Fifty Spanish verbs, drawn as a wheel. A single sweep of colour where every ray is one verb, fully conjugated — a print you'd hang for the way it looks, which answers your grammar questions as a side effect.

• A piece of graphic design — the wheel sits low on a mostly empty sheet, the title runs top-left in heavy capitals with a hairline rule across the page. Laid out like a page from a design annual, not like a worksheet.
• The colour is the grammar — each verb family owns an arc of the spectrum, regular verbs in the pale tints and irregular ones in the saturated shades. Nothing is colour-coded for the sake of a key.
• Two palettes, not two backgrounds — the white edition runs cool, violet through indigo and teal to mint. The grey edition runs warm, violet through orchid and rose to deep crimson.
• 50 verbs, fully conjugated — all six present-tense forms (yo, tú, él/ella/usted, nosotros, vosotros, ellos/ustedes), plus the past participle and the gerund. 450 Spanish word forms in total.
• Translated four ways — every verb is given in English, German, French and Italian at the end of its ray.
• No app, no login, no battery — it works every time you walk past it.

Designed as an artwork with study aid quality

Each verb radiates from the centre as a ray of stepped blocks: the infinitive at the hub, then the six present-tense forms, then the participle, the gerund, and the translation at the tip. The blocks vary in length, so the outer edge breaks up into something closer to a chrysanthemum than a chart. From across the room you don't read it. You just see a flower of colour.

The gradient is doing real work. It sweeps continuously around the circle, and where it shifts is where the grammar shifts — one arc for -AR, one for -ER, one for -IR, each split into a pale half and a deep half. So the structure of Spanish verbs is legible as a shape before you have read a single word, and the thing that makes it beautiful is the same thing that makes it useful.

The two editions are genuinely different artworks. The white runs cool and quiet — violets into indigo, teal, then mint, on bright white. The grey runs warm and louder — violet into orchid, rose, then a deep crimson, on a soft warm grey. One disappears into a pale room; the other holds a wall on its own. Pick the one that belongs where it's going.

Everything else is restraint: charcoal type, a lot of white space, a thin rule top and bottom, and the translations set small and grey at the ray tips so they are there when you want them and invisible when you don't.

And then it teaches

Most Spanish verb charts are a wall of tables. You look up one verb, close the book, and nothing sticks. Because every verb here is laid out the same way round, your eye starts recognising shapes before it reads words.

The arrangement does the teaching. One look tells you that -AR verbs are mostly well behaved and that -ER and -IR are where the trouble lives — a fact most learners take months to notice. The fifty are the ones that carry real conversation: ser, estar, tener, hacer, poder, querer, ir, decir, ver, dar and the rest. Learn these and you can say most of what you need to say.

Each verb also carries its meaning in four languages, so the poster works whether you're coming to Spanish from English, German, French or Italian.

Put it where you already spend time — above a desk, beside a kettle, on the back of a door. You don't study it. You just keep seeing it.

Specifications

• Size: A1, 594 × 841 mm
• Editions: White (cool palette) or Grey (warm palette)
• Finish: Glossy at 170g/m2 paper
• Shipping: rolled in a protective tube
• Languages included: Spanish, with English, German, French and Italian translations

It pairs with the Spanish sticker set. The stickers teach you what things are called; the poster teaches you what to do with them.