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Desktop Wallpaper Calender: March 2008
February 29th, 2008 in Graphics | 57 Comments
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.
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roc21 (February 29th, 2008, 6:00 pm)
Great work good design congratulations Patricia : )
Phil (February 29th, 2008, 6:19 pm)
Oh 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 pm)
Felicidades patricia muy buen trabajo
pati @-;-- (February 29th, 2008, 7:58 pm)
¡Felicitaciones Tocayaza! Your calendars always rock! :)
Writiki (February 29th, 2008, 9:20 pm)
Nice image! I like it… it really works.
Daniel (February 29th, 2008, 11:02 pm)
Congratulations Patricia! nice Work
v1 (February 29th, 2008, 11:42 pm)
Im 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 am)
how old is patricia? ^^
anyway, great work!
damek (March 1st, 2008, 1:46 am)
nice job.
Joshua Goodwin (March 1st, 2008, 2:11 am)
Nice. 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 am)
Wooooo, fantastic!
Syed Balkhi (March 1st, 2008, 3:21 am)
Nice graphics …
Aaron (March 1st, 2008, 6:20 am)
Afraid 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 am)
On Link [wallpaperstock.net] you can find more desktop wallpapers for your desktop
Joe R. (March 1st, 2008, 8:50 am)
It’s ok. I’ve been gettin desktop calendars from Kriegsnet.com for awhile now.
Eric (March 1st, 2008, 9:56 am)
This is very poorly done, I would expect better from smashing.
Belive Blog (March 1st, 2008, 11:59 am)
Seems interesting.
Keep going!
sd (March 1st, 2008, 12:12 pm)
nice clipart mix, though not very usable indeed…
marc (March 1st, 2008, 4:56 pm)
hei, i think that could be better.
Khai (March 1st, 2008, 11:03 pm)
very nice wallpaper.. thanks SM..
Zenith (March 2nd, 2008, 4:49 am)
Hate to say it but I feel the same way… Wont be appearing on my desktop anytime soon. :( sorry.
Hammy (March 2nd, 2008, 7:20 am)
very poorly done.. model n elephant should be removed.. !
sam (March 2nd, 2008, 9:03 am)
cool… boss :-)
Arturo (March 2nd, 2008, 9:34 am)
Somebody 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 am)
Could it be that SM has jumped the shark?
Shaun (March 2nd, 2008, 11:56 am)
It’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 pm)
Sweet looking
Brian (March 2nd, 2008, 1:28 pm)
Mac only.
Here is an action/script that sets your desktop to the current calendar. Link [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 pm)
Nothin smashing about it, not up to the standards set by SM.
Stian Jacobsen (March 3rd, 2008, 5:19 am)
I love it! It unusual and pretty darn cool :)
no one (March 3rd, 2008, 6:42 am)
what a load of crap.
Wow-A-Crap (March 3rd, 2008, 2:06 pm)
hi,
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 am)
It’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 pm)
I 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 pm)
is 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 pm)
Thank 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 am)
Great wallpaper, I will certainly use it in on this month :-)
痴情的猪 (March 8th, 2008, 11:08 am)
Seems interesting.
Keep going!
Fahd Murtaza (March 11th, 2008, 3:52 am)
I thought to share my work too
Link [www.fahdmurtaza.com].
Paty (March 14th, 2008, 5:24 am)
Thank you so much Smashing =)
la niña graphics aka elena (March 16th, 2008, 5:16 am)
es 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 am)
what no 1280×1024 ?
jaux (March 19th, 2008, 8:44 am)
Sorry 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 pm)
Some shameless self promotion, but my brother Allan and i are creating weekly graphics on our site, Link [www.pixelatedbuddhas.com]
Cheers SmashingMagazine for a awesome design resource.
TC