Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 2009
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 60 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 May 2009?
Hot Dog
"Hot dog! It’s Spring already?! Time to break out the barbeque." Designed by Mediumjones from USA / Canada.
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Dreams & Aspirations
"Colorful and vivid wallpaper that fits your screen perfectly in the month May." Designed by Vincent Vander Cruyssen (ViniMan) from Belgium.
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Astronaut
Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Russia.
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Lifegrid
"A lifegrid for may: births, birds, flowers, blossoms, last month of Spring." Designed by Benedikte Vanderweeën (Bene) from Belgium.
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Mother’s Day
"I designed this wallpaper to celebrate Mother’s Day. This is a picture of day lilies in our front yard. They remind me of fallopian tubes – the beginning of life. With issues of women’s rights to choose, it is refreshing to watch my children live and grow." Designed by Millicent Bowman from United States.
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Today isn’t just another yesterday
"I wanted to explore the idea that each day is unique and filled with new possibilities. That there are little opportunities in each day to break out of the routine, if we look for them!" Designed by Ben White from UK.
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Spring
Designed by Tatiana Valkovskaya from Ukraine.
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No Limits
"In this design I mainly focus, there are no limitation for imagination and for ideas. And I used Jamie Paolinetti’s quote “Limitation live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations our possibilities become limitless”" Designed by Maya Sivalingam from Sri Lanka.
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Pink Flower
"Well, here in Chile it’s Autumn, but this is a gift to my friends on the northern hemisphere, enjoy the Spring!" Designed by Dusan Vlahovic from Chile.
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Monster at the Park
"Stranged Monster got scared on a cute purple little bird. Made from stock vector and photo. Created using both raster and vector application to make the scene realistic and fun in a way." Designed by Edward Calugtong from Philippines.
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Melancholy
"Just remembering my time spent two years ago in Sibiu, when it was our European Capital of Culture." Designed by Anca Varsandan from Romania.
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Orchids
"In life everything must have an aim, except orchids. Nero Wolfe" Designed by Valentina Rachiele from Italy.
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May I kiss you?
Designed by Alexandru Precup from Romania.
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Creative Spark
"The entire concept of this art came out when i was playing around with various photoshop brushes. The effect came in so beautifully that i instantly named it Creative Spark." Designed by Vinod Batus from India.
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Bob Dylan: “You’re a Liar”
"From Wikipedia: Dylan undertook a world tour of Australia and Europe in the spring of 1966. Each show was split into two parts. Dylan performed solo during the first half, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. In the second half, backed by the Hawks, he played high voltage electric music. This contrast provoked many fans, who jeered and slow handclapped. The tour culminated in a famously raucous confrontation between Dylan and his audience in England. At the climax of the concert, one fan, angry with Dylan’s electric sound, shouted: “Judas!” to which Dylan responded, “I don’t believe you … You’re a liar!” He then turned to the band and, just within earshot of the microphone, said “Play it f****** loud.” They then launched into the last song of the night: “Like a Rolling Stone”.
On May 24 the world celebrates the birthday of Rock’s greatest poet. Also in this month, Bob Dylan is releasing his 33rd studio album. This wallpaper is a tribute to him. " Designed by Rodrigo Esch from Brazil.
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Armchair
"It’s time to relax!" Designed by Christian Pucci (miniMAC) from Italy.
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Don’t forget May 12th 2008
"Don’t fotget 12 May 2008. This is designed to commemorate Sichuan earthquake, which happened one year before.
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake or Great Sichuan Earthquake. Official figures state that 69,227 are confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing." Designed by Evan from China.
Hmmmm… May
"Cartoon green worm poking out of the ground wearing a bib." Designed by Josh Cleland from United States.
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San Fran
"San Francisco is shaping up to be one of my favorite travel destinations so this is for you San Fran!" Designed by Ole Martin Buene from Norway.
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Moonaway
Designed by Raffaele Tannoia from Sweden.
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The Workday
"The work day, when we tack a breack and go to a quiet place…" Designed by Ana Fernandes from Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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May Dreams
"Pursue your dreams…They’ll take you places! My brother took this picture just before sunrise.The place is 20 miles from our home. We often go there on weekends to get away from the noise and commotion of the city… standing on top of that cliff somehow makes you feel special, yet in a simple way. I hope you’ll like it." Designed by Ayhan Kamil from Sheffield, United Kingdom.
