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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

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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 45 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 what wallpapers have we received for March 2009?

[Offtopic: by the way, did you already get your copy of the brand new Smashing Book?]

Paragliding

"Some people are made for the sky, some people are made for the Earth! Clear Sky, travelling and flying that’s what we are living for." Designed by Michael Gabris from Zvolen, Slovakia.

Paragliding in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Third Month of the Year

"Playing with typography." Designed by Nikola Lazarevic from Nis, Serbia.

Third-month-of-the-year in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

March-09

"I wanted to do someting with the avantgarde font, but because its very used and its very destinct I thought why not do it in 3D. I have never seen avantgarde in 3D (its probably done, but I havent seen it). Anyways, I wanted it clean but with some color to symbolize that its still winter here in sweden but the spring is coming right up with all its color." Designed by Pål Linder from Sweden.

Spring in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Spring is coming

"Spring is coming soon and I can’t wait until the flowers start blooming again." Designed by Kathleen Verhetsel from Belgium.

Spring Is Coming in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Valentine Hangover

"I designed this for those who are sick of Valentine’s Day in mind. March may be pushing it to be hung up on some holiday but I think you have to keep the ol’ love box going all year. And it’s my birthday on the 18th! Yay! " Designed by Jason Jajalla from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Valentine Hangover in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Hug me Forever

Designed by Jana Jelovac from Belgrade, Serbia.

Hug-me-forever in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Inspiration Inspired

"The motivation for this wallpaper is David Ogilvy one of the greatest minds in advertising." Designed by Martian Design Studios.

Inspired in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Space Invaders

"The inspiration for this wallpaper comes from the classic arcade video game Space Invaders. Since the game itself is very simple, I thought it was appropriate to make the wallpaper minimalistic too." Designed by Reinis Ivanovs from Riga, Latvia.

Space-invaders in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Good Luck

"Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Though many think that it’s the “luck of the Irish” – Irish luck is indeed bad luck. (or at least that’s what I’ve heard) So this wallpaper is a play on that with the destruction of the 4 leaf clover and the words “good luck march” trying to actually wish everyone the best of luck for the month of march even though Irish luck is seen as bad luck." Designed by Lucas Tetrault.

Good-luck in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Abstract Eastegg

"My work is for the march month, thats the month off the east time, i wont to rememenber that, the eggs, the rabits, anda the place where their live and eat: the carots. I creat a beautiful composition with that elements." Designed by Ana Fernandes from Castelo Branco, Portugal.

Eastegg in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Lost Between Earth and Space

"Inspiration behind Lost-Between-Earth-and-Space came from feeling lost and confused. Sometimes you are not sure whether you are here or out there so. I created this wallpaper to constantly remind me to not always be like everyone else, to be different and to remind me that confusion is not a bad thing because it can lead to excellent ideas and great success." Designed by Marcos Garcia.

Lost Between Earth And Space in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

April loves March

"Following on from some of the valentine inspired calendars from Feb, I thought that maybe March could do with some loving to. A simple postcard from ‘April’ would spread the love." Designed by John Sheppard.

Postcard in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Pizzicato Wail

Designed by Laura Racero from Madrid, Spain.

Pizzicato-wail in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Madman

Designed by Manuel Ressel from Germany.

Madman in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

March Spring

"This one is the Beauty of Spring. As we all know March is the season of Spring in the northern hemisphere, the beauty of nature can be seen in this season. Greenery all over the place makes the Earth look like Heaven." Designed by Shashank Goswami from India.

March-spring in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Crane

Designed by filip from Germany/Spain.

Crane in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Random Assortment

Designed by Jon Victorino from Campbell, USA.

Random Assortment in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Ripe and Raw

"This wallpaper tells that with combining old and fresh designs you can come up with something that will  attract different generations:) and also this pic was shot by my girlfriend who is a professional photographer and my source of inspiration." Designed by Roy Galve from Philippines .

Ripenraw in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Urban Night

"March is that month when winter gives way for first signs of spring. The origin of the name comes from Roman *Martius* after Mars. I wasn’t able to catch Mars from my window, so I settled with Moon." Designed by Ilan Bresler from Israel.

Urban Night in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Eat Sleep Design

"After a great deal of personal searching and staring moodily into still pools of water, I made the admission to myself that these are really the only things that I need on a regular basis. It also comes as a handsome 11×17 freely available on my web site." Designed by Colin Parks from Canada.

Eat Sleep Design in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Clinging to Colour

"I designed this wallpaper as a typographic / abstract work paying tribute to my thoughts whilst creating it with the words inscribed. It was also an exercise of “less is more”, as the piece started out with many other elements and textures and was eventually reduced right back down to what you see today." Designed by John O’Nolan.

Clinging To Colour in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Magic Horse

"I like Magic and fantasy and full moon so I thought to do a fantasy with a full moon . . . finally I came up with this . . ." The wallpapers is based on the tutorial Create a magic night. Designed by Maya Sivalingam from Sri Lanka.

