Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2008

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Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months.

And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to embed calendars for the upcoming month. So if you need to look up some date, isn’t it better to show off a nice wallpaper with a nice calendar instead of launching some default time application?

This post features 24 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

Please notice:

  • all images can be clicked and lead to the preview of the wallpaper;
  • you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

So which wallpapers have we received for August?

Typography Technopop

“I love visually transcribing music, and having recently acquired some great Kraftwerk albums my inspiration ran rampant. The wallpaper is a transcription of Kraftwerk’s song Techno Pop.” Designed by Jonathan Haggard from United States.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Signalnoise A/V

“This is the abstracted idea of globalized television broadcast that came about in the 1940s to 1960s. The multicolored designs are my rendition of audio/video waves mingled with television feedback, which is how I imagine these signals floating above and beyond our planet. Even though they are, ultimately, invisible.” Designed by James White from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Dolphins are so 90′s…

“For me august equals summer. And what says summer better than the ocean? So i took the colorful theme from our website, threw in some waves, dolphins, cool summer sky and… some halftone patterns and mixed them all in.” Designed by Adaptd.com.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Monster Sushi

“Monster Sushi and is a product of procrastination — I came up with this character when I was putting off filling out some very important forms.” Designed by Regina Silva from Manila, Philippines.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

August Fruit

“One of the things that pop into my mind when thinking about August is fruit – besides summer and warmth. Plus I’ve just discovered the Museo font and I thought it would be perfect for the job.” Designed by Piotr Godek.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Night Fire

“The inspiration for this wallpaper came from a beautiful night sky and the flames of a bonfire flying up to the sky.” Designed by Henrik Wissing from Germany.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

August siberians

Available in 12 desktop resolutions — both widescreen and fullscreen. Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Irkutsk, Russia.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Bird In Hand

“I made this image in reaction to what has been a very grey and wet English Summer and also to inject a little color and karma to my day. I hope it does the same for you.” Designed by Scott Jackson from UK.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Water Mellie

“She looked at me with that curious expression when I was swimming in my pool one lazy afternoon, thinking “Better not dive in!” While her mind follows the flow of the water, wave by wave. In fact, she was wondering how swimming feels like!” Designed by Athena Emi from Hong Kong.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Carrio

“Carrio has been designed in architectural terms.., like an idea for seatting on!” Designed by Ricardo Guillamondegui from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Refreshing Bubbles

“In this wallpapers the summer concept goes directly related to the high temperatures. For this reason I have wanted to dedicate the calendar of August, the warmest month, to the refreshing summers baths. The principal image is of an advertising cut of the 70s.” Designed by Alba Soler from Spain.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Summer Time

“I’ve seen this guy several times taking a nap on the grass while I have my lunch in the park (Old Port, Montreal). He seems to be enjoying summer. I wish I could be as relaxed as he is.” Designed by Patricia Montero de Cabana from Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

3D Type

“I have fresh new wallpapers for you to give away for free this august. I chose autumn-like colors, and the theme is: typo-loving, and art nouveau.” Designed by Sandie Sørensen from Denmark..

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Agriculture

This wallpaper is based on the photo the designer has taken in a field. Designed by Radek Adamczewski from Poland.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Augustography

“The typography is based on ITC Garamond, and while drawing I just started pulling random stuff, floating in my mind, into the design.” Designed by Arthur Dam from the Netherlands.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Miscellaneous Days

“This version of a monthly calendar is about GTD (“Getting things dropped”) on your desktop: you can use the calendar to drag all the files on your desktop to certain days, when you expect to (hopefully) be working on them. If you didn’t make it – no prob – just drag them to the next day! For the time after August 2008, you can use the wallpaper for weekly “getting things dragged and dropped” on your desktop. It’s easy – and I hope it’s efficient.” Designed by Michael Schmidt from Austria.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

My Fragile World

Designed by Maryam Kazerooni from US / Iran.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Geometrical Flower