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Budding
"The trees outside were budding beautiful purple flowers. Everything is blooming and turning into a beautiful spring." Designed by Kevin Shorter from Winston Salem, NC USA.
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Cherry Blossoms
"A couple of weeks ago I was walking in our garden and saw this bee on our cherry tree. It felt like spring is here and I was inspired to design this wallpaper." Designed by Rawan Soudah from Jordan.
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Mystic Spell
"I have myself designed this picture right from the portrait of this lady to the main background effect by using the brushes in photoshop. The inspiration behind this is nothing but Smashing magazine itself and with so many creative graphics & articles that are every now and then displayed in your magazine i think we designers can never fall short of any inspiration. This is my first wallpaper with SM & i just pray that there will be many more to come." Designed by Milind Bhosale from India.
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Flower Emergence
"Summer is approaching, the flowers are emerging, each of my senses awaken." Designed by Sonia Gagnon from Canada.
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Cute Evilness
Designed by Martha Garzon from Colombia / USA.
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Stamp Collection
"I have been recently looking at some interesting russian stamps and thought it would be a great desktop calendar idea." Designed by Chris Wylie from Canada.
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London Underground
"We designed this wallpaper to remember our May 2008 trip to London. The photo was taken with a simple digital camera and then elaborated to exalt the color of the typical london underground entrace." Designed by Alt Design Web Agency from Venice, Italy.
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Zen of Golf
Designed by John Morris from USA.
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Showers Bring Flowers
"A colorful depiction of “April Showers, bring May flowers”. A sprinkler is watering the lush green grass that the word May is sitting in." Designed by Adrienne Levin – Moonshine Design.
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Polzeath Beach
"Crowds swarm into toe water as summertime hits Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, United Kingdom." Designed by Irving Bartlett from United Kingdom.
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Cast a Clout
"My design is based on the old saying ‘Ne’er cast a clout till May be out’ meaning ‘Don’t take off you Winter coat/or clothes until the end of May’. This old lady has taken this advice to the extreme. She refuses to let her Grandson remove his winter vest. Instead she washes the vest and hangs it out to dry with the boy still inside it." Designed by Nicki Algar from UK.
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Cinco de Mayo Wrestler
"Wanted to celebrate the best party day of the month and what better image than a mexican wrestler." Designed by Joven Orozco from USA.
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Partey
"The wallpaper pack is something between photography and abstract. Basically it is a photomanipulated photography from my last party.
There is no real idea behind this wall, it just looked awesome as this Vodka/Energy drink stood there under this blue LED lamp. So I took a photo of it and manipulated it for wallpaper purposes." Designed by Michal Slupczynski from Poland.
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Illustration Woody
"”Woody:” One of a series of cinema-inspired portraits by Jordan Kerfeld, a Kansas City filmmaker and illustrator." Designed by Jordan Kerfeld from Kansas City, MO USA.
Create your own God
"Create your own God, be your own sunshine!" Designed by Charvi Sarfare from India.
Petals
Designed by Nenad Remenar from Croatia.
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Fresh Cloud
"These days, we’re seeing a lot of tags clouds on the web. I illustrated that for the month of May, with a choice of 2 smashing color backgrounds: refreshing green for the freshness of the nature waking up or vivid orange for the warmth of the sun coming back…" Designed by Julie Lê from Quebec, Canada.
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Listen to Groovy May
"What are you listening on this Groovy May?" Designed by JP Fuam from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A Precious Notion
"Focusing on typography, I’ve tried to bring this concept to life in which a message is brought forth dealing with the sacrifice of life." Designed by Umer Tahir from Canada.
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Spring
"This wallpaper was made just for fun and to share it with other people :)" Designed by Alexandra Schinck (Yvaine2010) from Germany.
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Fete Muguet
"Every 1st May is celebrated in France with bouquets of delicate Lilies of the Valley (muguet). I wanted to join this tradition and wish you all happiness!" Designed by PeHaa from Poland.
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Smashing Disguise
"Little strange and funny like May – some funny people or “things” Smashingly disguiseing like each other :) … Fashion in the funny way at a bus stop somewhere … Or maybe these are some alients going somewhere and just witing for the bus like everibody else (and not with alientcrafts like we all think ) :) – it’s just a nice and misterionus picture to thing about while looking at your destop ." Designed by Nevena Nikolcheva (NEN) from Bulgaria.
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Red Pencil
"Inspired by the mess on my table." Designed by Petr Vaclavek from Czech Republic.
