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100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers
Few products have generated the kind of hype that the iPhone has. Its beautiful design and large multi-touch screen are irresistible. Although its interface is beautifully designed, some of us want to put a little something extra in it to suit our style, personality and profession and to further beautify this magical masterpiece.
Here, we proudly present the 100 Beautiful iPhone wallpapers, designed by some of the finest and most creative artists around. The wallpapers are 320×480 pixels in resolution and are usable on the iPod Touch as well. In this post we cover typography, nature, retro and vintage, illustrations and artwork, Apple wallpapers, abstract, space. Other topics will be covered in next posts. All of the images are clickable and linked to their source. You can explore further artistic treasures and more wallpapers by using the links.
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- (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
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- Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
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Covers fresh, original and creative wallpapers. - Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop and Web Design
Covers Web design-related wallpapers, and has dozens of references for Mac fans. - 35 Space and Nebula wallpapers
Typography iPhone Wallpapers
TypeNuts iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers related to typography. by Veer.com. Registration is required to download the wallpapers
ILoveTypography iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of typography-related iPhone wallpapers.
Tylor J. Reimer’s iPhone Wallpapers
A collection of various wallpapers, from TV shows and music to nature and abstract.
Poolga iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collectio of beautiful wallpapers created by various designers across the globe. Typographic wallpapers there are just amazing.
‘We Made This’ iPhone Wallpapers
A series of iPhone wallpapers by Alistair Hall James White.
Veer iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers by Veer.com. Registration is required to download the wallpapers.
Various typographic iPhone wallpapers:
Nature
AlliPhoneWallpapers
A huge selection of various wallpapers, and very beautiful landscape wallpapers.
Interface Lift iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers, currently almost 400 wallpapers are available in the resoultion 320×480 for free download.
Interface Lift iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers, currently almost 400 wallpapers are available in the resoultion 320×480 for free download.
Retro and Vintage
Cosmic Retro iPhone Wallpapers
A series of iPhone wallpapers by James White.
iPhone iTouch Wallpaper Pack
By GabO-GarabO. The vintage look rocks, baby!
Airbag iPhone Wallpapers
Two beautiful sets of iPhone wallpapers, created by Greg Storey.
The Antidote iPhone Wallpapers
Poolga iPhone Wallpapers
Very original, beautiful and creative iPhone allpapers from various designers across the globe. Very impressive.
Illustrations and Artwork
Camilo Bejarano’s iPhone Wallpapers
l’Amour iPhone Wallpapers
2 love-related iPhone wallpapers.
CMYK Lovers
Created by Guilherme Marconi.
Glennz iPhone Wallpaperse
A collection of very beautiful iPhone wallpapers (mostly illustrations).
Painting
A collection of cute painted wallpapers designed by Atelier 302.
Coffee iPhone Wallpapers
A collection of twelve 320×480px Coffee Sketchtoon illustrations. These wallpapers are free for personal use on your iPhone, iPod touch or Palm OS device. Designed by Mike Rohde.
Vladstudio iPhone Wallpapers
A collection of original and beautiful iPhone wallpapers, designed by Vlad Gerasimov.
Smart iPhone Wallpapers
A couple of beautiful Smart iPhone wallpapers.
Pedro Dale’s Collection
A collection of iPhone wallpapers related to art and culture.
Pixelgirl iPhone Wallpapers
67 various iPhone wallpapers, mostly cartoons and illustrations.
Iconfactory iPhone Wallpapers
86 various iPhone wallpapers, mostly cartoons and illustrations.
Various illustrations and artwork for iPhone:
Piktorama iPhone Wallpapers
Designed by Rodrigo Braga.
Apple iPhone Wallpapers
Abstract
Sarah France’s iPhone Wallpapers
iPhone Wallpapers Storytellin
30 various iPhone wallpapers.
Abstract Waves iPhone Pack
6 abstract iPhone wallpapers.
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Fractal Wallpapers iPhone Pack
11 abstract iPhone wallpapers.
Abstract iPhone Wallpapers
A huge selection of abstract wallpapers.
Cosmic & Space
Space iPhone Wallpapers
8 space-backgrounds for iPhone/iPod.
