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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2008

By Smashing Editorial, November 30th, 2008 in Graphics | 163 Comments | Forum

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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 55 free December desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe and sent to us by the designers themselves. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded and used 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 what have we received for December?

Happy Holidays

"The wallpaper design includes a snowman in a red scarf, along with different illustrated objects to form the letters spelling “Happy Holidays”. The design concept is a modification from my holiday postcard I am sending out to family and friends this holiday season." Designed by Janice Go from USA.

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Ice Skating

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov.

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Last month standing

"I wanted to create calendar as a movie poster. I hope I did a good job." Designed by Nikola Lazarevic from Nis, Serbia .

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Art

"Last weekend I was roaming around a college campus near my house. I have seen a nice shade and light. A beautiful building architecture crafted in stone and decorated by wood. It inspired me to paint in watercolor. I took my brush and put my expression on paper. This college campus has been inspiring me to paint over 2 years." Designed by Girish Chaudhary from Pune, India.

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Cruel Snowkids

"This illustration just shows the fun of December in USA." Designed by Tim Newton from USA.

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Snow Time

"This is going to be my second white Christmas and even though we are going to have snow until April, I guess, I just can’t wait to see Montreal wearing white!" Designed by Patricia Montero de Cabana.

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Thirty feet tall

"This month I’ve based my design on a quote from The Merry Book of Christmas by Larry Wilde. It reminded me of how exciting Christmas is especially when you’re a child and see things through innocent eyes." Designed by Mark Kirwan from England.

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Best night of the year

"This wallpaper design reproduces the most representative and best night in December - Christmas. That night when you are glad to receive presents and share the happiness of snow with your family is represented in this wallpaper. Merry Christmas! I did this design because I wanted something simple and representative. I’ve picked these symbols because there are the standard things that someone should have for a good Christmas: family, snow and gifts." Designed by Andy Gongea from Romania.

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Your Love

"Your love is like a lot of Christmas balls falling from the sky… marvellous!" Designed by Bleed from Mexico.

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Typography

"As a lot of you out there, I just want the year to reach its end, press ctrl + shift + del and end process tree. Images used: sxc.hu." Designed by Lucas Zubeldía from Argentina.

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Santa Flying

Designed by Vlad Gerasimov.

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Snowboys

"December is related to the winter snow. Since I live in a tropical country and I’ve never been to four-season countries, seeing the snow falling and making a snowman would be my biggest dream ever. So I created an illustration to live up my dream a little bit." Designed by Oridus Artic from Indonesia.

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Paper Snowman

"Our wallpaper is titled “Paper Snowman”. We wanted to evoke the DIY ethos that many families will be embracing this year with simple, inexpensive decorations. Everyone’s got some paper, markers and tape lying around, and we hope this wallpaper will remind people that the holidays needn’t be expensive to be wonderful." Designed by Desktop Designing from USA.

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Smashing Skating

"This wallpaper was created on the very first snowy day of this year, and was inspired by some flashbacks from my childhood, when we spent time on the frozen lake, and it represents the demythologization of the past, trying to distance the present from the big ideas that drove the “modern” age. It took so little to make us care free those days." Designed by Bojan Ilic from Belgrade, Serbia.

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Xmas handicrafts

"We love the style of the new PS3 game „Little Big Planet“ and decided to design this Xmas wallpaper for Smashing Magazine in handicraft-style. Merry Xmas." Designed by signalfeuer from Butzbach, Germany.

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Christmas Time

"”Hang up your pretty stockings
And turn off the light
It’s Christmas time
The snow is falling on the ground
Santa claus is back in town”
(Elvis Presley - Santa Claus is Back in Town)" Designed by Natalia Valle from Brazil.

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Igniting colours

"Igniting colours. Some colours are very vibrant.Red is one of them. A festive wallpaper for a festive month :) ." Designed by kashyap k from India.

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Cold Night

"It’s a really cold night out there with a sky full of stars." Designed by Benedikte Vanderweeën from Belgium.

