Instagram goes print Bonners design a calendar with Instagram photos

Bonn · Photos from a Bonn Instagram community are now available for purchase as a 2018 calendar. The competition was advertised under the hashtag “igersbonn_kalender_2017”.

The campaign in which the best of two worlds came together was called “Instagram goes print.” They are two worlds that could not be more different: the good old printing trade and new world of the internet in the form of the social network Instagram. The result is a unique calendar: the large Bonn wall calendar 2018. Bonn viewed through the photographic eyes of Bonners, made in Bonn, printed in Bonn.

Those who enjoy the Bonn calendar have on the one hand the Bonn Instagram community @igers (igers stands for Instagrammer) to thank under the direction of Michèle Lichte, and on the other Brandt Printers at Rathausgasse 13 under the direction of Gunnar Kurz.

The Instagram account #igersbonn belongs to Michèle Lichte and she collects photos of Bonn from the community there. Every day she chooses a photo of the day. Now the idea has formed to make a very old-fashioned calendar out of them.

The appeal for the calendar, “Challenge#igersbonn_kalender_2017”, was a challenge to all photographers to upload their most beautiful Bonn photos from 2017. More than 200 photos were entered, from which Michael Meinhard. Thomas Ollendorf and Kurz and Lichte chose the twelve best – one for every month. “Different sides of Bonn were to be shown, different styles of photography, different moods depending on the time of year as well as different photographic techniques,” said Lichte, explaining the criteria for the selection process.

Calendar will not be the last

The new calendar was presented by Gunnar Kurz in Brandt Printers, “one of the last printers in Bonn,” he emphasises. After various web activities, he wanted to produce a regional calendar. He came into contact with the Instagram community through Michael Meinhard, co-owner of the advertising agency Boss-Meinhard, who is a good customer of Kurz. And so a large format calendar with wonderful views of Bonn was developed. “It won’t be the last one,” he promises.

One of the photographers is Nils Zimmermann. He took a photo of the Rheinaue in the early hours with his photo drone. Wim de Vries on the other hand loves sunrises and sunsets. He is represented in the calendar by an atmospheric sunrise over the Kennedy bridge.

The calendar is available in numerous bookshops in Bonn or at the printers itself for Euro 19.95.

(Original text: Rainer Schmidt. Translated by Kate Carey.)

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