Cult
Sources and Resources
Here you’ll find links to further related articles and resources:
- iPhone at Mo
- Apple Are iPhone Wallpapers
- thememyphone.com
- iPhone Wallpapers Flickr Pool
- iPhone – Wallpapers Flickr Pool
- iPod Touch Wallpapers Flickr Pool
- Quality iPhone Wallpapers
- sciphone.net
A growing collection of iPhone and iTouch wallpapers. 25 categories, thousands of wallpapers. - The Apple News Tree iPhone Wallpapers
Thousands of wallpapers in over 30 categories, including gaming, abstract, textures, sports, space, nature, military, cars and architecture. - Quality iPhone Wallpapers Flickr Set
- 320×480 iPhone Wallpaper Flickr Pool
- AirBag iPhone Candy
- PixelGirl iPhone Wallpapers
67 various wallpapers for iPhone. - Iconfactory iPhone Wallpapers
- alliPhoneWallpapers.com
A growing collection of various iPhone wallpapers. - AisleOne Typographic iPhone Wallpapers
- Poolga iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of unique, beautiful and creative iPhone wallpapers. - Flickr Pool: iPhone Wallpapers
- 55 Most Beautiful Apple iPhone Wallpapers
Collection of beautifully designed Apple iPhone wallpapers for your desktop. - Tutorial:iPhone-Style Icon
- 15 Best iPhone Icon Sets of 2008
- Create iPhone Wallpaper Using iPhoto 08
Shows how to create iPhone screen-sized wallpapers using iPhoto 08. - MorgueFile iPhone Wallpaper Pack
47 iPhone wallpapers, mostly textures and photos. - Make your own iPhone Wallpaper
Adobe Photoshop tutorial on creating iPhone wallpaper. - 370 iPhone and iPod Wallpapers
Download 370 iPhone wallpapers in this pack designed by manicho. - PhotoWalls for iPhone
35 iPhone wallpapers in this pack - InterfaceLift iPhone Wallpapers
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You might also want to take a look at the following posts:
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- Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
Covers wallpapers, dev kits, Flickr pools, widescreen and HD monsters and even wallpaper-related social communities and wallpapers for gamers. - More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers
Covers fresh, original and creative wallpapers. - Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop and Web Design
Covers Web design-related wallpapers, and has dozens of references for Mac fans. - 35 Space and Nebula wallpapers
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Vailancio Rodrigues, born and currently living in scenic beauty of Goa, spent most of his childhood in art and creativity. At present a College student who likes to try and do different things at every moment. Also an webmaster and web designer – Tiny Goa and Pixel Art.
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- 3January 6th, 2009 10:04 am
Wow – this is awesome and very useful … congrats on creating the one-stop iPhone wallpaper shopping source on the web … bravo!
- 4January 6th, 2009 10:10 am
Wow. Just wow… I’m going to go make some now, I’m inspired. Thanks!
- 5January 6th, 2009 10:21 am
Holy shit! Amazing!
thanks for sharing
- 6January 6th, 2009 10:21 am
Got any for the G1?
- 7January 6th, 2009 10:29 am
I love the designs, but there’s not much point in these wallpapers as you only see them when your screen is active but the phone is locked. Apple certainly went full-of-function over pointless form on their interfaces!
- 8January 6th, 2009 10:30 am
next problem… explaining to my daughters why I had to replace their picture with HAL 9000
- 9January 6th, 2009 10:32 am
Wonderfull & very funny wallpapers! Personally love the Daft Punk wallpaper from James White! Thank youw!
Lol at fijis, yeah that one is cool too, someone should make App for that with sounds and stuff! Maybe really capable to have a sort of a conversation ;)
- 10January 6th, 2009 10:41 am
Great list! I forwarded it to all my iPhone user-friends.
- 11January 6th, 2009 11:52 am
iPhone wallpapers is not really “inspirational”, I find.
- 12January 6th, 2009 11:58 am
very smart post, with things like these i will come more often with my iphone ;-)
- 13January 6th, 2009 12:12 pm
FYI: The Pixelgirl iPhone Wallpapers link (in the post) is wrong, it links to IconFactory. Thanks for featuring my Robot wallpaper btw.
- 14January 6th, 2009 12:16 pm
Another great source for iPhone Wallpapers is iPod Paper! Check it out, some very good movie related wallpaper, musician wallpaper, wallpapers from illustrators etc.
- 15January 6th, 2009 12:16 pm
The Wii wallpapers are hilarious lol
- 16January 6th, 2009 12:38 pm
The description bellow #1 is wrong – it’s referring to Veer’s link ( #6) instead of TypeNuts.
Great post, definitely will lose some hours downloading iphone wallpapers :)
- 17January 6th, 2009 12:52 pm
@amahony (#16): thanks, the description was updated.
@NetworkShadoww (#14): thanks, the link was updated!
- 18January 6th, 2009 12:56 pm
Cool…but sorry I got no iPhone.. LOL
- 19January 6th, 2009 1:08 pm
Very nice.
- 20January 6th, 2009 1:14 pm
izzz nice!
- 21January 6th, 2009 1:35 pm
Just awesome pictures!
- 22January 6th, 2009 1:58 pm
Congratulations for all the artists
- 23January 6th, 2009 2:03 pm
Hey there, thanks for featuring our wallpapers – the We Made This set. You’ve credited them to James White, but they’re by Alistair Hall.