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The Little Sister

"My inspiration came while browsing the image banks for some images. This little girl was staring at me so I decided that I should make a wallpaper with her. The cute Little Sister…" Designed by Peter Gavrilov from Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Dark December

Dark December was inspired by my first visit to Brasov, Romania in 1999. I was 13 at the time and I thought it was the most inspiring scenery on earth; it felt like a dream. Its dark and gloomy streets and old architecture made it an experience I’d never forget. When the fog fell down over the old part of the city, I got a glimpse of what it would have been like living in Dracula’s Transylvania. Since then, I’ve always wanted to visit it during the winter months; “Dark December” is what I think it would look like”. Designed by Steve Gherebean from USA.

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Aurora Borealis

“Inspiration by aurora borealis effect that is visible in northern part of the world during winter”. Designed by Mariusz Ciesla from Poland.

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Christmas Flows

"I was playing around with some brushes and textures that i have and decided to make a desktop wallpaper. The inspiration behind the wallpaper was to make it flow. in my eyes i;ve acheived this." Designed by Simon Hagen from South Africa.

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Sticker

"It is a different approach to the topic of adorning the christmas tree. My tree is flat on paper and the bowls and the top star are added to it like stickers. It was created completely in Illustrator and Photoshop." Designed by Pica-ae or Anne Elster from Hamburg, Germany.

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Snail

"This is a Snail with a castle on his back. Castles and snails are wonderfull." Designed by Valeria Kuzminskaya from Ukraine.

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Present

"I was thinking about doing an illustration with different christmas like objects and eventually the idea of a gift loop popped up in my mind. And suddenly i wanted to create a wallpaper consisting of gift wrapping and loop. Like a close up photography of a present. So, this is my december wallpaper “Present”. I hope you will enjoy it. It was created completely in Illustrator and Photoshop." Designed by Pica-ae or Anne Elster from Hamburg, Germany.

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Twelve

Designed by Andrei Barburas from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Spamless Winter

"I’m a blogger who got a lot of spam these days on my site. The amount of spam sent to me is awfully a lot. Because spam is disturbing so I just wish I will be sent less spam in December. Since this wallpaper is for December, I made a character of spam that looks like a snowman with a wishing text that everyone will get less spam in December. " Designed by Oridus Artic from Indonesia .

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Brrr

"The motivation for the design lies in the fact that here in Toronto, Canada, December marks the start of the “really freakin cold” season. I had just discovered some of the tutorials behind 3D text in Illustrator and wanted to give it a go." Designed by Stuart Thursby from Toronto, Canada.

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Violet Night

"December can have a warm and sumptuous elegance as the Holidays approach, and folks gather together to spend time to celebrate and reminisce at the end of the year. I wanted to make dancing shapes create the letters of the month and year and create a festive feeling. I chose violet because it has a majestic feel, and it’s warm and inviting very much like a Violet Night." Designed by Paul Tamaro from USA.

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Blur typography greetings

"Choosing “Merry Christmas” was mandatory… I just wanted to exercise some techniques and to wish everyone Merry Christmas (in 26 different languages!)." Designed by Bruno Belotti from Italy.

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Holiday Sweater

“This design was created in 3D using extruded pixel fonts. The motivation behind it was holiday sweaters and snow.” Designed by Eric Petersen from USA.

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Modern Winter

“I was inspired by crisp winter days and cool colors. I wanted to keep it light and airy, yet modern”. Designed by Seth Nickeson from USA.

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Vanitas

"December is a rough month for a lot of people: holidays, Seasonal Affective Disorder, cold in the northern hemisphere. I deal with all of these every year, and every year, I find it oddly comforting to turn to the great vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These paintings are amazing still lifes, often with a theme of death, or decay, time passing, the futility of pleasure…At the end of the year, whether it’s winter or summer, it’s time to take stock, evaluate what we’ve been doing, what we want to spend our time and energy on next year, and the vanitas aesthetic is one I think a lot of us would like to tap into, even if we don’t know the name. This wallpaper was made in Photoshop CS3, by Elizabeth Yalkut, a New Yorker, with Creative Commons-licensed photography by Kessiye and freely-available fonts." Designed by Elizabeth Yalkut from New York, USA

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Lettersoup

"Being a graphic designer with a love of letterforms, especially handlettering, I enjoy exploring the ways that new software/technology can offer a new vantage point from which to explore old traditions and disciplines. This piece of abstract lettering was drawn ink on paper and brought into a 3D program I have called Modo. In 3D space I apply lighting, cast shadows, bend the surface and set the camera to look through a refractive lense which distorts the artwork in unpredictable but interesting ways." Designed by Rod Sawatsky from BC, Canada.

