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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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- More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
- 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
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Typography iPhone 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:
TypeNuts iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers related to typography.
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 320x480px 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
Related posts
You might also want to take a look at the following posts:
- (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
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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 a webmaster, web designer and developer.
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January 6th, 2009 10:10 amWow. Just wow… I’m going to go make some now, I’m inspired. Thanks!
- 3January 6th, 2009 10:21 am
Holy shit! Amazing!
thanks for sharing
- 4January 6th, 2009 10:21 am
Got any for the G1?
- 5January 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!
- 6April 20th, 2010 7:49 pm
You can use Cydia Software that come when you unlock phone in that winter board application you can see the wallpaper behind your application
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- 7January 6th, 2009 10:30 am
next problem… explaining to my daughters why I had to replace their picture with HAL 9000
- 8January 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 ;)
- 9January 6th, 2009 10:41 am
Great list! I forwarded it to all my iPhone user-friends.
- 10January 6th, 2009 11:52 am
iPhone wallpapers is not really “inspirational”, I find.
- 11January 6th, 2009 11:58 am
very smart post, with things like these i will come more often with my iphone ;-)
- 12January 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.
- 13January 6th, 2009 12:16 pm
The Wii wallpapers are hilarious lol
- 14January 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 :)
- 15January 6th, 2009 12:52 pm
@amahony (#16): thanks, the description was updated.
@NetworkShadoww (#14): thanks, the link was updated!
- 16January 6th, 2009 12:56 pm
Cool…but sorry I got no iPhone.. LOL
- 17January 6th, 2009 1:08 pm
Very nice.
- 18January 6th, 2009 1:14 pm
izzz nice!
- 19January 6th, 2009 1:35 pm
Just awesome pictures!
- 20January 6th, 2009 1:58 pm
Congratulations for all the artists
- 21January 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.
- 22January 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!
- 23January 6th, 2009 2:35 pm
Excellent timing as my xmas present (to myself) gets the number swopped over tomorrow and goes public :)
- 24January 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! :-)
- 25January 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.
- 26January 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.
- 27January 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!
- 28January 6th, 2009 3:32 pm
Terrific Collection, well done!
- 29January 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.
- 30January 6th, 2009 6:36 pm
i really like this collection.
my favorite though is the violin one – though, as always, they are all smashing, - 31January 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 ] - 32January 6th, 2009 10:06 pm
great designs
- 33January 7th, 2009 12:43 am
ouhh yeah : a great collection of wallpaper but I still not have an iphone !
- 34January 7th, 2009 2:46 am
Great Post!
Keepit up!
- 35January 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.
- 36January 7th, 2009 3:02 am
Amazing designs…excellent collection of iphone wallpaper. !!!
Just great keep the good work going. - 37January 7th, 2009 3:47 am
The HAL9000 is awesome… and I love the DaftPunk one.
I just need a iphone now! >.< - 38January 7th, 2009 5:14 am
Damn! I need to get an iphone… now!
the 18 hours of work were worth it… really… =)
- 39January 7th, 2009 5:30 am
love the clown fish. good observation
- 40January 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
- 41January 7th, 2009 6:40 am
Awesome post! Love it!
- 42January 7th, 2009 7:49 am
Fantastic article, i’ll be exploring some of those sites in alot more details.
- 43January 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 - 44January 8th, 2009 5:41 am
Thanks Guys
This is amazing, N1ce Work!!!!!!!!! - 45January 8th, 2009 6:07 am
Awesome wallpapers, love them all !!
- 46January 9th, 2009 4:51 am
thanks a lot!! loving iphone n Smashing magz more and more each day!
- 47January 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….
- 48January 9th, 2009 3:09 pm
My iPhone really thanks you …
- 49January 10th, 2009 12:07 am
Nice!
- 50January 10th, 2009 3:26 pm
Wow… They’re awesome!!! I have a lot of walls but defenitely they gonna be on my iPhone screen ;)!!
- 51January 12th, 2009 12:23 pm
i must say gorgeous!
- 52January 12th, 2009 6:05 pm
Great!
- 53January 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.
- 54January 23rd, 2009 3:20 am
Very nice! Thank you!
- 55January 25th, 2009 9:38 am
Very cool, thank you! :D
- 56January 26th, 2009 7:02 am
So what about other mobile phone user who do not own i-Phone…? =(
- 57January 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)?
- 58January 29th, 2009 3:37 pm
Majority of these are awesome…just pure awesome. :D
- 59February 1st, 2009 5:03 am
awesome, thanks a lot
- 60February 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!
- 61February 5th, 2009 11:20 am
Great collection, thanks!
- 62February 6th, 2009 6:34 am
Thank Youu…*I Love These Kinds of pictures*
- 63February 8th, 2009 9:12 pm
It’s really really awesome collections. Thank You!
- 64February 15th, 2009 11:20 am
amazing, Great collection, thanks!
- 65February 15th, 2009 12:23 pm
love the fact that the iphone in Sarah Frances pictures says “4:20″ , i lol’d..