Fishy
"A little fish character I came up with while trying out typographic plays on the letter ‘a’. I tried to keep it simple and uncluttered, just the way I like my desktop." Designed by Vlad Tamas from Romania.
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Cityimage
"Outline of a city and its shadow in a moon. Story between trees and city buildings." Designed by Ana F. from Slovenia.
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iPod-Capsule
"May is the start of summer season. we feel sick to see burning hot sun and our eyes wish to see something cool and light. So I avoid the dark color and heavy design. “Here’s a nice and minimalistic wallpaper to decorate your desktop.Enjoy it with iPod goodness!”" Designed by NarjisNaqvi from Pakistan.
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Motherly Love
"The inspiration behind this piece came from the photo I took of my son and I. It showed me how much I meant to him just the way he leaned on to me and looked so peaceful I’ve decided to play a mother’s team of course because of the mother’s day and because this is the first year that I am going to celebrate mother’s day as a mother and I wanted to dedicate this wall paper to all the mothers out there." Designed by Emina D Sehovic from Albany, NY, USA.
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Mothers Day
"Second sunday of May is celebrated as Mother’s Day. This year the day comes on May 10. For this theme, i have made a pencil sketch and made some alterations on the scanned image." Designed by Abhishek Ravindran from India.
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MetLife
"I enjoy playing around with my photographys, making my own wallpapers, and thought that this one would fit the month that my birthday is in :)" Designed by Gisli Már Viglundsson.
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May Yay
"I looked at the word May and thought I could mirror it nicely to form the word Yay, so May Yay!" Designed by Loann West from Boston, MA, USA.
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M
"The wallpaper is inspired from the floor patterns observed in Sikh Gurudwaras. Coupled with the Hindi rendition of ‘May 2009′, the wallpaper has been lent an modern-exotic feel." Designed by Aditya Bhandari from India.
Mayday
"A typography design. May as 5th month. 5 link together can be sEEN like a link of people (victim). Calling for mayday." Designed by Vina from Indonesia.
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Design & Technology
"Design & Technology is a wallpaper created to enjoy colours, lines, forms, words and ideas. It’s a composition made out by a memeber of gelattina, where our main porpouse is to combine design with technology for the web." Designed by Débora Márquez from México.
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We fight our skate spots!
"A skate spot inspired May Wallpaper. Assembled with freebie textures and brushes and multiple overlay, desaturation and motion blur filters in CS4." Designed by Antonio Hadrovic from Croatia.
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Spring
"May is the last chance to enjoy Spring. The flowers, the green grass, and the beautiful weather. It’s also the month of my birthday :)" Designed by Mona Parvin from USA.
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Bounce
"Here are some cute, bright and happy creatures, bouncing around ready for the summer!" Designed by Chris Alexander (Yipori) from England.
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May Footprint
"Just a cute design made by me. Hope you like it…" Designed by Jonah Enrile from Philippines.
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Let’s go have a camp fire!
Designed by Tahir from USA.
Mailbox
"And old mailbox from Cafund?…
(Cafundo is an portuguese word/expression for somewhere that is far away from everything and everyone…)" Designed by Cafundó Estúdio from Brazil.
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Dandelion
Designed by David Beljan from Slovenia.
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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. Join in next month!
What’s your favorite?
What’s your favourite theme or wallpaper for May? Please let us know in the comments! And smashing May, folks!
































































molly
April 30th, 2009 2:44 amvery nice
Nathan
April 30th, 2009 2:45 amHurrah – I really look forward to these being released. Thank you SM.
Rainer Bendig
April 30th, 2009 2:45 amGreat collection again. Thanks!
Zac Johnson
April 30th, 2009 2:49 am“Monster in the Park” is my favorite of the bunch.
uwalter
April 30th, 2009 2:52 amfavorite: Astronaut
leplay
April 30th, 2009 2:53 amDon’t forget 12 May 2008.
Abhishek
April 30th, 2009 2:53 amEvery month you outdo your previous collection!
Dennis
April 30th, 2009 2:56 amFantastic.
lorraine_p
April 30th, 2009 3:00 amSo many lovely images to choose from!! Plumpted for ‘Today isn’t just another yesterday’
Thanks SM
Ciesiel
April 30th, 2009 3:22 amI would remove half of them and leave just the decent ones. But as always, found one or two for myself – cheers!