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Beatific

"I believe winter in the nordic countries is where the distinct, minimalistic, nordic style stem from. In winter nature here is scrubbed down to its most basic shapes and forms. I have a real hate/love relationship with winter, but I have to admit, it does serve a nice setting for the beautiful people here." Designed by Niklas Ångman from Sweden.

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Art Grunge

" I thought I would participate in this upcoming months desktop wallpapers. I made this one morning, with photoshop. I love grungy stuff, so i made that the main the theme. I added the sound waves to demonstrate a loud contrast with the floral desingns. My site is still under contructuion, since I am a novice in web design and have been teaching myself, but my url is www.stephssite.exofire.net " Designed by Zaudith Wilson from USA.

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Boys World

"I saw this scene in my dream last night. At the moment I woke up I felt that winter is coming. The boys are ready." Designed by Jana Jelovac from Belgrade, Serbia.

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World Harvest

"This wallpaper is based on a graphic novella I have been working on which should have it’s first section completed by Christmas / New Years. It is set in about 20 years time and involves a grungey story about the society we’re in danger of developing… World Harvest is about the plight of people under the foot of historic injustice… and it’s an opportunity to mix my passions for writing, photography and design." Designed by Steven Clark from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Inevitable Imagination

"The theme for the December calendar was pretty straight forward. I wanted to portray as sense of emptiness as the month of December tends to minimize the sense of joy which is apparent in the months of Summer. Sure there is the Christmas season but the winter brings out the heavy outerwear which engulfs everyone and people tend to channel out everyone around them mentally. You start seeing less and less people out and about. Everyone is blending in. It all seems a blur now. We are an imagination again." Designed by Umer Tahir from Calgary, Canada.

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The Simple Lines

"Only simple lines, reflecting the chaotic spread confusion of time and mind." Designed by Rodrigo Grola from São Paulo, Brasil.

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Natural Grid

"The theme of this wallpaper is the natural grid structure. This photograph is taken of the Tesselated Pavement at Eagle Hawk Neck, Tasmania. While it looks like a man made path it’s the result of ocean tides across bare rock." Designed by Steven Clark from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Fire

Designed by Marco Colognola from Roma, Italy.

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Candy Cane

Designed by Liz Andrade.

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Let it snow

"A fun December/winter wallpaper for those who are ready for snow. Inspiration? Well I pretty much hate the winter and the cold, but if it has to be cold it might as well snow! So this is my winter theme, letting me know there is some hope for that special white stuff falling from the sky. Be sure and download the no calendar version so you can use it all winter long. There is even a little something extra on the no calendar version :) " Designed by Steve Mullen from USA.

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Matrioshka

"I really like Eastern-European and Russian traditional art and December is my favorite month in the year. So when my eyes fell on the Matrioska I brought back from Prague, I decided to make a December calendar on this theme." Designed by Mitternacht.

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Revolutionary Love

"My December calendar actually started as a graphic for a program to collect money to build wells in African civilizations and help to really make a difference this holiday season. I liked the graphic so much that I decided to make it a wallpaper to share with everyone. The concept of Revolutionary Love is to put others in front of yourself and make sacrifices to impact the world in such a way that those who see can only see love." Designed by Mike Monts De Oca from USA.

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My White Christmas

" A tree and the snow, a very Christmas atmosphere." Designed by Ecmedia di Cucco Elisa from Italy.

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Feliz

"This is my theme for the x-mas-month December, with the best wishes to everyone. Merry X-mas and a happy, busy and successful new year! " Designed by Steffen Schmitt from Spain.