Magichorse in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

St. Patrick

"This wallpaper not only touches on my faith as a Catholic but also my roots in Ireland. Using a St. Patrick Prayer Card. I created an aged wallpaper bearing St. Patrick along with a little information about him other than he drove all the snakes out of Ireland." Designed by Rachel E Cobb from USA.

Stpatrick in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Computer Head

"This wallpaper features a watercolor of a guy with a computer monitor as a head, with a big eye on the screen. I work with computers a lot, and sometimes it feels like I’m turning into a computer zombie – you know, when 5 hours later you realize its 5 hours later." Designed by Nicole Hanusek from USA.

Computer Head in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Colorful March

"March is my favorite month because it starts with my birthday ! :) it brings colors and fun in my life. thats why theme is colorful march ;)" Designed by Veerendra from India.

Colorful-march in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Gritty St. Pats

Designed by Chris Wylie from Canada.

Gritty-st Pats1 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Spring Coming

"When spring’s coming you can feel it in your bones. I wanted to recreate this feeling with colors and textures. Simplifying things (too much): each month is a journey (car), but it can be creative (pencil) and magical (fractals)." Designed by PeHaa from Poland.

Spring-coming in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Stpatsday Spring

"I took a shot of the moss in the back garden to use one day in a design but have never found the need till now. With St. Patrick’s day coming up I thought it would be nice to add a four leaf clover sprouting out and highlighting this fantastic day, and add a blast of colour to peoples desktops." Designed by Gareth Brown from Birmingham, UK.

Stpatsday-spring in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Gritty St. Pats

The wallpaper was removed due to the copyright infringement.

Deep Underwater

"There are deep underwater fishes. All ocean creatures are wonderful, they always inspirate." Designed by Valeria Kuzminskaya from Ukraine.

Deep-underwater in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Spring Tulips

"Spring is ready to begin, it is my favorite season of the year." Designed by Benedikte Vanderweeën from Ronse, Belgium.

Spring-tulips in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Flowers & Fly

"Its part of the calendar cyclus, a series of artworks, painted on mesh gear. The flowers and the fly symbolize the reawakening of nature and life, the rise of spring, grey fades to colors…" Designed by Werner Wagner from Germany.

Flowers-and-fly in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Detail

"Details are small, but they can make the different… or a big poo." Designed by Alexander Chludek from Germany.

Detail in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Art Retro Motion

"I had some time off from school so I like to design and this is the result." Designed by Sipko Dijkstra from The Netherlands.

Retro-motion in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Martius Blindness

"This started out as a skull vectorization with numerology turned grunge piece with a symmetric touch march was originally named ‘martius’ after mars, roman god of war. This is the 3rd month of 09, a year of many wars; civil wars, financial wars & the never ending human wars.
In man’s quest for their own causes, they are seemingly blind to those around them while they have moved on, those left behind have to pick up the pieces and it never ends – satisfaction is not a permanent vocabulary in man’s dictionary. " Designed by Joy Lym from Singapore.

Martius-blindness in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Colour of Love

"March is the month when people start impatiently waiting for early Spring; and Spring, among other things, associates with falling in love. To me the colour white symbolizes these feelings more than any other colour. And this design is also quite personal – about my own feelings towards that maybe special someone. The surrealistic touch of bits and pieces connected with strings is how we slowly get to know the other person." Designed by Signe Cāne from Latvia.

Colour Of Love in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Scrappy Love

"This calendar reflects my love of collage and texture. I love tiny details and layers of different styles and subjects. It also showcases a love of typography and tokidoki! Its a free flowing doodle." Designed by Cara Bonsdorf from Victoria, BC, Canada.

Scrappy-love in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

First Blossoms

"First Blossom – a hand drawn tree that bursts into blossoms the first day of Spring (the 21st of March)." Designed by PeHaa from Poland.

First-blossoms in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

March Holi

"Vibrant Holi is the name I have given to this set. As you may know – “In INDIA Holi is celebrated in March and it is a festival of Colors, where people color each other with ‘gulal’ and play it with all happiness and enthusiasm.” So Say HOLI HAI!!" Designed by Shashank Goswami from India.

March-holi in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Typo

"My motivation is my imagination =D" Designed by Filip Skundric from Slavonski Brod, Croatia.

Typo in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

How Should I Fly

Designed by Sinem Şenol.

How-should-i-fly in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Japanese Girl’s Day

"This calendar design is inspired by kimonos, origami birds, and the Japanese holiday Girl’s Day, which is on March 3rd each year. March 3rd is also my sister’s birthday, so I made this for her." Designed by Viil Lid from Norway and Honolulu, USA.

Girls-day in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

The Search

"I shot this picture in Mahabalipuram, Tamilnadu. The lady was standing still for a long time. Her calm face added more intrigue to the scene n im taken aback by that." Designed by Karthik from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.