“This design is a big geometrical flower pattern, with each flower made up of smaller abstract patterns. Inspired by Escher and old Japanese Kimono designs; The patterns and abstract lines create a chaotic blossom full of movement.” Designed by Daniel Edmundson from Pernambuco/Recife, Brazil.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Purple Flame

“I’ve tried to make an ethereal, minimalistic wallpapaper. No collages or photomanupulation. I really like “relax images” in my workspaces. And I love purple!” Designed by Armando Sotoca from Spain.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Independence Day Of Pakistan

“When August comes it remind me of 14th August 1947 when my lovely country Pakistan was came into being. So, I am dedicating this wallpaper to all the lovely people of my country. This wallpaper contains National Monument (Pakistan) which is located in Islamabad.” Designed by Altaf Sayani from Pakistan.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Smashing Poker

Designed by Wade Bekker from Cape Town, South Africa.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Burning Sun

“August is the month filled with sunlight, yellow and sand, beach. The sun in this wallpaper comes from a mosaic a made for a table.” Designed by Nadeschda Broere from Holland.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Funny Grey

“I just wanted to play with nice typography and make a composition for this special month. I chose Elephant – one of the most marvellous fonts I’ve ever seen. Despite of the winter chilly days passing now in Argentina, I just marked out the first day with warm orange for one reason: it’s my birthday. Oh, by the way, the baby girl is my daughter Carmela against pollution and in favour of her plastic rabbit.” Designed by Martin Pruvost from Argentina.

Smashing Wallpaper - August 2008

Join in next month!

Please notice that we respect the ideas and motivation behind artists’ work which is why we’ve given artists full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience through their works. And this is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

Thanks to all designers for participation. Hopefully, in August we’ll receive as many entries as in July. Join in next month and smashing August, folks!

We love high-quality content and we care about little details. We believe that good content and design are crafts worth sharpening. Located in the lovely city of Freiburg, Germany. Mostly Vitaly (vf), Iris (il) and Sven (sl).

  1. 1

    Bilal

    July 30th, 2008 3:49 am

    Cool wallpapers! Love the ‘Dolphins are so 90’s…’ and ‘Pakistan Independence Day’ ones.

    Cheers Smashing!

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    Daniel

    July 30th, 2008 4:00 am

    Really liking the new calendars, it’s great you have so many, you now just need a program like desktoptopia so we can change them everyday!

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    Danna

    July 30th, 2008 4:20 am

    I have to say that I really like Schmidt’s idea, though I usually dislike cluttered desktops. But I just may use this because I use my computer much more than I look up my planner and to-do lists. Thanks :)

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    Marlin Jackson

    July 30th, 2008 4:27 am

    Some radical wallpapers I must say and well done to everyone.
    Simply love the ‘Smashing Poker’ one.

    Thanks so much Smashing!

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    Name (required)

    July 30th, 2008 4:32 am

    These wallpapers are awesome if you’re of the female persuasion. Oooh, pretty.

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    Valcho

    July 30th, 2008 5:05 am

    Thank you guys for you hard work! Great results. Love you {}

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    Peter

    July 30th, 2008 5:06 am

    I’ve heard about Smashing Magazine and the wallpapers. They are really great and I like “Purple Flame”.

    Can’t wait for September….

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    Fouad Masoud

    July 30th, 2008 5:07 am

    In love :D

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    Lindsay

    July 30th, 2008 5:16 am

    These are awesome! I took the dolphin one, which I’m about to set as my desktop, and My Fragile World. :)

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    Pepa

    July 30th, 2008 5:21 am

    I like Michael Schmidt’s idea! Very original (at least I haven’t seen it before), simple and maybe powerful (in combination with one of those for putting sticky notes to desktop). Thanx for that, I’m gonna give it a try…

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    psycho

    July 30th, 2008 5:42 am

    I visit this site for a lot of time , but never had the will to post a comment , but on this one ..my god those are BEAUTIFUL WALLPAPERS in true meaning of the word.
    Good job creators and Smashing Magazine.