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Peace

"I’m Canadian – hence the moose! And I thought the Santa hat was a playful touch. Most importantly, no matter what or how we celebrate in December, I think we can all agree that peace on earth is a worthy goal, and that, in fact, it does begin with us." Designed by Michelle Cormack from Vancouver, Canada.

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Coke Lasts in December

"This wallpaper symbolizes that Coke doesn’t die in December, and that you should drink it. I made it because I really liked the design on coke cans, so I decided to emulate it." Designed by Hayes Potter from Raleigh, USA.

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Freak

Designed by Michal Trzebuchowski from Poland.

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Yellow Heart

"I am dedicating my December wallpaper to my favorite Japanese Rock star, Matsumoto Hideto, who was born in December 1964. My inspiration was mainly from the style of his signature guitar model, which is also called “Yellow Heart”." Designed by Athena Emily from UK.

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Illustration Wintershades

"I wanted to create a feeling of winter, cold, icy, but warm and peacefull. The idea for this design came through my mind when watching the lates video of Kylie Minogue (The One), the shapes repeating themselves. I only wanted to work with white and shadows, and for the background a bit of a winterfeeling. That ’s why I called it Wintershades." Designed by Nadine Perreman from Belgium.

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Stop Terrorism

"The design is a blend of good typography and two-tone contrast that communicates a strong message ‘Stop Terrorism’ after the recent ‘Mumbai Terrorist Attacks’. The line ‘Live & Let live’ is a very famous quote by Swami Vivekanada. The wallpaper aims to re-ignite the humanness and passion lost in us today. The design also tends to awaken the each indiviual of the nation" Designed by Aashish Solanki from India.

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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 December we’ll receive as many entries as in November. Join in next month and smashing December, folks!

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  1. 1.

    Eddy Munn (November 30th, 2008, 3:57 am)

    Nice collection of wallpapers, my favorite is Aurora Borealis!
    Nice collection SM, nice to see they aren’t all Christmas related, December is about more than Christmas. =]

  2. 2.

    Jakob (November 30th, 2008, 3:58 am)

    What a nice article!
    Love those wallpapers!

  3. 3.

    dfunkydog (November 30th, 2008, 4:11 am)

    Thanks again for a wonderful collection.

  4. 4.

    Mitternacht (November 30th, 2008, 4:18 am)

    Thanks a lot for featuring my submission! And “wow” for the collection, there’s one wp for each day of the month.

  5. 5.

    Diamond (November 30th, 2008, 4:20 am)

    I can’t wait for the new month’s coming because of these marvelous wallpapers. Thank you! 谢谢!

  6. 6.

    Andrei Barburas (November 30th, 2008, 4:37 am)

    Thank you guys for featuring my WP.
    And happy holidays to each and every reader, contributor, and administrator of SM.
    Keep up the good work guys, and I hope that Santa will bring you all the gifts you longed for.

  7. 7.

    VTVTVT3000 (November 30th, 2008, 5:06 am)

    once again Smashing Magazine gets the best wallpaper collection!!! wow!!! :D

  8. 8.

    hehe (November 30th, 2008, 5:17 am)

    I like Let it snow the most. THANK YOU! 谢谢.

  9. 9.

    leo (November 30th, 2008, 5:18 am)

    Wow, this month is great! Thanks to all participants and Smashing Magazine!
    Now I only have to choose…

  10. 10.

    faizal (November 30th, 2008, 5:43 am)

    come on.. where is 1280 x 800?

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    devsoft.mobi (November 30th, 2008, 6:00 am)

    Most wallpaper calendar look good, really like most of them

    Link [www.devsoft.mobi]

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    Daisy Morgan (November 30th, 2008, 6:16 am)

    Absolutely gorgeous, best collection yet! Might even have to replace the picture of the lovely Mr Obama to make room for one of these :-)

  13. 13.