The-search in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Birds Return

"Swallows and cherry blossom not only represent spring but are omens of good fortune. This wallpaper is about the birds finally coming back after winter and having a good gossipy catch up on all the news. Things are getting brighter. Listen out in the mornings and you’ll hear them." Designed by Suzie Knight from Leeds, UK.

Birds-return in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Them

"I used the picture as a starting point for a charity event poster that i’ve done recently. i liked how it turned out and i decided to make a wallpaper." Designed by David Gheorghiţă from Romania.

Them in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Green Life

"I came up with this theme after I took one of my photographs and played with it in Photoshop. It’s my interpretation of spring and everything coming to life again during this month. Dark and gloomy days make way to sunny days and nature blossoms again. " Designed by Anca Varsandan from Timisoara, Romania.

Green-life in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

Hair

Designed by Martin Dörsch from Austria.

Hair in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009

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. Join in next month! And smashing March, folks!

The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.

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  1. 1
    Dainis Graveris
    February 27th, 2009 6:35 am

    amazing works, those inspiration pieces really made my day – what can be better then inspiring wallpaper on desktop!

  2. 2
    Micke
    February 27th, 2009 6:40 am

    My favorite is “Spring is coming”! :)

  3. 3
    Mithun Sreedharan
    February 27th, 2009 6:42 am

    Wow Really Nice!!

  4. 4
    vlad
    February 27th, 2009 6:47 am

    Wow, really excelent collection this month!

  5. 5
    Mandi
    February 27th, 2009 7:01 am

    This is the reason I look forward to the first of every month. Love the collection!

  6. 6
    DKumar M.
    February 27th, 2009 7:02 am

    Nice stuff !!

  7. 7
    Mathew Gonzalez
    February 27th, 2009 7:10 am

    I say, “Crane” is my favorite!

  8. 8
    Phobos
    February 27th, 2009 7:10 am

    Yes, one of the post I always look forward to!
    I think Gritty St. Pats is very nice.
    And I love the humour in How Should I Fly!

  9. 9
    Dennis Tobar
    February 27th, 2009 7:10 am

    Nice… I selected Space Invadres… oldies return to life! =)
    Thank you SM…

  10. 10
    The Odin
    February 27th, 2009 7:10 am

    So glad your keeping this going, some amazing designs in here!!!! thankyou muchnesss

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    mike
    February 27th, 2009 7:16 am

    These are beautiful and SO inventful! Great work to the artists and Thank you.

  12. 12
    Joren Rapini
    February 27th, 2009 7:19 am

    Great wallpapers. I think Maya Sivalingam and her “Magic Horse” piece should have given some credit to Alvaro Guzman and his tutorial http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/interface-tutorials/create-a-magic-night-themed-web-design-from-scratch-in-photoshop/

    . . . since she did almost exactly the same thing.

  13. 13
    Enk.
    February 27th, 2009 7:21 am

    They aren’t bad but I liked the Februray ones more ! – Nice work though.

  14. 14
    Daisy Morgan
    February 27th, 2009 7:23 am

    Fantastic collection (again) – thank you so much for keeping it going!

  15. 15
    Wendy V.
    February 27th, 2009 7:23 am

    Really awesome stuff!!

  16. 16
    sheryl c
    February 27th, 2009 7:40 am

    I like the last one.Very creative work.. thank you so much ;)

  17. 17
    Enk.
    February 27th, 2009 8:06 am

    Dugg!

    But must say this http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/images/wallpaper-calendar-march-09/gritty-st.pats.jpg background is already posted here http://78.46.108.98/images/wallpapers4/greenapple.jpg in the (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers Post? And you guys approved, Wow!?

    (no offence, just a question)

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    Jessica D.
    February 27th, 2009 8:12 am

    These are awesome! The Space Invaders calendar is my favorite, but unfortunately, that is a March 2008 calendar, not 2009!

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    Keith Grant
    February 27th, 2009 8:14 am

    Wow. How do I choose?

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    V@s3K
    February 27th, 2009 8:30 am

    Hug me forever very good. Thanx. My notebook get a new wallpaper ^_^

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    fp
    February 27th, 2009 8:30 am

    Great way to start a new month. Awesome wallpaper collection!

  22. 22
    kashif
    February 27th, 2009 8:30 am

    Simply , Very nice

  23. 23
    Yuriy Opryshko
    February 27th, 2009 8:42 am

    Nice ones. The absence of 1280×1024 sucks though.

  24. 24
    mojito
    February 27th, 2009 8:52 am

    eat
    sleep
    design

    some others are grat, too though

  25. 25
    Reinis
    February 27th, 2009 8:53 am

    Jessica, Space Invaders simply has monday as the first day of the week, it’s not for March 2008. Glad to hear that you like it, though.

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    Jeff
    February 27th, 2009 8:54 am

    Could you start publishing these in higher resolutions? Like 2560×1600?