Rilla
April 30th, 2009 3:23 amFavourites are Melancholy and Mailbox! But some icons overlap with the calendar of Mailbox on my desktop so I’m using Melancholy. :D Awesome selection again!
katia
April 30th, 2009 3:25 amNot even one wallpaper with a political theme about 1st of May? It is embarrassed forgeting that workers all around the world sacrificed their lifes for us… Shame, especially nowadays…
ivan
April 30th, 2009 3:25 amI like cute evilness – BTW, I think the author is Colombian (from south America) not Columbia / USA – so ‘/ USA’ shouldn’t be there…
Monster at the park is also cool…
Pol
April 30th, 2009 3:27 amNice, always looking forward to the next month.
But now it’s the first time i don’t really find one i want to use :)
Patrice Poliquin
April 30th, 2009 3:28 amNice collection but I can’t use some that I liked because the calendar is on top right or right side only and with vista it goes bad… The little applications at the right just hide it.
Gilbert
April 30th, 2009 3:34 amAstronaut is my favorite… Well done!
tata
April 30th, 2009 3:35 amMay collection is the best!
wyc
April 30th, 2009 3:40 am3q
seazon
April 30th, 2009 3:58 amYey ! I got featured, I am happy :)
Edward Calugtong
April 30th, 2009 4:06 amWee! I got featured!
Thanks SM! Glad to be featured. :)
- Edward
Anca Varsandan
April 30th, 2009 4:07 amThanks Smashing for the 3rd feature in a row :D
I LOVE monster at the park
cuuute
Melvin Neo
April 30th, 2009 4:10 amSimply beautiful! Can I use them for my Twitter background?
Tom Bradshaw
April 30th, 2009 4:12 amGreat selection, Monster at the Park is my favourite!
Daisy Morgan
April 30th, 2009 4:19 amAnother brilliant collection, couldn’t possibly pick a favourite – thanks guys!
Edward Calugtong
April 30th, 2009 4:20 amSorry for the link. ^_^
Really overwhelmed with these feature. Wee!
Mike
April 30th, 2009 4:21 amThese are great wallpapers, except one thing. Links and logos like “Smashing Magazine” on them. These do spoil the overall image. Anyway, what’s the purpose? To make a user remember where did he get this stuff? Personally, I don’t understand why a user needs some advertisement on his desktop.
P.S. I’d choose fresh cloud.
Chris Alexander
April 30th, 2009 4:28 amThanks for listing mine (the Bounce one). Great work everyone!
william
April 30th, 2009 4:35 ami took look forward to them every month. i think this is the first time i couldn’t find one i wanted to use.
but keep posted the calendars!!
Lara
April 30th, 2009 4:38 amThey are all great, but I have to go with astronaut.
Olivier FAURAX
April 30th, 2009 4:40 amPink flower, Spring, May dreams
Thanks everyone for the work.
Philippe C
April 30th, 2009 4:47 amawesome as always =)
Markus Koljonen
April 30th, 2009 4:47 amDreams & Aspirations is my fave of these.
Jesse
April 30th, 2009 4:48 amLove the golf one! Green! Thanks as always Smashing.
Eliezer
April 30th, 2009 4:49 am¡Gracias! visualmente deliciosos…
Thanks! visually delicious
galeazzo
April 30th, 2009 4:53 amWoody ! Is my favorite
backseatsurfer
April 30th, 2009 5:00 amI liked a lot of the wallpapers. Actually it was really hard this month to decide. After all I choosed “Melancholy”.
germaine
April 30th, 2009 5:05 amLike some others have said, i’m surprised too by some wallpapers here: iI’d say the quality of half of them is very… let’s say amateur to be nice :)
I hope next month’s selection will be as the previous ones, maybe less images, but more quality !
Darwin Santos
April 30th, 2009 5:10 amAwesome collection. how can I submit a calendar design?
Adam
April 30th, 2009 5:14 amSome incredible wallpapers there, and yes I agree that the logo sometimes destroys the effect. I do wish there was at least one dual-monitor wallpaper in there though.
Abby
April 30th, 2009 5:16 amListen to Groovy May is great and I just love how they did the numbers on the Hotdog one, nice!!!
Alt Design
April 30th, 2009 5:30 amThanks SM! Glad to be featured. Keep Going!
Jan
April 30th, 2009 5:32 amnice Wallpaper, lovem them
Roger D.