    Sylvia (November 30th, 2008, 6:49 am)

    wow. amazing wallpaper collection! I really love some of these, can’t decide which one to use.
    I also wanted to participate - too bad my cat wasn’t in the mood for a photoshoot ;)

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    Stuart Thursby (November 30th, 2008, 7:12 am)

    Hey, thanks for featuring my wallpaper this month! Tons of fantastic pieces to give plenty of inspiration for next month, that’s for sure.

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    pati @-;– (November 30th, 2008, 7:29 am)

    I love them all, but my favorites are Smashing Skating & Inevitable Imagination.

    Happy holydays everybody! ♥

  16. 16.

    bored (November 30th, 2008, 7:46 am)

    …meh

  17. 17.

    Anwar Vazquez (November 30th, 2008, 8:07 am)

    A wonderful selection.. thanks!

  18. 18.

    Rudi Verago (November 30th, 2008, 8:26 am)

    As usual fundamental. Thanx

  19. 19.

    Erin (November 30th, 2008, 9:07 am)

    This is now my go-to source for desktop wallpaper. Great designs. Thanks!

  20. 20.

    Euan (November 30th, 2008, 10:53 am)

    these just keep getting better each month. good work people!

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    ptamaro (November 30th, 2008, 11:30 am)

    Smashing just keeps getting better, and better! You guys are awesome, thanks… I really love the monthly featured wallpapers — absolutely amazing and inspirational. I usually pick most of them and set my machine to cycle through and change my desktop every five minutes or so just to keep things fresh.

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    Alex (November 30th, 2008, 12:27 pm)

    Good

  23. 23.

    Ash Robinson (November 30th, 2008, 1:13 pm)

    You got me in the christmas spirit now :P

    good collection nice work

  24. 24.

    Installero (November 30th, 2008, 1:20 pm)

    Widescreens! We have widescreens!

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    woitekk (November 30th, 2008, 1:45 pm)

    Very nice, as every previous months. I think the “Boys World” gonna be my favorite this month. Thx a lot.

  26. 26.

    Tom (November 30th, 2008, 1:46 pm)

    A spectacular collection of creativity blended with the holidays spirit.
    Bravo to all of you!!

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    Laura (November 30th, 2008, 2:15 pm)

    I have to say, some of these are terrible. Please be more selective next time.

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    Gefunk (November 30th, 2008, 3:21 pm)

    Love the wallpaper all. I am going to throw some stuff together for next month. What’s up with the slim 1440X900 offering. I thought this was a common laptop screen>?

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    dion (November 30th, 2008, 3:26 pm)

    There are some fabulous wallpapers this month, bravo SM!
    I stick to Vlad Gerasimov designs, he’s got two published this time, so I’m gonna use “ice skaters” 1-15 December, and “santa flying” 16-31 December :)

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    Neill Horsman (November 30th, 2008, 3:28 pm)

    Aurora Borealis - Beautiful
    Bit upset I’m going to loose my November desktop I’ve come to love

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    Adrian (November 30th, 2008, 3:54 pm)

    Stunning wallpapers! Just wish there was more love for the Southern hemisphere. We have summer coming up :)

  32. 32.

    liz (November 30th, 2008, 4:00 pm)

    thanks for including my wallpaper again this month! It’s always fun to put together a wallpaper for the month… now i gotta think about January!! !:)

  33. 33.

    Rob Centeno (November 30th, 2008, 4:09 pm)

    I like:
    Smashing Skating
    let it snow
    Peace
    Coke Lasts in December
    Snowboys

  34. 34.

    John Saldana (November 30th, 2008, 6:31 pm)

    I absolutely love it!

    Nice work Smashing Magazine!

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    sy (November 30th, 2008, 7:10 pm)

    I have seen a lot better from Smashing Magazine than this collection.

    Some nice ones but most look pretty plain in my opinion.

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    Alcetic (November 30th, 2008, 9:46 pm)

    need more 1440×900!

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    tomoko from tokyo (November 30th, 2008, 10:42 pm)

    so nice to have these nice calenders!! I am googlng for all lunch time within japan and int’l site but this site is the best!! I found a lot of what I like to put on my office and home pc.
    Great work! Hope to have next year’s too!!

