Desktop Wallpaper Calender: March 2008
Creativity is all about being stubborn, reluctant, uncompromising or simply different. Unique ideas are becoming necessary, conformity to standards superflous and pointless. Few weeks ago we’ve published an overview of some (really) stunning desktop wallpapers. Researching for some excellent wallpapers, we’ve stumbled upon Patricia Villanueva’s weblog with her sometimes bold, sometimes intriguing, sometimes crazy, but always creative, unusual and incredibly personal works.
That’s why we’ve contacted Patricia, a 29-year-old graphics designer from Mexico-City, and asked her to create English versions of her monthly desktop wallpapers for Smashing Magazine. Patricia agreed. Result: a very special desktop wallpaper calendar for March 2008.
You can download the wallpaper in 4 widescreen resolutions. A .zip-archive with all resolutions is packed in a wallpaper-pack and is also available for free download:
- 1920×1200 (0.9 Mb)
- 1680×1050 (0.7 Mb)
- 1440×900 (0.5 Mb)
- 1280×800 (0.4 Mb) or
- the whole March’08 wallpaper pack (2.5 Mb)
Here is how Patricia described the motivation behind her work: “The meaning of this wallpaper is really simple. My life nowadays is very confusing, a very personal situation. I’m in this constant turmoil, I have to make up my mind with these two big elephants. I’m fine, but I have to decide what I want to do.”
Please notice that we respect the ideas and motivation behind artists’ work which is why we’ve given Patricia full freedom to explore her creativity and express her emotions and experience through her work. And this is also why the theme of the wallpaper weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but designed from scratch by the artist herself.
Thank you, Patricia!
Please notice: we are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. You don’t know it yet, but your work may be featured in one of our upcoming posts.
roc21
February 29th, 2008 6:00 pmGreat work good design congratulations Patricia : )
Phil
February 29th, 2008 6:19 pmOh yes !! I´m very happy to see this great proposal of Patricia here. Congratulations Patricia!! I´m very proud of you, you know that.
victor
February 29th, 2008 7:06 pmFelicidades patricia muy buen trabajo
pati @-;--
February 29th, 2008 7:58 pm¡Felicitaciones Tocayaza! Your calendars always rock! :)
Writiki
February 29th, 2008 9:20 pmNice image! I like it… it really works.
Daniel
February 29th, 2008 11:02 pmCongratulations Patricia! nice Work
v1
February 29th, 2008 11:42 pmIm less than impressed, i would expect better quality from SM.
“a very special desktop wallpaper calendar for March 2008.”
Its the same as the march from her self, this one is only in english and add a bad anti aliased logo to it, that doesnt match the colors of the overall design.
superxtian
March 1st, 2008 12:53 amhow old is patricia? ^^
anyway, great work!
damek
March 1st, 2008 1:46 amnice job.
Joshua Goodwin
March 1st, 2008 2:11 amNice. But, it’s a shame that I can’t use it because I don’t have a widescreen monitor :(
Nova
March 1st, 2008 2:29 amWooooo, fantastic!
Syed Balkhi
March 1st, 2008 3:21 amNice graphics …
Aaron
March 1st, 2008 6:20 amAfraid it won’t be appearing on my desktop any time soon, I think you secretly knew you’d get a split opinion on this one but thats what art is all about you’re never going to please everyone all of the time.
Toni
March 1st, 2008 7:17 amOn WallpaperStock you can find more desktop wallpapers for your desktop
Joe R.
March 1st, 2008 8:50 amIt’s ok. I’ve been gettin desktop calendars from Kriegsnet.com for awhile now.
Eric
March 1st, 2008 9:56 amThis is very poorly done, I would expect better from smashing.
Belive Blog
March 1st, 2008 11:59 amSeems interesting.
Keep going!
sd
March 1st, 2008 12:12 pmnice clipart mix, though not very usable indeed…
marc
March 1st, 2008 4:56 pmhei, i think that could be better.
Khai
March 1st, 2008 11:03 pmvery nice wallpaper.. thanks SM..
Zenith
March 2nd, 2008 4:49 amHate to say it but I feel the same way… Wont be appearing on my desktop anytime soon. :( sorry.