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    Diego

    July 30th, 2008 6:07 am

    I like them a lot, but somehow I feel l liked the ones for July better.

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    Manu

    July 30th, 2008 6:15 am

    Oh, I just LOVE this posts!

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    Wendy

    July 30th, 2008 6:21 am

    I love the Purple Flame one, it looks so elegant..

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    speedcu

    July 30th, 2008 6:32 am

    wow, so many pretty wallpapers, I can`t hardly decide …
    but I think I will choose the night fire, love it very much!

    great! thx a lot!

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    Evi

    July 30th, 2008 7:13 am

    I just love it >

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    Jason K

    July 30th, 2008 7:33 am

    I love the design by Alba Soler, so much so that I did one back in 2002! http://www.kriegsnet.com/gallery/older/wallpaper/november-calander2002-1600.jpg

    Not saying he ripped my design but seems awefully close.

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    Reg

    July 30th, 2008 8:04 am

    Hi! Thanks for including my Monster Sushi wallpaper! :)

    - Reg
    http://www.wedgienet.net

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    Skeku

    July 30th, 2008 8:37 am

    Thx for including my wallpaper!

    Jason K (phirebrush owner maybe? :) ) Woah, seems very similar. Stock photography?

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    Chrissie

    July 30th, 2008 9:16 am

    thanks for these – fantastic! i look forward to it every month :-)

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    Chrissie

    July 30th, 2008 9:17 am

    i love monster sushi! thank you!

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    jackie

    July 30th, 2008 9:26 am

    wow! I love this months choices. now I just have to choose one. Thanks for a great b-day present smashing!

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    Michael Schmidt

    July 30th, 2008 10:17 am

    Thanks for adding my calendar to the list! I’m pretty excited people like it. Thanks @Danna, @Pepa!

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    eser

    July 30th, 2008 10:24 am

    ı like that

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    Jason K

    July 30th, 2008 10:28 am

    @ Skeku: yep, that is I ;) Yea, I had the image (girl in barrel) from a stock site years ago, but the overall feel seems and such feels a bit close. Oh well.

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    ATHENA

    July 30th, 2008 10:48 am

    Hi editors
    Many thanks for posting my Water Meillie “Cat” wallpaper!

    ATHENA -

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    The_one_mind

    July 30th, 2008 11:20 am

    Спасибо большое! Hello from Rossia!

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    MacarioJames

    July 30th, 2008 12:46 pm

    Oh this stuff is awesome. Definitely going to submit some calendar designs.

    I love this magazine.

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    Aida

    July 30th, 2008 2:26 pm

    I love “My Fragile World”, and I think that “Smashing Poker” is simply smashing! I’ll be using them as my wallpapers for August.

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    Christian

    July 30th, 2008 2:51 pm

    Another awesome selection. Thanks guys!

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    seaninauzi

    July 30th, 2008 7:18 pm

    Fantastic job guys!!!!

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    Brad

    July 30th, 2008 8:06 pm

    Love the idea behind
    “Miscellaneous Days”

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    Fox

    July 30th, 2008 8:26 pm

    “August siberians” wallpaper is very attractive,I live it.

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    Marg

    July 30th, 2008 8:50 pm

    I’ve been waiting for weeks. Love the new wallpapers. I went with fragile world. Thanks! Already looking forward to September.

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    jeeva

    July 30th, 2008 8:55 pm

    its amazing thanks for the calendars

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    Song Dan

    July 30th, 2008 8:58 pm

    i really enjoy of these images, thanks all of you!

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    Gaurav Chandra

    July 31st, 2008 12:07 am

    great work.

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    Lars

    July 31st, 2008 1:13 am

    Love the wallpapers. But “summer time” is too small :(

    I really like “burning sun” but the calender is behind my dock.. sadly..
    So I’ll try the siberian.

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    ferdinand

    July 31st, 2008 2:21 am

    wow these are great once again. You can get so much inspiration from all the different wallpapers. I forgot to submit mine this month. You can get it from here though. Hope you like it.

