Watching Time Go By

Who says time flies? Sometimes time just seeps slowly, as demonstrated by Spanish designer Oscar Diaz in an art exhibition called Sueños de un Grifo – Diseño con Alma de Agua that opens at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

He created a totally boss calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. Every month, a fresh bottle of colored ink spreads across a sheet of paper embossed with numbers, coloring them in as it spreads.

Diaz says in the project description that “Ink Calendar make use of the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are ‘printed ‘ daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. The calendar enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it. The aim of the project is to address our senses, rather than the logical and conscious brain.”

Now the question is how can I DIY this?