April 30th, 2009 5:44 amLots of great ones here, thank you very much for keeping this going. For me, I like to have something that shows a calendar large enough to see from a few feet away…. and for easy recognition of what day’s what, having them laid out in 7-day rows is preferred. Also, I’ve learned that I’m used to seeing weeks begin on Sundays. Once I find something that meets this, I pick a design. For this month, my choice is Stamp Collection, but I also like A Precious Notion, Cityimage, Woody Allen and Showers Bring Flowers….
Massimo Bastianon
April 30th, 2009 5:47 amalways the best!
Rochelle
April 30th, 2009 5:53 amMelancholy, Mailbox and Monster in the Park were good. Nothing else spoke to me.
heather van de mark
April 30th, 2009 5:56 amthe hot dog i set as my wall paper instantly. it is just too hilarious.
the calendar with a pink background and may headphones stands out.
And the cast a clout, is great in it’s understated ness.
eriwyn
April 30th, 2009 6:09 amSo many wonderful designs to choose from!!!! Thought “Cute Evilness” was awesome — with actual usable space for my cluttered desktop. Kudos to all designers!!! Thanks!!
Vinod Batus
April 30th, 2009 6:13 amThanks SM. Glad to be featured :)
Phoenixheart
April 30th, 2009 6:46 amFantastic collection, though I can’t say I like all of these.
Novel
April 30th, 2009 6:52 amThank you for accepting mine last month and this, especially as I am an “amateur” whose ideas often outpace her skills.
I like that there is always a wide variety of styles. I, for instance, am not interested in the phogographically based ones, but I respect the skill that goes into them. I think the nay sayers on here should remember this is a free contest with no prize except publication–open to anyone, and not based on technical virtuosity alone.
As to picking one–why? I change mine every week of the month, and use them as my screensaver in a slide show. I keep previous months without calendar in the queue.
Thank you again, (and to the person who liked mine last month in the comments!).
Novel
April 30th, 2009 6:53 amAnd thank you to all the designers for sharing their work. I loved this month’s selections and downloaded more than I ever have before.
smear
April 30th, 2009 6:59 amwhat’s up with the wild swings in quality? is there a review process that these go through? some are absolutely phenomenal and others look like they were done in 15 minutes by people who have never used photoshop before. no offense, i guess i’ve just come to expect a certain level of quality.
bs.kishore
April 30th, 2009 7:11 amA superb collection.
snnaqvi
April 30th, 2009 7:25 amWow ! I got featured!
Rob
April 30th, 2009 7:36 amI think this is my favourite collection so far! Great job putting it together, and fantastic work from all the designers – thanks a lot!
Jorge Linares
April 30th, 2009 7:37 amBest collection set I’ve ever seen, so many unique and amazing calendars that made me download at least 8 of these when I actually the most I’ve downloaded before was 1.
My 2 fav are “No Limits” and “Monster at the park”
sama
April 30th, 2009 7:48 amGreat selection, thanks
Wings
April 30th, 2009 8:00 amFishy …fishy ….fishy^^
Evan
April 30th, 2009 8:34 amDon’t forget May 12th 2008. Thanks, Smashing Magazine.
Char-Lou Benedict
April 30th, 2009 8:36 amThese are all great – and each month they get better. You need to develop a wallpaper rotator so that a different one can come up each time I log on.
Thanks for all the inspiration!
Ayhan Kamil
April 30th, 2009 8:41 amMy 2nd feature… next stop June ;)
Andrea
April 30th, 2009 9:07 amIt’s almost silly how much I look forward to these every month
emoracket
April 30th, 2009 9:11 amyes…….so cool wallpapers for 2009 may
jkerfeld
April 30th, 2009 9:50 amWoody made it! Niice. Some really great work here; inspired as usual
http://ya.ru
April 30th, 2009 10:21 amYes
Jhani
April 30th, 2009 10:23 amthey are Great!!!! Congratuations…
Pliers
April 30th, 2009 10:34 amI’m gonna go ahead and admit that none of these are very impressive. There are maybe 2 or 3 good designs. This is the worst backgroundup that Smashing’s posted in a while.
tweed
April 30th, 2009 10:40 amdesktopography.com + rainlendar > all
dsignlayd
April 30th, 2009 11:01 ami LOVE the hot dog :D that’s the best thing about this time of year—a grilled hot dog!
Aldis
April 30th, 2009 11:32 amAs always – Amazing! I think I will take one.
