a-ha 2007 Calendar Available

by Catherine, admin of Minor Earth Forum

It has been many years since an official a-ha calendar was made available for fans to buy. This year, some fans on the Minor Earth Forum decided to create their own unofficial a-ha calendar to enjoy for 2007. The process began as far back as January, and now the Minor Earth Forum is proud to announce the availability of a calendar made for the fans, by the fans.

Calendar details

• Full color
• Number of pages: 112
• Format: 53 week desk agenda
• Price: $21.33 USD + shipping and handling
• Featuring: pages dedicated to Morten, Magne and Paul’s solo projects, 53 pictures of the band and facts and release dates spanning the band’s 20+ year career

Calendar cover image copyright Mick Hudson/Redferns/MUSICPICTURES.COM

To Order

The calendar is being printed by an American self-publishing site called Lulu.com. The publisher distributes books worldwide and offers order tracking and a variety of payment and shipping options.

Click HERE to order!

The ordering process at www.lulu.com is very simple.

• First, click “Add to Cart” from the a-ha calendar page.
• Next, click on “Save and Continue”.
• Now you will be asked to create an account.
• Once you’ve done that you’re ready to “Checkout”.

Remember that the calendars are printed as they are ordered so the ship date will be a couple of days after your order date.

How did the calendar come together?

Around the time that a-ha were preparing for their in-store appearance at HMV in London, I was contacted by a fan via the Minor Earth Forum. Emma Garbutt, a graphic designer by profession and devoted a-ha fan, asked if there were any plans to create an official a-ha calendar. When I told her I didn’t know of any plans for this, she offered to help design a calendar for the fans. We discussed having it as a download on the site or even actually printing one. Once I saw her sample calendar pages, I knew there was a lot of potential in the idea!

Sample 1 |  Sample 2

As you can see, Emma (known as ‘mer’ on the forum) is a very good designer! We began to talk about what could be done, but back in January it seemed we had plenty of time to decide what to do.

In midsummer, the idea came up again, and this time we began working on identifying a concept, a budget and a timeline for creating an unofficial calendar via the forum. The moderators made up the rest of the project team, and spent many hours reviewing pictures and ideas submitted by fans. In the end, we had over 600 original pictures to choose from – and it was a very difficult selection process!

It wasn’t all work, though. The project team met up on MSN messenger on several Sundays and discussed the calendar as well as a-ha’s recent live concerts and plans for a global a-ha fan meeting next summer. We had a lot of fun working together to create the calendar, and we hope everyone will like it!

After weeks of drafting text, selecting images, soliciting full resolution pictures from the fan photographers, creating a layout and confirming design elements, the calendar is finally finished and ready to order!