Five Metal Shop is an independent creative studio, based in Hong Kong and Taipei. As design takes many visible and invisible forms, the aim of Five Metal Shop is to continue their wide exploration of the creative landscape. At Misc Store, they are mostly known and well loved for their annual Calendar Project.

The Calendar Project by Five Metal Shop is an experiment to see how an almost obsolete object with a quiet cultural significance can be brought back to life in a modern context. Using bright illustrations, modern typeface, colour combinations and printing, the traditional almanac is made relevant in modern days. Although the execution of this project uses modern day techniques, the binding is 100% manually done — 385 pages of them each.