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    p3@rl (November 30th, 2008, 10:48 pm)

    pretty neat! thanks again for these wonderful wallpapers! i hope we get a lot more for next month! :D

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    bee (December 1st, 2008, 12:31 am)

    Great job again, downloaded 6 and can’t decide which one I like the most!

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    Peter Gavrilov (December 1st, 2008, 1:03 am)

    Great collection this month! Thank you SM ;-)

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    Daniel (December 1st, 2008, 2:30 am)

    Nice ones! But SM: Where are the 1440*900? :]

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    Francois Botha (December 1st, 2008, 2:43 am)

    I think you should block submissions if there are no 1280×1024, 1440×900 and other popular aspect ratios available!

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    Martin (December 1st, 2008, 2:48 am)

    Way too many christmas wallpapers. Almost nothing of note for those of us trying to ignore the ‘holiday’ altogether.

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    Paul (December 1st, 2008, 3:06 am)

    dang, I should have done a xmas BBQ as we are used to here in the Southern Hemisphere.

    Oh well there is always Jan calendar to design….

    Nice stuff guys, hope the winter treats you all well.

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    Nadine Perreman (December 1st, 2008, 3:50 am)

    Thanx SM, for publishing my (first) “Wintershades” wallpaper !
    Though I send also other screen resolutions (like 1440×900, my laptop resolution) to SM, but they only publish the ones asked in the guidelines.
    I will put other screen resolutions on my site.. those who like my design can download from mizzfonky.be

  46. 46.

    Andi Robinson (December 1st, 2008, 4:42 am)

    So many great choices! I don’t know which to pick!

  47. 47.

    Dennis Tobar (December 1st, 2008, 4:53 am)

    So beautiful. My favorites are Cruel Snowkids and Typography :)… Thanks for this stuff ;)

  48. 48.

    azeez (December 1st, 2008, 5:50 am)

    dis series of wall papers really rock
    wow man such creativity
    hats off to all
    and tnx 4 sharing

  49. 49.

    Leigh (December 1st, 2008, 6:05 am)

    Thanks for these! Beautiful stuff.

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    Curt Simon Harlinghausen (December 1st, 2008, 6:14 am)

    Nice, but far away from really stunning.
    I hope you get back to a better list in January.

    Stay tuned . . . .

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    destoo (December 1st, 2008, 6:37 am)

    Little Girl: desu desu desu!! (inspiration is from an anime character with a green and brown eye)

    Also another gem is the “Less spam for december” one.. The major Srisbi botnet was taken down about a month ago, you can search for McColo, so we have been getting less spam in the last few weeks because of that. Unfortunately, another one is starting to pick up.

    Thanks for the great selection, as always!

  52. 52.

    Greg (December 1st, 2008, 8:38 am)

    A bit disappointed with this months. Not as many good use of Typography compared to Novembers. Missing some colors especially during a holiday month like this one. Just not quite feeling it on these this month. But there are exceptions to my feelings. There are a few good ones in this bunch. Just an overall sensation I am speaking of. Lastly disappointed that I only have a choice of 2 wallpapers with my resolution of 2560×1600.

  53. 53.

    Jack McDaniel (December 1st, 2008, 8:59 am)

    Way cool! Thanks.

    Jack at Link [impress-design.com]

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    Ori (December 1st, 2008, 9:53 am)

    I like it! put this website in your bookmarks!

  55. 55.

    Gazulo (December 1st, 2008, 9:58 am)

    nice collection? wtf!!! most of them suck badly,…really…and they call themselves designers? come on…
    -leaving the room indignated-

  56. 56.

    Didgeman (December 1st, 2008, 10:16 am)

    I like this months selection very nice, I should of thought of this earlier though and maybe made one for Chanukah.

  57. 57.

    helaene (December 1st, 2008, 12:34 pm)

    some of these are really fantastic - thank you to all of the contributors!

  58. 58.