    Those of us with 30″ Apple Cinema Displays are feeling… ummm… *ahem*… well, disadvantaged.

    ;)

  27. 27
    Vanilla Man
    February 27th, 2009 8:58 am

    Why all the wallpapers for wide screens only? :(

  28. 28
    Ileana
    February 27th, 2009 9:01 am

    Wow is really nice!!!

  29. 29
    Amber
    February 27th, 2009 9:07 am

    Thank goodness I have three computers–more to enjoy! Much better selection than previous months. Glad you’ve kept this going, SM!

  30. 30
    Jennifer Chiappisi
    February 27th, 2009 9:14 am

    Am I crazy or does the ‘Gritty St. Pats’ theme look a heckuva lot like the Apple theme featured on Smashing here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/12/really-stunning-desktop-wallpapers/ and linked to http://flickr.com/photos/benadamson/463523405/ ???

    Now again, I might be crazy but the ‘Ben.a’ listed at the Flickr link as owning that design probably isn’t the Designed by Chris Wylie from Canada that supposedly designed this ‘Gritty St. Pats’ theme.

    If this is the case I hope something is done about it.

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    Tom Bradshaw
    February 27th, 2009 9:28 am

    Great selection! “Playing with typography ” is my favourite!!!

  32. 32
    Mike Metcalf
    February 27th, 2009 9:28 am

    Some great work here! St. Patrick is my favorite. What’s with the poo though?

  33. 33
    Lukas
    February 27th, 2009 9:39 am

    Great collection :)

    But I have a suggestion:

    WHY not to make a some sort of SVN?

    I’m a KDE user, and I can set a folder as a gallery to be automatically changend and displayed as my
    wallpaper. By using SVN I could be able to automatically download newest set of your wallpapers
    and set them as my wallpaper gallery.

    I understand, that this site ears money from visits, so I would agree to have a few commercial on
    wallpapers or even a banner-wallpapers :)

  34. 34
    lacy
    February 27th, 2009 9:42 am

    Martius Blindness is totally great. it shows the maturity level of the artist and is totally current with the times. not as commercially beautiful perhaps, but artistically and emotionally beautiful in the extreme. this artist has real talent.

  35. 35
    smear
    February 27th, 2009 10:02 am

    I think the ‘Gritty St. Pats’ is lifting elements directly from this wallpaper:

    http://flickr.com/photos/benadamson/463523405/

  36. 36
    Matt
    February 27th, 2009 12:06 pm

    Every one with 1280×960, love it!

    Thank you a thousand times over. Awesome website, awesome community.

  37. 37
    stmag
    February 27th, 2009 12:26 pm

    well tbh, forcing designers to put “smashing logo” on wallpapers is not fair. They make all the work, you just publish and you get credit, and there will be lots of wallpapers floating around with smashing mag logo on them, even though you are basically doing nothing. If your only aim is to help designers to show off their works why logo is a must. Is flickr, deviantart etc forcing their designers, photographers to put their logo ???? of course no!!!! your way is just plain CHEAP

  38. 38
    maryam
    February 27th, 2009 12:46 pm

    My favorites are “March-09″ ,”Pizzicato Wail” and First Blossoms .
    Thank you so much …

  39. 39
    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
    February 27th, 2009 12:57 pm

    The wallpaper “Gritty St. Pats” was removed due to the copyright infringement.

  40. 40
    Janckos
    February 27th, 2009 1:04 pm

    Muchas gracias!.

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    Daan
    February 27th, 2009 1:08 pm

    Nice one, as always, happy you guys didn´t stop the series! :)

    And probably, I’ll create a wallpaper next month, then it’ll come with the launch of my new portfolio

  42. 42
    Kagayaku
    February 27th, 2009 1:11 pm

    Yay, two more months and there won’t be any fullscreen wallpapers. You might as well have stopped with the last month’s release. Thanks anyway.

  43. 43
    Wade Jackman
    February 27th, 2009 2:11 pm

    nice assortment! I think the second one is my favorite.

  44. 44
    TS
    February 27th, 2009 2:42 pm

    Eh, fairly weak selection this month. :/

  45. 45
    Jacob
    February 27th, 2009 3:24 pm

    I think the calendars are particularly good this month! Thanks guys.

  46. 46
    bloodywing
    February 27th, 2009 3:57 pm

    A… A… AAAmazing :D

    I’ll send this to my buddies :)

  47. 47
    Brandon Hansen
    February 27th, 2009 5:03 pm

    Those are gorgeous.

  48. 48
    Kevin
    February 27th, 2009 6:30 pm

    Thanks for the great calendars!!

  49. 49
    abhinav
    February 27th, 2009 6:47 pm

    hug me for ever, loast b/w ,the search are great
    all others are some what boring

  50. 50
    Justin
    February 27th, 2009 8:23 pm

    Can we have an article for physical year-long calendars? That would be sweet.

