Time representation study · 8 sketches

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Clocks

Clocks go round because the day returns. Calendars sit in grids because the month gets counted. These sketches trade the habits: the day drawn as a calendar, the year drawn as a dial. Open any of them with Customize to tune it and get a short guide to reading it.

Start here · an illustrated essay in 16 chapters How we learned to draw time From notched bones to atomic seconds: why the day became a circle and the year a grid. Scroll it slowly.
  • Solid: already gone
  • Outline: still ahead
  • Pulse: now
Local--:--:--

Clocks

They tell the time of day. Most of them borrow the counting logic of a calendar.

5 sketches

Calendars

They tell the date. Two of them borrow the round, returning logic of a clock.

3 sketches