    Cassandra (December 1st, 2008, 1:13 pm)

    —-WARNING—
    After downloading a few of these wallpapers my dock on my Mac Lepoard OSX disappeared. My dock was missing! I checked system preferences, and re-started but no luck! Then I moved the picture files to the trash and emptied my trash and my dock cam back.

  59. 59.

    Sam (December 1st, 2008, 2:30 pm)

    I like the kids in Cruel Snowkids… but what’s up with the Snowman?

  60. 60.

    Steve (December 1st, 2008, 2:37 pm)

    @Gazulo

    Where is yours?

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    ronihind.com (December 1st, 2008, 3:15 pm)

    ooooh! Can we have a comp?

    Love a good wallpaper - these are great. One problem… which one do I choose?

  62. 62.

    Dina (December 1st, 2008, 5:14 pm)

    This is a fabulous website! I’ll come here very often!
    Thank all the designers worldwide!

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    Erik Rosales (December 1st, 2008, 6:56 pm)

    Son muy amables GRACIAS

  64. 64.

    Umer Tahir (December 1st, 2008, 7:34 pm)

    Thanks for the feature !

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    deepak k chandaliya (December 1st, 2008, 10:48 pm)

    i have been using desktops calendars from along time - but never come across such beautiful and hue of colours in them before.
    great work.keep me informed.

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    fitri (December 1st, 2008, 11:07 pm)

    thx a lot,.for the nice desktop wallpaper,.

  67. 67.

    darzee (December 1st, 2008, 11:50 pm)

    Thanks for these lovelies moments to our screen

  68. 68.

    younic (December 2nd, 2008, 1:01 am)

    thanks a lot! my favorites are “let ist snow” and the “skating couple”. @smashingmagazin: perhaps a poll would be nice? btw: would have liked some more typography wallpapers.

  69. 69.

    Wendy (December 2nd, 2008, 1:10 am)

    It’s stunning every month ! I really like it

  70. 70.

    George (December 2nd, 2008, 2:59 am)

    Excellent papers! “Have a Merry Christmas”

  71. 71.

    kong (December 2nd, 2008, 4:46 am)

    thanks,i very like this wallpaper

  72. 72.

    Claudia (December 2nd, 2008, 5:05 am)

    Lovin’ Holiday Sweater & Candy Cane!

  73. 73.

    Janckos (December 2nd, 2008, 9:57 am)

    gracias!

  74. 74.

    Ybag (December 2nd, 2008, 9:59 am)

    WOOOOWWWW
    super padres las imgs!!!

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    bilsen (December 2nd, 2008, 9:59 am)

    çok güzel dilerimki öyle olur çok sevdim

  76. 76.

    pica (December 2nd, 2008, 12:01 pm)

    thanks a lot for the feature
    a big collection this time and some are quite amazing

  77. 77.

    alf (December 2nd, 2008, 6:14 pm)

    todos están tan buenos, que es difícil elegir… gracias
    all are so good, is very dificult choise one… thanks
    ottimi tutti quanti, si rende difficile la scelta… grazie

  78. 78.

    Sholom B (December 2nd, 2008, 6:35 pm)

    I’m moved by the contributions from Serbia: they’re all dark, powerful, and specific yet seem to come from the same sensability. They’re also so dour, I’d be aftaid to live in the place if there was nothing brighter. Whatever Serbia has gone thru the past twenty years, I hope it wasn’ t as bad for happiness as it appears to have been good for art.

  79. 79.

    abc (December 2nd, 2008, 9:50 pm)

    Many wallpapers are very plain and related to Christmas.
    You guys should include only very good works of design and typography, even though there may be only a few such wallpapers.

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    machine (December 3rd, 2008, 1:21 am)

    Candy Cane????

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    lucone (December 3rd, 2008, 2:24 am)

    Thanks, they are all very cute!!!
    I got revolutionary love!

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    Pranav V (December 3rd, 2008, 5:26 am)

    The wallpapers on this page are simply amazing. Whoever made them are amazing dudes. The content of this website forms the bulk of my inspiration to do my work with photoshop. Thanks guys for the stuff. You rock

  83. 83.