    Great calendars though!

  51. 51
    Mae
    February 27th, 2009 8:40 pm

    Love the collection of wallpapers for March! :)

  52. 52
    Brian Gottier
    February 27th, 2009 8:56 pm

    Nice. Not my taste, but nice.

  53. 53
    E.R.
    February 27th, 2009 8:56 pm

    thanks for featuring my entry!:) nice to belong with these entries, really stunning!:)

  54. 54
    phuoc
    February 27th, 2009 8:58 pm

    Do VladStudio have the release for this month?

  55. 55
    Sufiyan Ghouri
    February 27th, 2009 10:24 pm

    great collection

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    Calítoe.:.
    February 28th, 2009 12:20 am

    I love the “Hug me Forever” one, but I find the display of the calendar to be rather nonsensical. :p

  57. 57
    monopoint
    February 28th, 2009 12:38 am

    Urban night won me. great piece. thanks.
    btw, do anybody even get any use of the calendars?
    I find them just annoying and hard to use.

  58. 58
    Steve
    February 28th, 2009 1:32 am

    I look forward to my new desktop all month! haha :P
    Thanks :)

  59. 59
    Karthik
    February 28th, 2009 3:34 am

    “Hair” – amazingly awsome!!

  60. 60
    carsten
    February 28th, 2009 4:04 am

    so it will be continued?
    great!
    this month nearly every single one is so beautiful

    keep up the great wallpaper post!
    thanks ;)

  61. 61
    Zee
    February 28th, 2009 6:59 am

    I’m a writer. I’m going with “don’t bunt” — isn’t baseball season around the corner? I need the inspiration of BIG DREAMS!

    I’m soooooo glad you guys decided to keep going with the monthly wallpapers. I love my February and will HATE to give it up. But… we must learn to move on and keep the memory.

  62. 62
    Daniel Motta
    February 28th, 2009 8:17 am

    a lot of god stuff… some not good enough, though

    actually im just jealous i didnt design any of these! haha

    good post.

  63. 63
    alex
    February 28th, 2009 8:35 am

    amazing! march is really hard to design for, but these are really awesome.

  64. 64
    confetti
    February 28th, 2009 8:58 am

    @smash: so great you keep up with these wallpapers. Thanks a lot to all of you who are contributing.

  65. 65
    Bharath Kumar
    February 28th, 2009 8:59 am

    Really inspiring :)

  66. 66
    Tom Ellingsen
    February 28th, 2009 9:27 am

    Wow. By far the best wp calendar ever. Great ending, people, amazing work.

    EDIT: Wait a minute, it’s not over after all? sweet.

  67. 67
    mnaaf
    February 28th, 2009 10:09 am

    so nice ;-)

  68. 68
    Andrea M
    February 28th, 2009 10:11 am

    So glad you decided to keep going with the monthly wallpaper! Thank you!

  69. 69
    Megan
    February 28th, 2009 11:53 am

    Thanks, Smashing! I’m using the swan wallpaper for March.

  70. 70
    Luisa
    February 28th, 2009 12:03 pm

    Thanks so much for these great desktop wallpapers! Amazing

  71. 71
    sp2hari
    February 28th, 2009 12:38 pm

    Awesome stuff :)

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    calvindesigns
    February 28th, 2009 2:18 pm

    Great post guys
    calvin-t.co.uk

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    Yaara
    February 28th, 2009 3:49 pm

    The Hair is so cool!

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    Tom Dempsey
    February 28th, 2009 4:11 pm

    I would use Space Invaders but the week starts on Monday so it would be very confusing for me.

  75. 75
    Gareth Brown
    February 28th, 2009 4:14 pm

    Thanks Smashing Mag for publishing my dessktop background.

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    Imeily
    February 28th, 2009 7:16 pm

    Awesome collection. My Favorite: April loves March.

  77. 77
    Ariyo
    February 28th, 2009 8:18 pm

    good stuff.

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    Naldz Graphics
    February 28th, 2009 10:23 pm

    Nice wallpapers!!!

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    Dawn
    March 1st, 2009 12:56 am

    A really nice collectoint his month, Spring is Coming is my favourite and the one I’m now using.

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    martin lucas
    March 1st, 2009 2:09 am

    really like these calendar’s again – been using them for the last couple of months for desktops.

    i was going to choose ‘how i should fly’ for this month – but the calendar dates are wrong – whoopsie!

    gone with eat, sleep, design instead.

    keep this up,

  81. 81
    Jota
    March 1st, 2009 3:20 am

    Incriblemente buenos, el problema es que no tengo tantos monitores para ponerlos todos :P

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    Perky
    March 1st, 2009 3:40 am

    I love to have a calendar of the month on my desktop but I also like variety. I know I can always come to the web site and find what I’m looking for. I like flowers and if there is a holiday in that month I like to have something that represents that holiday. Thanks Smashing Media for giving me that.