- 24January 6th, 2009 2:31 pm
ohooo really really cool wallpapers!!
massive big up to the artists!!! and for you for putting them together!! :D:D
cheers!
- 25January 6th, 2009 2:35 pm
Excellent timing as my xmas present (to myself) gets the number swopped over tomorrow and goes public :)
- 26January 6th, 2009 2:36 pm
Hey, thanks for mentioning of my Sketchtoon Coffee iPhone Wallpapers, I’m very honored to be included in the top 100! :-)
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- 28January 6th, 2009 2:42 pm
As always, Smashing kicks out another great post! If only I could choose which one of the 30 I like the most to put on my iPhone… Decisions, decisions.
- 29January 6th, 2009 2:44 pm
You forgot the big source of iPhone Wallpapers in the planet
http://www.flickr.com/groups/iphonewallpapers/pool/Open to everyone, nicely organized with tags.
- 30January 6th, 2009 2:57 pm
That was crazy. I was just thinking about changing my iPhone Wallpaper and thought: “let’s check out if there is something on the smashing magazine.” I typed in the url and what did I have to read at the first headline? “100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers”. You guys are just awesome. Allways the right thing at the right time! Thanks!
- 31January 6th, 2009 3:32 pm
Terrific Collection, well done!
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- 33January 6th, 2009 5:51 pm
Mmm, lots of win here. It’s interesting that the most compelling ones (for me at least) happen to be nature and astronomy related.
- 34January 6th, 2009 6:36 pm
i really like this collection.
my favorite though is the violin one – though, as always, they are all smashing, - 35January 6th, 2009 9:36 pm
I love the Daft Punk one!
most of them are amazing, but it would be great if you could do something similar for other resolutions
I mean 240×320, which is more common than the applemobile toyiPhone. I am suggesting some themes for Nokia’s :-”
[which I probably will never get on this kind of site :( so... skip this comment ] - 36January 6th, 2009 10:06 pm
great designs
- 37January 7th, 2009 12:43 am
ouhh yeah : a great collection of wallpaper but I still not have an iphone !
- 38January 7th, 2009 2:46 am
Great Post!
Keepit up!
- 39January 7th, 2009 2:47 am
I think these are really cool. I wish you had cited who all the artists were though. I know you linked to the original compilation sites in the titles, but I would have thought clicking on each image would take to me to the page with the artist’s name.
- 40January 7th, 2009 3:02 am
Amazing designs…excellent collection of iphone wallpaper. !!!
Just great keep the good work going. - 41January 7th, 2009 3:47 am
The HAL9000 is awesome… and I love the DaftPunk one.
I just need a iphone now! >.< - 42January 7th, 2009 4:31 am
Great list! I also like beautiful girls on my iPhone, Christina Aguilera for example :)
- 43January 7th, 2009 5:14 am
Damn! I need to get an iphone… now!
the 18 hours of work were worth it… really… =)
- 44January 7th, 2009 5:30 am
love the clown fish. good observation
- 45January 7th, 2009 6:30 am
Great stuff. Sadly I got no iPhone but I edited all of ‘em to my 240×320 phone screen and all are looking good :D
- 46January 7th, 2009 6:40 am
Awesome post! Love it!
- 47January 7th, 2009 7:49 am
Fantastic article, i’ll be exploring some of those sites in alot more details.
- 48January 7th, 2009 12:29 pm
Great collection! We have a lot of cars @ http://wallpapers.motorawards.com
- 49January 7th, 2009 2:58 pm
Congratulations! – on Alltops Design you were the most read article via popurl.
Thank you for kindly adding my designs, I am very flattered.
Best,
Sarah France - 50January 8th, 2009 1:24 am
A nice collection of iphone wallpapers can be also found on Iphone Wallpapers.
- 51January 8th, 2009 5:41 am
Thanks Guys
This is amazing, N1ce Work!!!!!!!!! - 52January 8th, 2009 6:07 am
Awesome wallpapers, love them all !!
- 53January 9th, 2009 4:51 am
thanks a lot!! loving iphone n Smashing magz more and more each day!
- 54January 9th, 2009 12:33 pm
The Twitter.com Fail Whale is up there… that’s not really an iPhone wallpaper… it was stolen from another website as a screenshot. HMMMM….
- 55January 9th, 2009 3:09 pm
My iPhone really thanks you …
- 56January 10th, 2009 12:07 am
Nice!
- 57January 10th, 2009 3:26 pm
Wow… They’re awesome!!! I have a lot of walls but defenitely they gonna be on my iPhone screen ;)!!
- 58January 12th, 2009 12:23 pm
i must say gorgeous!
- 59January 12th, 2009 6:05 pm
Great!
- 60January 13th, 2009 8:48 am
This is a great collection thanks.
The only problem is, this page (and most smashing magazine posts) are painful to view on the iPhone or iPod Touch even on wifi because they’re so long.
