Wolfsburg Calendar 1975

AFTER 36 YEARS a DVD arrived in the mail on December 28. It was a digital file transfer from a Super 8 movie shot by a friend throughout 1974, in Wolfsburg, West Germany. A group of us had prepared large letters, in various materials that spelled out each of the months of the year in German. These were then photographed and included in a page layout for each of the months. The movie, which begins with the calendar cover, shows a German license plate of the time with WOB which stands for Wolfsburg, the year 1975 and "A typographical spoof" below. It should be noted that this city was the home of the Volkswagen Company and so Wolfsburg was very much an automotive town. We were able to even get some modest funding from the City of Wolfsburg and in the weeks before Christmas 1974, we sold all our calendars.