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    Zuza
    March 1st, 2009 8:05 am

    Nice , but februar was better. Sad, that I need to change it ;) By the way: where is personas calendar? i was counting on it.

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    Fede
    March 1st, 2009 8:36 am

    Nice, but to much spring when here at the southern hemisphere is coming fall.

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    Sheri
    March 1st, 2009 8:37 am

    Just found this site in February – I love it. So glad you decided to continue!

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    drazn
    March 1st, 2009 9:36 am

    best collections of 2009!

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    Max Ross
    March 1st, 2009 9:37 am

    SO SO SO SO glad you decided not to stop doing this!!!

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    Poonam
    March 1st, 2009 10:14 am

    super stuff!! gr8 job guys..

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    Kristoffer
    March 1st, 2009 12:00 pm

    Wish I had more screens. Love this, thanks!

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    Francois Botha
    March 1st, 2009 12:17 pm

    Our calls for 1280×1024 keep going unanswered. Smashing Magazine… only YOU have the power to change this.

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    Josh Clements
    March 1st, 2009 1:30 pm

    Though I personally don’t use any of these when they are posted simply because I tend to use my own work, I get a lot of use out of taking styles and techniques from these pieces.

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    Dea
    March 1st, 2009 2:41 pm

    Good collection. My favorites are “Abstract East egg”, “Spring
    coming” and “St. Patrick”.
    I like “Good luck”, “April loves March” and “Birds Return” is interesting and I like texture and font in “Scrappy Love”.
    And thank you for march calendars!

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    Tyler Henson
    March 1st, 2009 2:47 pm

    Great collection!!!

    #3, March-09 is totally going on my desktop!! I love it!!

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    astr!d
    March 1st, 2009 2:48 pm

    martin, *thumbsup* for HAIR :)

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    Mart
    March 1st, 2009 2:52 pm

    “crane” is cool!
    and hey, nice portfolio as well! congratulations

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    Matthew
    March 1st, 2009 6:16 pm

    love this stuff, every month look forward to it. “random assortment” seems to think that march has only 28 days. troubling..

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    Jessica D.
    March 1st, 2009 6:57 pm

    Reinis – I didn’t realize the Space Invaders calendar started on Monday. I’m not used to that calendar style!

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    Angels
    March 1st, 2009 7:10 pm

    thank you!!
    this month’s selections are great! I like it better than February :)

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    edira
    March 1st, 2009 9:06 pm

    these cals are really nice ….
    Please keep me updated for other issues …

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    William
    March 1st, 2009 9:59 pm

    “How will I fly” has a incorrect calendar. It totally threw me off today but it is easily my favorite one here. PLEASE fix it! I love that picture! It would also be great(as a suggestion) to make two versions of each calendar one that has the week start on mon and one that starts on sun. Just as a thought. It always seems like the coolest ones start on the wrong day so I can’t use them
    Keep up the fantastic work!

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    Priya
    March 1st, 2009 10:02 pm

    Thanx a lot for the amazing calendars….

    These days…I wait for the new month…just coz I can download new calendars from here…You people make my day….!!!

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    Ashu
    March 1st, 2009 10:44 pm

    really its too good

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    Valerie Schuster
    March 1st, 2009 10:50 pm

    Fantastic Beautiful designs. Thank you.

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    Natrium
    March 1st, 2009 11:23 pm

    the calendars of February were better imo.
    But thanx anyway!

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    speedcu
    March 2nd, 2009 12:22 am

    wow, awesome!!

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    Rudi Lehnert
    March 2nd, 2009 12:44 am

    Thanks a lot for this fine wallpaper collection! I just recommended it to my readers:

  107. 107
    sercan
    March 2nd, 2009 1:03 am

    like “Them” too much. great work, Thanks. you always make my dayz’n desktop amazing every new month :)

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    Moric
    March 2nd, 2009 1:06 am

    thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!:)

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    hooz
    March 2nd, 2009 2:31 am

    и почему некогда нет волпейперов для 1440х900 и 1280х1024?
    and why there is no wallpapers for 1440×900 and 1280×1024 pixels?

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    akkanka
    March 2nd, 2009 2:42 am

    Thank you for still giving us calendars!

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    wendy
    March 2nd, 2009 2:48 am

    wonderful!~~

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    Paddy
    March 2nd, 2009 2:53 am

    I adore Sinem Şenol’s birds! Great work – I will check her portfolio.

    @hooz: I agree 1280×1024 wallpapers would be useful for me as well.

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    Slavomir
    March 2nd, 2009 3:01 am

    Thanks for nice calendars! I love them!

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    roshni
    March 2nd, 2009 3:35 am

    great collection and spring is coming is my favorite..