Hammy
March 2nd, 2008 7:20 amvery poorly done.. model n elephant should be removed.. !
sam
March 2nd, 2008 9:03 amcool… boss :-)
Arturo
March 2nd, 2008 9:34 amSomebody got paniqued by the pressure and performed poorly, really not what expected for smashing magazine, I know its not your fault, her other work was not too bad as this one.
bert
March 2nd, 2008 11:45 amCould it be that SM has jumped the shark?
Shaun
March 2nd, 2008 11:56 amIt’s good of Smashing Magazine to share things of this nature, I love it… although I’m not a big fan of this wallpaper.
Max
March 2nd, 2008 1:02 pmSweet looking
Brian
March 2nd, 2008 1:28 pmMac only.
Here is an action/script that sets your desktop to the current calendar. http://www.fairlyuseless.com
If Smashing Magazine would organize the calendar structure, I bet the script could be modified to work.
rulzster
March 2nd, 2008 11:26 pmNothin smashing about it, not up to the standards set by SM.
Stian Jacobsen
March 3rd, 2008 5:19 amI love it! It unusual and pretty darn cool :)
no one
March 3rd, 2008 6:42 amwhat a load of crap.
Wow-A-Crap
March 3rd, 2008 2:06 pmhi,
this is a piece of crap ,,. u could have done it better….u must make it ….
sorry to say this.. i’m disappointed.
Barry McGee
March 4th, 2008 4:58 amIt’s a bit different, I like it! For those who say it’s crap, grow up, no ones asking you to use it.. If you don’t like, move on to the next post. It is free afterall…
Keep up the good work SM!
Reginald
March 4th, 2008 1:07 pmI downloaded it. It is graphically complexed yet clean and intense.
I was a bit disappointed though. I thought there would be some kind of change in or animations.
It is still quality stuff.
MK
March 4th, 2008 8:17 pmis that a typo, or does it really spell “calender”
don’t confuse me, my English is bad already
Joshua Goodwin
March 5th, 2008 1:10 pm@MK: Indeed, it does appear to be a typo.
James
March 6th, 2008 5:28 pmThank you very much Patricia and Smashing Magazine for this beautiful gift. I love it.
And to those in this comments thread complaining about a free (yes free!) download from a free web site, because it’s not to their particular taste – Really? Did your mothers not teach you manners?
Martin
March 7th, 2008 5:45 amGreat wallpaper, I will certainly use it in on this month :-)
痴情的猪
March 8th, 2008 11:08 amSeems interesting.
Keep going!
Fahd Murtaza
March 11th, 2008 3:52 amI thought to share my work too
March 2008: The Spring Wallpaper for March 2008 by Fahd Murtaza.
Paty
March 14th, 2008 5:24 amThank you so much Smashing =)
la niña graphics aka elena
March 16th, 2008 5:16 ames que la gente no tiene otra cosa mejor que hacer que dar el coñazo?
pat, el wallpaper mola, y sobretodo, no podemos dejar que críticas tan “constructivas” como decir que algo es crap nos afecten.
Las críticas constructivas si están bien, aportan y se aprende. Pero eso no merece la pena ni leerlo.
besos from madrid
taddict
March 19th, 2008 8:26 amwhat no 1280×1024 ?
jaux
March 19th, 2008 8:44 amSorry to say, but I don’t think the wallpaper is good even though it’s a visualization of the author’s personal situation.
Creativity, maybe, but it’s not a good “wallpaper”, IMO.
Tom Chan
March 25th, 2008 1:30 pmSome shameless self promotion, but my brother Allan and i are creating weekly graphics on our site, http://www.pixelatedbuddhas.com
Cheers SmashingMagazine for a awesome design resource.
TC
carl
February 27th, 2009 10:02 amSorry but I don’t see all the creativity and greatness that some of you are talking about.
Just some mixed photos, some common brushes.. just that. And all the composition liooks like there is no idea, looks like “oh what should I put? ok elefants, a girl, plants.. oh a cock should be nice!”
Ravikumar V.
September 29th, 2010 4:52 amthis may be not a good one. But it only made all of us to create and view creative wallpapers
fatima
November 6th, 2010 1:33 amit so good.