Outlet’s 2025 Collaborative Riso Calendar!
We’re doing another collaborative risograph calendar! We’ve printed these every holiday season for 5 years now and it’s so lovely to have the creative folks we know and love and print with (and some new friends too!) participate. For those of you who are new here: we take submissions from local artists to create a vibrant 2 color risograph printed and bound calendar. The theme of the calendar this year is CONNECTION!
We design this calendar with printmakers, designers, riso nerds, and print collectors in mind—you can trim the artwork out to keep and frame (12 beautiful prints!), and we include color combinations, special inks and papers, and other extras that can serve as a swatchbook and inspiration for any future projects!
Artwork from our 2024 calendar!
Each year has a theme
The theme of this calendar is CONNECTION!
In years past we’ve had themes like justice, reimagined futures, hope, transitions, and abundance. We know people typically look at calendars often and our goal with picking these themes is to create something that is inspiring, joyful, hopeful, compelling, empowering, and resilient—something that won’t be draining to look at every day. Our connections feel more important than ever and we feel super lucky to get to meet and connect with so many of you via our space. It’s so great to see and get inspired by everything you all make and print at Outlet!
As we move into a new year we want to use this calendar to remind everyone of all of our interconnectedness and how beautiful it is. You can interpret this theme any way you want—abstract, literal, written, drawn, analog, digital, etc. We love the diversity of work that’s possible via riso printing and want to represent that here. We’re looking forward to the transitions and growth this year will bring.
Order the calendar
Why preorder this calendar? Preordering helps us gauge how many copies of this calendar we need to make and order the necessary supplies—plus you save $10! Preorders will be available until 11/15 and will ship late November/early December with time to arrive before the holidays. We ship anywhere in the US, or you can select free local pickup—we’ll contact you when these are available!
Discounted preorders for this calendar are open until 11/15.
Want to submit something for the calendar? We’d love to see what you make!
Be a part of the calendar!
We’d love to have you! It is so hard to pick from all of the lovely submissions we get, so we’ll be limiting this to people in the US and capping submissions. Artwork can be anything relevant to the theme—digital illustration, collage, pen/ink, typography, photography, watercolor, pastels, and more. Risographs work well producing high contrast imagery. More info on submitting below!
The Details:
Size: 8” wide x 5” high
Theme: CONNECTION
300-600dpi non-transparent PNGs, converted to grayscale
Files must be separated for two colors and set up appropriately for riso (grayscale). For file setup help, check out our FAQ! Keep in mind that risographs work well with high contrast imagery. They interpret art based on its value (the degree of lightness or darkness of a color), so the lighter the value, the lighter the print. Aim for darker colors, grays, and blacks when possible in order to get a richer print. The darker the value, the brighter and more saturated that ink will print.
No bleed or crop marks
Design must be flexible in terms of registration and color; you won’t know what colors we’re printing with so please design accordingly!
We will be using one dark and one light color; feel free to label your files which is which if you like!
Deadline to submit: 11/1 by 11:59 PM PDT
Submit your design
Please fill out the form linked below by the submission deadline. Questions? Having issues submitting? Feel free to contact us at hello@outletpdx.com!
Late submissions will not be accepted. While we would love to accept and print everyone’s work this calendar will be limited to 12 people. Failure to submit files within the above specifications will disqualify you from participating.
Take a look at some photos of past calendars below! Work by Sally Mullaney, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Victoria Mary Design, Pace Taylor, Nia Musiba, Steph Bianco, K Fry, Dana Paresa, Josh Stover, Natalia Cardona Puerta, Beth Kovar, and Bridger James.