Micael
April 30th, 2009 11:53 amThanks! I love this wallpapers.
Christine
April 30th, 2009 12:22 pmNice Wallpapers. Great job everyone!
Those are the best ones:
Mother’s Day — Armchair — Cherry Blossoms — Spring — Fishy — Bounce — Dandelion
Gustavs
April 30th, 2009 1:14 pmNasing spešal.
KS
April 30th, 2009 1:27 pmThe Luchador is the best!
fat heads
April 30th, 2009 2:00 pmgreat list, especially loving the monster at the park!!
Renzo
April 30th, 2009 2:01 pmI like very much “Astronaut” Theme
dina
April 30th, 2009 2:15 pmMay collection is very nice.
My favorite is “fresh cloud”.
Thanks.
CJ
April 30th, 2009 3:28 pmAmazing collection once again. They just seem to get better and better. I’m spoilt for choice this month, maybe the Spring, Spring, Cityimage, Polzbeath or San Fran.
P
April 30th, 2009 4:00 pmI love these calendars, thanks for sharing your creativity freely.
Can I make one suggestion? Im in OZ and we are heading into Autumn perhaps think of some Autumnal themes for us down under :)
Gregory
April 30th, 2009 5:01 pmwho has time to look at wallpaper? my desktop is always full.
John Morris Photography
April 30th, 2009 6:09 pmAh, creativity is refreshing. Glad to see ours made it. Lots of great work here.
Nik G
April 30th, 2009 6:53 pmSome of these are fantastic! You guys really should use a spellchecker for some of the blurbs about the wallpapers, even if it’s fixing their authors’(Wallpaper creators) mistakes, not yours. The spelling in some of these hurts my head.
Jagat
April 30th, 2009 7:00 pmGreat Collection. Thanks For Sharing.
Marcel
April 30th, 2009 7:16 pmAwesome, absolutely Awesome, can’t thank you all enough!
This post always makes my day for the month and always me to have something fresh and pleasant to look at each month. Can’t thank you all enough! Cheers!
Toby
April 30th, 2009 7:37 pmI love this collection so much. Thank’s a lot!!
Connie
April 30th, 2009 7:43 pmVery diverse selection, love the May Dreams one! What I want to know is why people feel the need to put down other people’s hard work? Why discourage all these artists by insulting their efforts?
Mia
April 30th, 2009 8:16 pmHey Smashing,
Thanks again so much for keeping this up! I really look forward to it every month, and I tell everyone about your site and they use the wallpapers too now. I’m using Moonaway, it was a tough choice with so many nice ones to choose from! Thanks again, and please don’t stop posting these!!
Shashank
April 30th, 2009 8:51 pmAgain – A great effort by the designers.. and a Lovely collection.
But am not able to participate this time :(
No worries..I like most of them and these are my favorites – Hot Dog – Astronaut – No Limits – Creative Spark – Fresh Cloud – Fishy – Mothers Day(by Abhishek Ravindran).
Great work guys and Keep it up.!
Cheerrssss.
shahin
April 30th, 2009 9:44 pmGreat Collection. Very nice!!!! Thanks For Sharing.
Gravity Station
April 30th, 2009 9:46 pmNO LIMITS! *my fave!
Vikas
April 30th, 2009 10:16 pmHi good collection
Thanks
Vikas
Dorte
April 30th, 2009 11:43 pmGreat collection – Cute Evilness is my favorite this time :-)
Zoran
May 1st, 2009 12:09 amGreat designs by Maya from Sri Lanka and Anca from Romania!
Zoeve
May 1st, 2009 12:11 amThanks SM for featured my design esp for a beginner like me ^^, i’m very pleased. That was my very first wallpaper. I’m so happy. Hope i can join next time and hope can improve in my wallpaper design.
Emina
May 1st, 2009 1:31 amWHOOOOOO! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, for featuring my design…
Danny fro India
May 1st, 2009 1:36 amNO L=I=M=I=T=S RoKzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ
dmk
May 1st, 2009 2:00 ammailbox is for me. yes it is. thanks.
Zuza
May 1st, 2009 2:16 amFor me: the best collection in this year :) Next month, the same problem: what to choose :D Thanx
Moric
May 1st, 2009 3:34 amexcellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
abc
May 1st, 2009 3:46 amMonster @ the park wallpaper without calendar in the size 1920×1200 is not availible!!!!
please load it up // its so great!!!