A Life in Days
Blush / A3
£39.00
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A Life in Days
£39.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
Every day of someone's life so far: from across the room it reads like woven cloth.
Birth date
Any date from 1940 (born earlier, the print starts in 1940)
Where they were born, or grew up
The town, then the county or country. We print exactly the place you give.
Title (optional)
Ideas: Dad at 70, Lottie's birthdays, Forty summers of Sam
What you get: An unframed print on heavyweight 240 gsm matte fine art paper, A3 (297 x 420 mm) or A2 (420 x 594 mm), usually sent rolled in a tube. Made to order for you. You give the birth date, the place and a name or title. A mark for every day since, a row for each year, coloured by the day's average temperature, and a key. Under it: the days so far, the warmest and coldest days, and the warmest year, all by their averages. The preview on this page shows your words, dates and layout; where it is marked sample weather, the weather drawn in it is an example until we make your print.
One fine mark for each day and a row for each year, coloured by how warm it was. Summers make the warm columns and winters the cold ones, and the birthday is marked at the top. Step close and every one of the thousands of days is there.
- Under the picture: how many days so far, the warmest and coldest days and the warmest year, all by their averages
- Anywhere in the world, for anyone born from 1940
- Best large, at A3 or A2, to hold the fine lines
Made just for you, so it cannot be returned for a change of mind, or cancelled once we have started making it (contact us straight away if you need to). If it arrives faulty or damaged, we will replace it or refund you in full.
Where the weather comes from
The weather is ERA5, a reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It estimates the weather for squares about 28 km across, so it describes the area around your place, not one garden. Dates before about 1950, and places far from weather stations, rest mostly on the model with few observations behind them. The colours run over the place's own range of temperatures, so a mild place still gets the full palette. The people in the examples are made up; the places and weather are real. Data: ERA5, ECMWF (Copernicus Climate Change Service), CC BY 4.0. Credits are printed on every sheet.
Print details and delivery
- Sizes: A3 (297 x 420 mm), A2 (420 x 594 mm).
- Paper: heavyweight matte fine art paper (240 gsm), bright white, smooth with a fine grain.
- Inks: giclée printing in pigment-based archival inks.
- Printed to the edge of the sheet, with no border added. Each design keeps its own margin, so nothing important sits near the trim.
- Unframed, and usually sent rolled in a tube.
- Delivery: most UK orders arrive in 4 to 8 working days (1 to 4 days to print, then 2 to 3 days by courier). See the shipping page.
- Colours differ a little between a screen and paper.