- 66March 14th, 2009 1:24 pm
Serious?
Some are ok, but they’re sure not the greatest. - 67March 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/
- 68April 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.com
- 69April 17th, 2009 10:16 am
just matchless
- 70April 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.
- 71April 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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- 73May 14th, 2009 10:18 am
muy interesantes las imagenes, nos brindan muchas ideas y nos dejan mucha enseñanza. widu
- 74May 24th, 2009 6:51 pm
very artistic!
- 75May 26th, 2009 11:08 pm
Thanks very much ! You’re the best and they are the best ! Thanks a lot!
- 76May 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
- 77June 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
- 78June 12th, 2009 12:29 am
Cool! Thank you so much Smashing!!!
- 79August 1st, 2009 9:53 am
Thanks for mentioning sciphone.net, we’ve got over 7600+ Wallpapers and growing now :)
- 80August 7th, 2009 12:38 am
g8 work dude.just now bought a iphone.really smashing magazine.
- 81August 7th, 2009 11:29 pm
Great wallpapers…thanks for the post. Came across a site which had some pretty cool wallpapers.
- 82October 1st, 2009 10:47 pm
they are GREAT THANKs ;)
- 83October 15th, 2009 9:50 am
Thanks so much. Just keep up the good works! go strong and keep going! Thanks!
- 84December 4th, 2009 9:13 am
very very mindbloing wallpaers goog job every
- 85December 27th, 2009 9:57 pm
My iphone is extremely greatful! =)
Happy holidays!! - 86January 8th, 2010 1:20 am
WOW! Amazing designs and excellent collection of iphone wallpaper. !!!
Just great keep the good work going. great article… - 87January 8th, 2010 1:22 am
WOW! great collection of iphone wallpaper. Just great keep the good work going. great article…
- 88January 9th, 2010 7:21 pm
These are soo amazing!!! I don’t really know who posted them but …. Whoever did? ….. I love you!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much. I am so appreciative because I’m sick and tired of having to use blurry or usual wallpapers. AND! These are so beautiful. Thanks SO much!
- 89January 14th, 2010 9:04 am
Awesome collection of wallpapers. I wish the iPhone had an auto rotate feature.
I have also found some great ones at: designeriphone.tumblr.com
- 90January 14th, 2010 2:40 pm
there is a monopoly of this post in its category!
ya,its true…… - 91February 2nd, 2010 1:14 am
its great of wallpapers of iphone but this is bad because its don t have category
thanks! - 92February 5th, 2010 1:20 am
I’m using an app called “iWallpapers” also contains many high-quality wallpapers(more than 16000 I guess), you could search it on app store.
- 93February 7th, 2010 2:56 am
THIS IS SOOO NICEE !! I love them all !!
- 94February 11th, 2010 1:05 am
i just can say NICEEEEEEEEEEEE,
- 95April 12th, 2010 6:39 pm
C hit!
- 96April 13th, 2010 7:40 pm
Hi. I came to this site through itouch and could see oly comments. Why so? :-(
- 97April 19th, 2010 9:24 am
nice stuff.. i njoyed…..
- 98April 22nd, 2010 9:33 am
Gotta love these wallpapers. Love the free stuff for the iphone.
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- 99April 24th, 2010 3:54 am
I enjoy from your Art…
- 100May 9th, 2010 7:37 am
Great to share.
Guy you also can visit
Nature Iphone Wallpaper
http://www.keanhui.com/archives/946 - 101May 9th, 2010 9:21 pm
Truly beautiful! This site never disappoints me!
- 102May 10th, 2010 8:50 pm
great ! thanks a lot
- 103May 12th, 2010 5:46 am
Great wallpapers thanks i downloads lots of wallpapers thanks you so much
- 104June 6th, 2010 11:03 pm
Nice post. Thanks for sharing this valuable stuff.
Guys you could also get wallpapers for your iphone @ iphonevilla.com - 105July 1st, 2010 4:08 am
Awesome collection! Check out my post I made a few iPhone HD wallpapers for download @ http://bradfordsherrill.com/web-design/iphone-4-wallpaper/
- 106July 7th, 2010 3:24 am
All wallpapers are really beautiful, especially wallpapers made by Veer.com, AlliPhoneWallpapers and Interface Lift. I love them. Thanks for sharing.
You can also check http://www.coolwallpaperfree.com/ to see more iPhone wallpapers. - 107August 3rd, 2010 9:59 am
wow!!!!!
- 108August 10th, 2010 2:17 pm
Those are really nice iphone wallpapers.
You guys might want to check out this website for Pad Wallpapers http://www.ifullscreen.com. They have a crazy selection already. I was overwhelmed just with their celebrity section. There’s even tutorials on how to make your own ipad wallpaper! - 109August 18th, 2010 5:44 pm
wow! this is what I’m looking for! i love the set, specially the paintings, and the wallpapers from vladstudio.. sweet!
- 110September 5th, 2010 11:34 am
Thank you
- 111September 6th, 2010 12:24 am
those are really beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful! thanks so much:))))))))
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