#photos where dnp are just with the empty background look horrendous. why is there so much SPACE? zoom in a little bit pls

[goldenpinof]

this calendar is a bit of a disaster, ngl. i wanna highlight a few issues (EU shop edition) that could have been prevented by just revising original files before sending them to the company that printed everything:

September has an uncoloured part in letter "r":

calendar boxes are not coloured properly in several months (February, July, August, November). basically, the net and the colouring aren't adjusted correctly, and there's a space between the net and the coloured box:

(some photos are with arrows, and some are not - it's done intentionally)

pictures and calendar templates are not aligned with the edges of the pages almost on every page. which is a manufacturer's problem, probably. also the names of the months are not in the middle of the empty spaces under the templates, which creates a lot of unused empty space under the month's name, and it looks strange (i saw people pointing out that the templates have small boxes overall, i'll come back to it separately when i have the 2024 calendar with me. but as a side note, yeah, they could make the templates bigger since they had a lot of spare space anyway):

there's a dot missing in the credits. each credit other than Linda Blacker's has a dot. in addition, IRL Merch Ltd isn't a thing. there's no such company, and a brand name can't be "limited". so it's either IRL Merch or IRL Digital Ltd. it's quite alarming that they don't know the difference and put a non-existent company on a printed material. idk where Neil and others were looking, tbh:

this thing isn't aligned either (orange line, 2025 and the phrase):

not to mention the problems that the US shop has with the printing of this calendar.

all things considered, the quality of this calendar is bad. the majority of these issues are easily preventable by just revising each page by zooming in and using rulers. it's a designer's job first, manager's job second, sorry. raises a question about professionalism and care for what IRL Merch puts out. it's just not a well-made product, and it's upsetting, because it could easily be an amazing calendar. and it's not the first time IRL Merch doesn't check what they do, they've been asked to be more careful, but i guess, they don't care.

in the same breath i wanna say that they fixed the colouring of empty boxes, and now they are different shade from the boxes with numbers. the 2024 calendar had the boxes coloured chaotically, which was definitely a mistake.