    Moric (December 3rd, 2008, 11:09 am)

    lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

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    Julia (December 3rd, 2008, 7:17 pm)

    Go Umer Tahir, show Calgary some love with that gorgeous wallpaper <3

    Though, I must disagree that December is a lonely month. I love winter! Sure it’s cold, but when everything is covered in snow, it’s absolutely gorgeous.

  85. 85.

    Stephanie Ho (December 4th, 2008, 9:42 pm)

    Love all~
    Coz all very nice ^^

  86. 86.

    Stephanie Ho (December 4th, 2008, 9:42 pm)

    When can v can Jan of 2009???

  87. 87.

    Rachel (December 5th, 2008, 2:35 am)

    Thank you ! I chose The Matrioshkas ! :-D

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    Boystoyz (December 5th, 2008, 8:19 am)

    @ Sholom B
    ____________
    Thank you for your comments, Sholom. I am positive that I am talking in the name of Jana J. also, when I say that your comment is the result of what we are trying to accomplish. It feels good when someone notices our “brighter” side of “darker” life.
    BR, Bojan Ilic

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    jude (December 5th, 2008, 8:40 pm)

    amazing wallpapers, kudos! :)

  90. 90.

    RemiroQuai (December 6th, 2008, 2:30 am)

    I have to say that most of the wallpapers are gorgeous, however…
    In most of the wallpapers the “Smashing Magazine” logo is just annoyingly big of totally out of style. I dont know whether others think the same but I would very much appreciate it if there was a bit more work done on blending the logo in.

    Just my 2 cents

  91. 91.

    Sher (December 6th, 2008, 7:02 pm)

    I like “Yellow Heart”))) It looks very nice on my monitor very close to my mood)) thanks

  92. 92.

    jana (December 7th, 2008, 12:30 pm)

    Thank you Boystoyz. Sleep well.

  93. 93.

    james jeffrey (December 7th, 2008, 6:58 pm)

    amazing wallpapers.. thanks a lot.. i love it. JORDANTM

  94. 94.

    rina (December 8th, 2008, 6:53 am)

    full creativity!!! and cute.

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    J (December 9th, 2008, 2:24 am)

    Great collection with wide variety..
    For my desktop “Santa Flying” looked great..Thanks :-)

  96. 96.

    Pinturicchio80 (December 9th, 2008, 3:14 am)

    hello! where do you find the vectors for the calendars dates?
    I’d like to join the competition for January but I can’t find a little calendar in EPS or AI format.
    please help!
    thank you

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    nightfever (December 10th, 2008, 11:31 am)

    Inevitable Imagination fits best for me!
    but they’re all good!
    great job!

  98. 98.

    Steve Mullen (December 10th, 2008, 1:08 pm)

    @Pinturicchio80
    I just made my own out of type, I am sure there are some pre-built ones out there though. You might have a bit more flexibility creating your own.

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    Faby (December 12th, 2008, 5:14 pm)

    Great Wallpaper… thank you =) and Merry Christmas…

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    NENAD (December 13th, 2008, 2:45 pm)

    FUCKING GOOD PICTURES….THANKS..

  101. 101.

    Rachel (December 14th, 2008, 9:34 am)

    They are fabulous

  102. 102.

    Darryl (December 14th, 2008, 9:46 am)

    I love what you guys are doing with the monthly desktop wallpapers. Keep up the good work. Thanks

  103. 103.

    Elena (December 16th, 2008, 7:42 am)

    Holiday Card is AWESOME! I love it on my desktop….I am hooked; Thanks for being so creative & putting it out there for us!!!!

  104. 104.

    Jessie Ann Heekin (December 19th, 2008, 8:18 am)

    Thank you for sharing these! This is really unique and helpful. I will be sure to come back next month. I am thinking that in 2009 I will be blogging these, so I’ve dugg/added to my read later bookmarks. Thanks again!
    Jessie Ann Heekin

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    emiliano (January 19th, 2009, 6:39 am)

    take a look at this! Link [www.verdebinario.org]
    a calendar displaying each month original photos of ancient (’70s - ’80s) computers. A must-have for geeks!!!

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