Every Birthday
Paper / A3
£39.00
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Every Birthday
£39.00
Print only, frame not included. UK delivery usually 4 to 8 working days.
Every birthday they have ever had, in one picture: the scorchers, the cold snaps, the rained-off parties.
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, A4 (210 x 297 mm), 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. One band for every birthday from the first (or from 1940) to the latest, warmer or cooler than usual, with dots for rain, and a key. Under it: the warmest, coldest and wettest birthdays, and how many were rainy. 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 band of colour for each birthday. Warm bands were warmer than usual for the time of year, blue ones cooler, and a dark dot marks rain: the bigger the dot, the wetter the day. Give it a title of your own, like Dad at 70 or Forty years of Sam.
- Under the picture: the warmest and coldest birthdays (by the day's average), the wettest, and how many were rainy
- Anywhere in the world, for anyone born from 1940
- Born on 29 February? In the other years the birthday is shown on 28 February, and the sheet says so
- Six colourways
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. Warm and cool are measured against 1961 to 1990 for the same fortnight of the year. 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: A4 (210 x 297 mm), 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.