- 61January 23rd, 2009 3:20 am
Very nice! Thank you!
- 62January 25th, 2009 9:38 am
Very cool, thank you! :D
- 63January 26th, 2009 7:02 am
So what about other mobile phone user who do not own i-Phone…? =(
- 64January 29th, 2009 1:51 pm
These are great, but when are ya’ll going to do a post with wallpapers for the G1 (or any other phone for that matter)?
- 65January 29th, 2009 3:37 pm
Majority of these are awesome…just pure awesome. :D
- 66February 1st, 2009 5:03 am
awesome, thanks a lot
- 67February 3rd, 2009 4:53 am
Please, do us all a favour and skip the “(really)”´s in the subject. Seems to me like every 2nd new blog entry start with “xx (really) beautiful/useful/meaningsless/… yyy”. We all know – you really _do_ great lists on everything.
Cheers!
- 68February 5th, 2009 11:20 am
Great collection, thanks!
- 69February 6th, 2009 6:34 am
Thank Youu…*I Love These Kinds of pictures*
- 70February 8th, 2009 9:12 pm
It’s really really awesome collections. Thank You!
- 71February 15th, 2009 11:20 am
amazing, Great collection, thanks!
- 72February 15th, 2009 12:23 pm
love the fact that the iphone in Sarah Frances pictures says “4:20″ , i lol’d..
- 73March 14th, 2009 1:24 pm
Serious?
Some are ok, but they’re sure not the greatest. - 74March 15th, 2009 6:22 pm
WOW!!…Beautiful set of iPhone walls :o) check mine out here: http://inspiks.com/2009/02/09/iphone-wallpapers-gallery/
- 75April 4th, 2009 6:53 pm
Dude, you guys should display the art of Aislelyn. It’s so original, get in touch and see if the art can be featured for the next iPhone wallpaper review. Featured on Macciti.com (http://macciti.com/category/new-releases) and http://aislelyn.deviantart.com.
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- 77April 10th, 2009 7:32 pm
I really like some of these. Many of them seem a bit cliche and typical. You can download wallpaper patterns for your iphone or ipod touch at Farmidable. http://www.farmidable.com
- 78April 17th, 2009 10:16 am
just matchless
- 79April 20th, 2009 12:55 pm
Very nice selection. Nature ones look the best. iPhoneHDR.com has a bunch like that if you like those kinds of wallpapers.
- 80April 23rd, 2009 3:01 pm
Not trying to link drop here, but i ran across some of the coolest sports iphone wallpapers i’ve seen located at joyale. the url for them is http://www.joyale.com/blog/item/root/pro-team-iphone-wallpapers.
Thanks for posting these wallpapers. i like to change mine alot. I specifically like the “still no messages” one the best
- 81April 25th, 2009 2:19 am
Wow, most of these are fantastic. Having just started a graphic design course, these wallpapers are very inspiring.
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- 83May 14th, 2009 10:18 am
muy interesantes las imagenes, nos brindan muchas ideas y nos dejan mucha enseñanza. widu
- 84May 24th, 2009 6:51 pm
very artistic!
- 85May 26th, 2009 11:08 pm
Thanks very much ! You’re the best and they are the best ! Thanks a lot!
- 86May 29th, 2009 6:15 am
Thank you for the great backgrounds. The expanding choices for the i-Phone is simply amazing. Some really cool choices here!
James
- 87June 11th, 2009 9:23 pm
Plase, SM, you really need and iphone theme. I cant load more than one quarter of the page, cause my iphone doesn’t habe more memory
- 88June 12th, 2009 12:29 am
Cool! Thank you so much Smashing!!!
- 89August 1st, 2009 9:53 am
Thanks for mentioning sciphone.net, we’ve got over 7600+ Wallpapers and growing now :)
- 90August 7th, 2009 12:38 am
g8 work dude.just now bought a iphone.really smashing magazine.
- 91August 7th, 2009 11:29 pm
Great wallpapers…thanks for the post. Came across a site which had some pretty cool wallpapers.
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- 93August 17th, 2009 6:21 pm
Wow, some of those are amazing. Another good site to use is freewallpaper4.me
- 94September 5th, 2009 3:26 am
wowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!1
THIS IS AWESOME COLLECTION!!!!!!!
THANK U VERYYYYYYYYY MUCH.
”””’love”””’ u smashing magazine!!!!!!!!! - 95September 28th, 2009 5:39 pm
Cool iPhone wallpapers are also available in this site 550+ Brilliantly Astounding Apple iPhone Wallpapers Packed in 27 Sets.
- 96October 1st, 2009 10:47 pm
they are GREAT THANKs ;)
- 97October 15th, 2009 9:50 am
Thanks so much. Just keep up the good works! go strong and keep going! Thanks!
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