the form of a wall/desk calendar with a set of postcards, and the latter is a city-based calendar that I have designed for the third time in a row.” To put together the calendar chose less popular stories and places from Madras of the 1960s-80s. “It reflects ordinary places, and is an extension of my daily thumbnails of the city series I created in 2021,” says Srishti. “It has been tried and tested among other neurodivergent peers.”

Door calendars cost ₹600, and Madras calendars cost upwards of ₹450. @anchoredhues_ on Instagram