It’s a unique calendar project, and the students of the Research and Development campus at the National Institute of Design in the city have something to be excited about. Fifteen students of the Information and Interface design department of the institute have been involved in the design of a unique calendar, which will be in the form of cubes, one cube representing a month.
Each month will also celebrate one of several Indian scripts selected by the students. Among the scripts that the students have chosen for representation on the calendar are Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu, Devanagiri, Gurmukhi and Gujarati.
Teachers at the institute claim that the project is aimed at whetting the students’ interest in regional languages. The calendar will follow the international standard, the Gregorian calendar. It will also have elements of the lunar calendar, and indicate cycles of the moon phase. Each cube will contain information about the origin of the different scripts and where the different languages are spoken. The name of that particular month in the local calendar will also be provided.
Students claim that the project has offered insights on the similarities between different languages. Working on the calendar has made them see the formation of different letters as elements of design, say students.
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