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Halloween Round-Up: Wallpapers And Tutorials
October 25th, 2007 in Graphics | 62 Comments
The Halloween is coming. The preparations are running. Pumpkins are being carved. And skeletons are being packed out from the closets. Since you probably want to set a perfect mood for your coming Halloween party, you might want to set up the party on your weblog as well. So if you are planning on some little redesign you might need some Halloween icons. Besides, what is the Halloween without a scary Halloween wallpaper on your desktop or some fancy decoration for your laptop?
To help you to set the scary mood we’ve decided to present some of the most beautiful wallpapers, icons, Halloween art works, modding methods, costumes, recipes and tutorials for your tuesday’s party. Furthermore we’d like you to collect the best Halloween logos you’ll find in the Web over the next week and you can change the Smashing Magazine logo as well.
Please notice that all images can be clicked.
Halloween Wallpapers
Halloween Icons
Halloween Art
Halloween How-To
Learn how to…
- …make your own Mac O’Lantern…
- …create a perfect Halloween costume:
- …create a perfect “Halloweenish” PC modding:
- …create a perfect “Halloweenish” Mac modding:
- …create a perfect “Halloweenish” Laptop modding:
- …prepare a perfect Halloween dinner:
- …prepare tasty Halloween snacks:
- …prepare perfect Halloween drinks and cocktails
- …ensure a perfect Halloween spirit:
- …create a little paper doll skeleton:
- …create a really extreme pumpkin:
- …find a pretty scary game:
- …tune your Firefox with Halloween Add-Ons:
- …find more Halloween products: Halloween Products
- …find almost everything else: Halloween Tutorial Roundup, Lifehacker Halloween Roundup, Halloween Tutorials
Create…
…a smashing Halloween logo for Smashing Magazine!
On the 31st of October we’d be glad to replace our logo with a Halloween-version designed by you.
- Please send us your designs until the 30th of October 2007;
- the format of the image should be .jpg or .png;
- the size of the image should be 229×83px, as in our logo;
- most creative participants will be featured in the logos overview which will be published on the November’s first week.
Besides, we’d like to ask you to collect nice Halloweenish logos you’ll find in the Web next week and send them them to us via e-mail. Afterwards we’ll post the gallery of the best Halloween logo designs.
Here are some examples for inspiration:
Web.de Illustration
Therefore…
- …inspire yourself with Halloween colors!
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Oli (October 25th, 2007, 6:50 pm)
Guys, your collections are stunning!
I just love the “Think Halloween” Wallpaper!
Thanks!
babu (October 25th, 2007, 6:52 pm)
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim (October 25th, 2007, 7:33 pm)
love your collection
Thiru (October 25th, 2007, 8:17 pm)
awesome collection. the first apple logo is the pick of these. Happy halloweeeen!
Peter (October 25th, 2007, 8:19 pm)
FYI : to download the AmericanGreetings wallpapers you first have to register ( free ) …
Design Creme (October 25th, 2007, 8:24 pm)
The wallpapers are cool! :)
Chris Vincent (October 25th, 2007, 8:36 pm)
Halloween and websites usually don’t match….. there are way too many people that dislike the thought of it because of their backgrounds and religion. Other than that it usually give a designer a little challenge to use in their spare time
Stevie K (October 25th, 2007, 10:21 pm)
A lot of pumpkins in there guys, you know what the title of this article should have been “Smashing’s Pumpkins”!…
…I’ll go get me coat.
Sean (October 25th, 2007, 10:41 pm)
Nice list. Some pretty good artwork there!
If you want to actually see the recipes for the list linked from “prepare perfect Halloween drinks and cocktails” then go here…
Link [cocktails.about.com]
deafwiggle (October 25th, 2007, 11:42 pm)
Cool stuff! Reminds me of a page I put together for a friend back in 2001:
Link [www.deafwiggle.com]
Toni (October 25th, 2007, 11:58 pm)
Here you can find even more halloween wallpapers: Link [wallpaperstock.net]
Sebastiaan Stok (October 26th, 2007, 12:14 am)
More hire Link [iconfactory.com]
Men love the icons :D
Fernando Lins (October 26th, 2007, 1:41 am)
Great collection! May you please add my wallpaper and icon release too?
Link [www.devixdesign.com]
david (October 26th, 2007, 4:42 am)
great post and some fantastic halloween images here. i’m just glad you didn’t post any christmas images yet, since that seems to be up everywhere already. don’t forget to also check out some cool (and free) halloween screensavers, wallpapers, etc at Link [www.freeze.com] and Link [www.screensaver.com]. Thanks for the post.
Eli (October 26th, 2007, 2:02 pm)
Haha! Love that first halloween wallpaper! Some great pieces here as well.
Cheers
Matthew Pennell (October 26th, 2007, 5:47 pm)
I think you guys need to revisit your .htaccess, as all I am seeing is a bunch of “Bandwidth stealing forbidden!” messages.
pingoogle (October 26th, 2007, 7:18 pm)
Cool….smashing…..pumpkins!!! nice!!!
Ehab (October 26th, 2007, 8:33 pm)
Simply Awesome guys ! Love the PC-Modding ones !
Aken (October 26th, 2007, 10:22 pm)
Cool!! nice images for my collection.
Sue (October 27th, 2007, 7:06 am)
Ahhh, my holiday is featured here.
For some absolutely stunning wallpapers, try pumpkinrot’s site. Or his companion, naturot. He’s a legend among us Halloween freaks.
Link [pumpkinrot.com] (can be used as smaller sized wallpapers)
Link [pumpkinrot.com]
daniel (October 27th, 2007, 3:26 pm)
Hey guys, just want to share another Halloween wallpaper.
a different style, i really like it.
Link [www.lequ.ca]
Anton B (October 27th, 2007, 4:42 pm)
Here are some very nice Halloween wallpapers: Link [www.vladstudio.com]
paul (October 27th, 2007, 6:51 pm)
Here is a very cool free wordpress theme for halloween Link [wp-design.org] [wp-design.org]
Ben (October 29th, 2007, 2:03 am)
Some really nice wallpaper to put you in the halloween spirit.
Kostas Mavropalias (October 29th, 2007, 2:39 pm)
Great artwork!
Nick (October 29th, 2007, 10:48 pm)
Cool stuff, but I thought there was going to be a Monday design inspiration series?
Michael Thompson (October 31st, 2007, 9:40 pm)
FATAL FRAME!
Hands-down the scariest game I’ve ever played. Silent Hill, Doom 3, Resident Evil…all were NOTHING after playing Fatal Frame.
Casitecenter (November 5th, 2007, 2:36 pm)
oh oh oh oh i wish if i have found this article sooner
at our work there was a pumpkin carving competition :D
ZUZİ (November 6th, 2007, 11:25 pm)
Great
wallpapers (February 11th, 2008, 2:10 pm)
Very nice halloween wallpapers, they look awsome. Keep up the good work!
Pelardo (March 6th, 2008, 6:55 am)
Very nice color settings
thank u !