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    arunsigh
    March 2nd, 2009 4:22 am

    very nice post

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    Ian Jenkins
    March 2nd, 2009 6:29 am

    It seems that 1280×1024 is one of the most popular resolutions, yet the only wallpaper we have this month at that resolution is one with a picture of a cartoon turd on, c’mon guys…

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    Nicole
    March 2nd, 2009 8:20 am

    I LOVE “Birds Return…” Definitely my fave.

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    Dave Hornsby
    March 2nd, 2009 8:29 am

    Saw this and thought you guys with iPhones might be interested in this calendar wallpaper app and competition http://chillix.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/mycal-wallpaper-design-competition/

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    Irene
    March 2nd, 2009 8:41 am

    You guys are awesome! These wall papers are great!

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    emina
    March 2nd, 2009 9:32 am

    To bad “How Should I Fly” has dates wrong. It is off by one day. Very unique calendars, I look forward to each month to see new ideas and to have them on my desktop.

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    Nicole
    March 2nd, 2009 9:57 am

    The one with the falling birds is wrong the days are ahead by 1.

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    ravi
    March 2nd, 2009 10:08 am

    calender should be according to the fesival also….

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    shinigami
    March 2nd, 2009 11:02 am

    my fav is hug me forever

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    Veronique
    March 2nd, 2009 12:41 pm

    Yay!
    Thank you for so many choices in the 1280×960 format!!!
    Much appreciated :)

  125. 125
    NewFan
    March 2nd, 2009 1:18 pm

    I’m so glad this series is continuing! My favorite is the Space Invaders…it’s perfect for me – geeky and functional! :D

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    WebMacheter
    March 2nd, 2009 2:00 pm

    Pheeeeew… I thought you were serious about killing this contest… I’m so glad you didn’t :)

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    GONZO
    March 2nd, 2009 3:23 pm

    Great!!!
    Thanks!!! again!!!

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    bktix
    March 2nd, 2009 6:05 pm

    March-09, simply the best one!

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    Israel Vasquez
    March 2nd, 2009 6:26 pm

    What happened with the 1280 x 800 resolutions?

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    DK
    March 2nd, 2009 8:39 pm

    i love these calendars. they are actually very inspiring!

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    krupa
    March 2nd, 2009 11:49 pm

    im really glad u r keepin this going..nice work!

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    veerendra
    March 3rd, 2009 5:12 am

    Thanks for including my wallpapers.. Feeling great today .. real gift from internet world !

  133. 133
    LazaMi
    March 3rd, 2009 5:47 am

    Great stuff!
    Thank You…
    ;-)

  134. 134
    Sean
    March 3rd, 2009 10:49 am

    The ‘How I Should Fly’ calendar is wrong!

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    Molly
    March 3rd, 2009 2:13 pm

    I love “Good Luck!” by Lucas Tetrault. Great usage and understatement of graffics!

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    Maicon
    March 3rd, 2009 2:30 pm

    I loved it!! I will use Good Luck, St Patrick and Birds Return \m/

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    rfjason
    March 3rd, 2009 3:48 pm

    Ok. So, where are the good ones?

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    Kelly
    March 3rd, 2009 4:53 pm

    These are just too gorgeous for words. Thank you.

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    gyogyoum
    March 3rd, 2009 4:58 pm

    Thank you. I picked up Kathleen Verhetsel from Belgium. one. I love this color as desktop.

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    Sareil
    March 3rd, 2009 5:40 pm

    I download all wallpaper this time.
    they’er so colourful

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    nightfever
    March 3rd, 2009 6:16 pm

    wow! romanian railways in “Hug me forever” wallpaper
    that’s a nice gift for my birthday

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    Dante
    March 3rd, 2009 9:22 pm

    it’s pretty cool hah!
    i’m enjoying it!

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    whizkid
    March 3rd, 2009 10:10 pm

    Love it….thanks!!

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    Harsha M V
    March 3rd, 2009 11:48 pm

    awesome…

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    Prabodh
    March 3rd, 2009 11:55 pm

    I have only one word to say “AWESOME” …

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    eddie
    March 4th, 2009 1:41 am

    Nice wallpapers!

    Very classy! “Colorful March” is my favorite!

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    warrick
    March 4th, 2009 1:48 am

    These are very cool; love the space invaders one myself. Love to see something for the southern hemisphere; for half the world March is AUTUMN!

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    GURU
    March 4th, 2009 5:05 am

    THANKS

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    Eltga
    March 4th, 2009 5:37 am

    hug me forever is inspired from a photo that won a prize at an Orange contest in Romania http://vezi.orange.ro/editia-2008/castigatori (here you can find that picture)

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    AnchorOut
    March 4th, 2009 6:06 am

    Love ALL the beautiful art! My fav is “Birds Return”

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    zoey maybe
    March 4th, 2009 11:09 am

    wow! not bad they all look pretty good, one of my top pics is the “magic horse” it sounds crazy but i loveee when the moon is full its so radient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Barney
    March 4th, 2009 1:18 pm

    Amazing! Saved under my fav. Great work!

