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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: Join in!
March 19th, 2008 in Events | 47 Comments
Few weeks ago we’ve presented a wallpaper calender for March 2008 — a desktop wallpaper designed by Patricia Villanueva, a 29-year-old graphics designer from Mexico-City. We’ve stumbled upon Patricia’s works which have impressed us by her bold, intriguing, crazy, personal, but genuinely creative and unusual style. Being fair, we would also like to give you the opportunity to present your work in our magazine.
How do I participate?
You have some excellent ideas for a desktop wallpaper? We are genuinely curious what you’ll come up with. Please consider the following guidelines:
- choose any theme you like — typography, art, abstract, illustration, photography — it’s up to you,
- design a wallpaper in 4 resolutions — widescreen: 1920×1200, 1680×1050 and fullscreen: 1600×1200 and 1280×960 px,
- design wallpapers in two versions: the ones which contain a calendar for the upcoming month (in March only wallpapers with April calendars will be accepted) and the ones which don’t contain it (so the wallpapers remain useful even years after they’ve been released),
- the calendar should be in English,
- make sure the wallpapers contain a Smashing Magazine logo (.zip, updated, 0.68 Mb) which is clearly visible on all wallpapers,
- you may also place your logo on the wallpaper if you want to,
- write a brief description of the wallpaper, the motivation behind the design, the country you come from and your URL,
- send the e-mail with your wallpapers at the latest two days before the end of a month at editor at smashingmagazine dot com with the subject “[Desktop Wallpaper Calendar] Month, Theme_title”,
- wallpapers which will be featured in our magazine will be available for free download and will contain a link to the artist’s blog or portfolio.
What do we expect?
Please feel free to browse through our selection of desktop wallpapers to get the intuition behind what is needed to get featured on Smashing Magazine. Please consider that not every wallpaper will be published as we’ll carefully analyze each work and will select only those wallpapers which have some creative and artistic potential. In order to be featured, the wallpapers need to have some idea, not the pure advertising of a designer who created it.
A desktop wallpaper from our recent selection.
The wallpapers will be published in the beginning of every month for the next 12 months. Notice that we respect the ideas and motivation behind artists’ work which is why we give you the full freedom to explore your creativity through your work. And this is also why the theme of the wallpaper isn’t anyhow influenced by us, but designed from scratch by yourself.
Feel free to design bold, intriguing, crazy, personal, but creative, unusual and absolutely stunning wallpapers.
Smashing designing, folks!
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Mike (March 19th, 2008, 6:40 am)
Excellent idea! I’ll definetely join.
Haungo (March 19th, 2008, 7:27 am)
Sounds awesome! Hopefully I can find some time.
nikola (March 19th, 2008, 7:30 am)
great idea … waiting for results …
James (March 19th, 2008, 7:39 am)
Cool, this sounds fun, I might have a go later.
pokedstudio (March 19th, 2008, 7:45 am)
Sounds great will give some of my wallpapers a go.
cheers
jon
Carla (March 19th, 2008, 8:00 am)
You’re design work is amazing, i am loving the wallpapers - i’m probably no match tho ;-(
Yurgen (March 19th, 2008, 8:45 am)
The smashing magazine logo isn’t very usefull, because of the white background and none vector.
Leannekera (March 19th, 2008, 9:00 am)
This is because last months was shit isn’t it?
Hmmm maybe ill create one with Elephants and Handbags…
CTG (March 19th, 2008, 9:02 am)
Hopefully I’ll get a free afternoon to submit something.
CelebrityCast (March 19th, 2008, 9:44 am)
Great idea, I won’t miss the contest this time!
Ben Jacob (March 19th, 2008, 10:09 am)
Good Idea.. So the readers can also participate with the SM Journey
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (March 19th, 2008, 10:10 am)
@Leannekera: please have respect for artists and their works. We’d be glad to feature your wallpapers in one of our upcoming posts.
Shaun (March 19th, 2008, 12:12 pm)
I sense jealousy.
Leannekera (March 19th, 2008, 1:10 pm)
@Vitaly & Sven: lol touche!
My apologies all, good luck to everyone who enters I look forward to seeing some great talent this month! :)
Vin Thomas (March 19th, 2008, 2:33 pm)
Fun stuff. However, it would be nice to remove the white easily from the logo.
Brian (March 19th, 2008, 3:50 pm)
If Smashing Magazine would organize the calendar naming structure, I bet the script could be modified to work.
Mac only.
Here is an action/script that sets your desktop to the current calendar. Link [www.fairlyuseless.com]
atique (March 20th, 2008, 1:34 am)
wow..nice…i hope there’s a girly wallpaper calendar
Yurgen (March 20th, 2008, 4:01 am)
But is isn’t vector based so it looks not that nice if you desing in Illustrator.
Tephlon (March 20th, 2008, 5:25 am)
Thirded or fourthed the request for a Vectorial Smashing Magazine Logo.
Cameron (March 20th, 2008, 6:56 am)
Haha… yeah, you said it!
Rules Ever-M.Senthil Kumar (March 20th, 2008, 7:50 am)
Great..I will surely join
Cory von Wallenstein (March 20th, 2008, 8:20 am)
I don’t suppose there is a specific RSS feed to view the submissions? I didn’t see one…
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (March 20th, 2008, 10:25 am)
@all who wanted the vector-based version of our logo: we’ve contacted the designer who has created the logo for us — we hope we’ll be able to get a vector-based version as well. However, please notice that the Freehand file is included in the package and is actually a vector-based logo.
@Cory von Wallenstein: no, there is no specific RSS feed to track the submissions.
Braintrove.com (March 20th, 2008, 12:11 pm)
Look forward to the results.
Mons (March 22nd, 2008, 4:54 am)
wow..nice…
Shobhit Saxena (March 23rd, 2008, 11:52 pm)
Sounds awesome! I will surely join…
kristarella (March 24th, 2008, 11:10 pm)
Are we allowed to post our entries on our own blog or deviantArt or are they supposed to be Smashing Magazine only downloads?
sandie sørensen (March 24th, 2008, 11:53 pm)
I’ll try to give it a go too.
I like the concept!
I really look forward to seing all the different contributions.
Drewlface (March 25th, 2008, 3:10 pm)
Awesome! I’m absolutely going to get busy with this one!
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (March 26th, 2008, 2:12 am)
We’ve updated the Smashing Logo package with an .ai-file now. You can download the whole package here: Link [88.198.60.17]. Thank you.
sandie sørensen (March 26th, 2008, 4:42 am)
Uhm…
I didn’t really get the email-adress where I should send my work to?
kristarella (March 26th, 2008, 8:08 pm)
sandie, it’s the bit in italic in point 8:
editor at smashingmagazine dot com
Just replace the small words with the bits that you know are supposed to go in an email address.
sandie sørensen (March 27th, 2008, 11:27 pm)
thanks…
I knhow about the dot com, but I don’t knw about “editor at SM”- how do I write that as an email?
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (March 29th, 2008, 3:24 am)
@Sandie: you should replace ‘at’ with ‘@’ and ‘SM” with ’smashingmagazine’.