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    Wade

    July 31st, 2008 2:48 am

    Hey guys,
    Thanks for posting my wallpaper “Smashing Poker”!

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    Nasir

    July 31st, 2008 3:00 am

    Glad to see Independence Day Wallpaper

    PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!

    A proud Pakistani….

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    Jseen

    July 31st, 2008 3:53 am

    Simply fabulous collection of wallpapers.
    Specially ‘August Fruit’ and ‘My Fragile World’ has nice and cool combination of colors.

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    Fernando Lins

    July 31st, 2008 5:08 am

    They’re all so tacky… Signalnoise’s the best by a long distance. Get off the pop design choices guys, the web is vast, go look for original creative stuff.

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    Loomy

    July 31st, 2008 6:12 am

    The one with the cat rules!!! Already on my desktop!
    Thanks and respect!

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    rem58

    July 31st, 2008 6:40 am

    thanks a lot guys..ur designs were awesome!! thanks again..emm why dont we have a bit smaller for smashing logo.sometime quite contrast with colour there.

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    Skeku

    July 31st, 2008 6:42 am

    Tacky all wallpapers? Haha, I don’t think so ;) Regina Silva, Maryam, Scott Jackson…There are a lot of good jobs.

    Signalnoise has a lot of good works too, but every time it’s the same thing with multicoloured glows. I’m not saying his works are bad but I think it’s too repetitive.

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    jeffrey p.

    July 31st, 2008 7:52 am

    I wish you would have 1280×1024 as a size choice. thanks

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    Quote Catcher Website Design

    July 31st, 2008 8:35 am

    I really liked Monster Sushi, very different.

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    leoner

    July 31st, 2008 9:43 am

    Thats so smooth and cool. Just what i like. Thanks!

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    ViniMan

    August 1st, 2008 12:23 am

    I was just wondering why my wallpaper pack ‘Wake Up’ wasn’t it in?
    Maybe there went something wrong. And if it didn’t, why wasn’t it featured? I tried to mail, but no reactions. My mails probably get stuck in your spam box or something, although I’ve sent you wallpapers before with success.
    My first mail had as subject: [Desktop Wallpaper Calendar] August 08, Wake Up.

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    N S Sugur

    August 1st, 2008 5:06 am

    Brigth colour and cool designe………

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    Manuel

    August 1st, 2008 12:01 pm

    I love “Summer Time”.
    Great work!

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    jurica

    August 2nd, 2008 2:09 pm

    1280×960, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, why not 1280×1024?
    It is not problem to resize any of this, but I think that 1280×1024 resolution is pretty common.
    Am I right?
    I almost forget, very nice collection of WP.

    ;)

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    jhak

    August 2nd, 2008 8:13 pm

    love micheal schmidt’s wallpaper! there’s a 23 where the 12 should be, though….

    hope you do one for september! i would love to use it for school and such

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    dion

    August 3rd, 2008 9:43 am

    I’m already a fan of Vlad Gerasimov’s work, so just placed his August Siberian Wooden House on my desktop. Love it.
    Another plus is that he’s got my native resolution 1440×900 which is pretty rare among other presenters here.

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    pamQ

    August 3rd, 2008 11:55 am

    What about a 1280×800 wallpaper for MacBook users, eh?

    Otherwise, awesome job. Special mention to Regina Silva… you make me so proud to be Pinoy! :D

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    Bobbi

    August 4th, 2008 7:05 am

    I truly love Michael Schmidt’s background concept. My only problem is that I am an desktop icon minimalist. But, it gives me an idea… Maybe just use notepad files with the list of items.

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    MiSc

    August 4th, 2008 8:00 am

    I’m really excited how many of you like the getting-things-dropped idea and find it useful. I bet I am going to do another one next month ; )

    My concept is for desktop power users, that’s clear. A minimalist (like me) who hardly uses his desktop, may like one of the stunning examples from above.