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    rohn
    March 4th, 2009 6:29 pm

    so many of these I really really like and could draw much inspiration from… I use dual 1280×1024 screens though. I’ll probably rework one of them to fit stretched between the two monitors, or maybe duplicated on them, but I echo others – it would be nicer to have 1280×1024 provided. That said however, I am SOOOO pleased to have these offered to us and don’t want to give the impression otherwise!

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    Zniper
    March 5th, 2009 3:02 am

    Great collection!!!

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    Hari
    March 5th, 2009 3:24 am

    All the wallpapers are Amazing!!! My Favorite is April loves March…. I really loved the collection.. Every day i use one different wallpaper on my desktop. Thnx to Smashing Magazine.

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    Veer
    March 5th, 2009 5:29 am

    all funky looking’

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    Emre
    March 5th, 2009 6:09 am

    i follow the collections every month and i think this is the best collection… thanx

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    shweta chandekar
    March 5th, 2009 6:25 am

    beautiful……………………..

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    brett
    March 5th, 2009 6:57 am

    Show some 1280×800 love man!

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    Dana
    March 5th, 2009 8:57 am

    EXCELLENT! Love them all!

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    Crystal
    March 6th, 2009 12:01 am

    Love the wallpapers! A lot of amazing/fantastic ones.. but also a few pretty bad ones that don’t match up to the others

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    Peter
    March 6th, 2009 9:20 am

    Fantastic collection!
    Smashing Magazine it’s in my favourites for an everyday look.

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    Ramya
    March 6th, 2009 5:38 pm

    very nice website..

    keep it up

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    Tanjida
    March 9th, 2009 1:25 am

    I M SPEACHLESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Sarah
    March 9th, 2009 2:04 am

    Some great designs in this collection. Being Irish though, just one drawback. When will people realise that the shamrock has THREE leaves – it’s a trefoil – and it has nothing to do with “the luck of the Irish” or four-leaf clover – it’s to do with the Holy Trinity.

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    Coral
    March 9th, 2009 2:46 pm

    These are fabulous! Thank you!

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    Erin
    March 9th, 2009 4:42 pm

    Thank you!
    great work

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    Zavael
    March 11th, 2009 4:49 pm

    really great works, but maybe some of them was just “something else”, but not so great :(
    doesnt like Space Invaders, Computer Head, Spring coming, Detail :(
    good ones: Inspiration Inspired, Good luck, Crane
    thanks for all of them

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    Dawn
    March 12th, 2009 3:26 am

    good stuff
    but where is 1024 x 768
    missing it
    waiting for more…….. : )

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    Dea
    March 13th, 2009 3:22 am

    Lucas Tetrault, you have awesome contents on your site. Thanks for wonderful tutorials…… Now I start to learn simply sketch rules. You make my day! Keep up fantastic work!

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    Cosmi
    March 15th, 2009 1:57 am

    Amazing work ! Thanks folks !

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    Wallaper
    March 16th, 2009 8:13 am

    great wallpaper collection

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    司宏兰
    March 16th, 2009 9:18 pm

    好!!

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    varun
    March 18th, 2009 4:37 am

    these r really classy….

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    Nicky
    March 18th, 2009 5:10 am

    cool, thanks

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    prathap kannukere
    March 18th, 2009 8:21 pm

    beutiful

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    Aakash
    March 19th, 2009 7:59 am

    awesome

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    justin
    March 19th, 2009 9:27 am

    Hi guys,
    Amazing work. I am really speechless . . .. . . . ..

    If i am not asking too much, i just wish that It would be great if you guys could continue this in the following months. Considering the amazing standard that you guys follow, even a couple of wallpapers would be fine.
    But do keep them coming.

    Great work indeed

    with regards
    Justin

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    LuXubu
    March 19th, 2009 5:21 pm

    awesome work !!! …. waiting for the next amazing one

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    Sun_Cica
    March 20th, 2009 12:19 pm

    Zaista lepo…

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    svo
    March 21st, 2009 3:50 pm

    too many amazing ones to pick from, now i have something to look foward to each month!

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    Goran
    March 26th, 2009 2:52 am

    Very nice job.. looking forward for the next one

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    Goran
    March 26th, 2009 2:54 am

    Nice job. Looking forward for the next one.

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    Sydney
    March 26th, 2009 3:31 pm

    I love these backgrounds I change my background every month!!!

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    MEHUL PATOLIYA
    March 28th, 2009 2:40 am

    I like this type of wallpapers…. I am a graphic designer…. & I am impress your design…. creation..& your design is very very good….

    Please give me your graphic more collection….. on my email id…..

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    HamBoneZ
    March 30th, 2009 9:07 am

    My best wallpapers are:

    Ripe and Raw
    Typo
    March Spring
    Abstract Eastegg
    Good Luck
    March-09

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    Joe
    October 8th, 2009 6:53 pm

    Smashing Magazine rules with Calender Wallpapers!

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