    I kicked this one out in such a hurry – that’s why there’s 23 instead if 12… sorry

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    Mike Tosetto

    August 4th, 2008 11:58 pm

    Great post as always. Love Smashing Mag!!!

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    Denis

    August 5th, 2008 1:05 am

    great!

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    Fahim Akhter

    August 5th, 2008 3:10 am

    Yaaah! its pakistan’s birthday :D

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    Selim

    August 5th, 2008 10:57 am

    Cool wallpapers!

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    Anonymous

    August 5th, 2008 9:55 pm

    i love this man….its too good

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    Vj

    August 5th, 2008 11:42 pm

    So many summer themes :(

    Guess nobody bothers about us in the southern hemisphere!
    Downunder, we are in the middle of winter right now.

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    jose

    August 7th, 2008 1:28 pm

    son un precioso ejemplo de la creatividad del ser humano ,disfrutemoslos y gracias por poder compartirlos ayudemos a q mas personas en el mundo puedan tener en su PC un calendario q es diferente a todos felicitaciones desde P E R U ……….

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    santhosh

    August 7th, 2008 8:30 pm

    Really awesome, Keep rocking… ;-)

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    Sverri

    August 7th, 2008 9:56 pm

    Umm, really cool backgrounds but only a few 1440×900 ones.

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    Liezel

    August 8th, 2008 4:35 am

    Really good. thought July’s were better though. still amazed at the different tallent that comes through!

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    mocca56

    August 9th, 2008 3:40 pm

    thanks for this, it is all great,..

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    dinaesh

    August 10th, 2008 7:41 am

    Yes Diego(12) , i also feel the same.. The july wallpapers were much more cool than this month’s wallpapers…
    Anyway this month has been more of the gentle looks and simple designs.
    Thank you

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    Odipo Brian Sospeter

    August 15th, 2008 1:33 am

    Hi people, I love the wallpapers very much. I think they are giving me an interest to know more about adobe illustrator. Nice people.

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    baskontix

    August 19th, 2008 11:20 am

    Very very good wallpapers, but first place for Henrik Wissing. Congratulations.

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    Graham Bailey

    August 21st, 2008 12:45 pm

    Great but missing 1280 x 800 (MacBook)

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    zeitdieb

    August 26th, 2008 8:24 am

    really nice wallpapers, great design ;-)
    i love them

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    Daniel Edmundson

    September 1st, 2008 7:16 pm

    Hi! thanks for putting our wallpaper. Could you just change the credit from “Daniel Edmundson” to “mooz” ? It’s the name of our studio here.

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    Jennifer

    September 8th, 2008 4:33 am

    Where is our September calendars? =(

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    jill

    September 22nd, 2008 4:59 am

    it’s pretty lovely.I’m so loving it!

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    smash

    December 17th, 2008 1:14 am

    really smashing mag!!!
    Check out http://www.vistafeel.com

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    alvera

    January 7th, 2009 7:09 pm

    hi i am alvera i love sharukh very much

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    Francois

    February 24th, 2009 1:13 am

    Independence Day of Pakistan and my Fragile Life is awesome. Magnifique work.

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    carlosesierra

    July 29th, 2009 10:43 pm

    Amazing calendars….

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    carcosa

    July 31st, 2009 7:37 am

    something wrong abaout the date in the calendar.it should begin saturday with 1 august not friday

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    jeny

    February 19th, 2010 7:13 am

    i like smash magazine this is very very interesting magazine please please give a stories in the smash magazine.
    i love this magazine.

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  84. 84

    jeny

    February 19th, 2010 7:15 am

    please paste katrina photo.

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    cute cudly girls

    May 5th, 2010 5:06 am

    give some sterling knight’s picturez cauz we love his songs plus his face

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    zulqarnain

    August 13th, 2010 8:14 pm

    I lone you pakistan

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    khizrah arshad

    October 7th, 2011 8:12 pm

    well smash is really nice but its costly thts why most of the students like us dont afford to bye it>

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