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!





































































Paul
May 1st, 2009 4:19 amoh man these just keep getting better and better.
Ronald Zwart
May 1st, 2009 4:48 amNice ones this month.
I like Fete Muguet and Cityimage a lot.
Esch
May 1st, 2009 4:54 amGreat works! And thank you :)
keeley
May 1st, 2009 5:16 amlove
We Fight Our Skate Spots!
and also May Dreams.
they just keep getting
better and better.
so heads up to you there;)
Scotty B
May 1st, 2009 5:27 amAt work, I have my screen tilted vertically for greater ease when reading documents. I would love to see some desktop/wallpaper/calendars in this format! (960×1280)
Scott
May 1st, 2009 5:48 amI’m sorry but the smashing magazine logo just ruins these. Please use a transparent logo next time or better yet, don’t use one at all.
Thank god most of us know how to use Photoshop at least enough to remove a logo :/
Jessica Kennedy
May 1st, 2009 6:11 amI’m using Cute Evilness! Too cute! Wish it had more color but it’s my fav!
JWaldron
May 1st, 2009 7:06 amFavorites:
1. No Limits
2. Creative Spark
3. Orchids
Toni
May 1st, 2009 7:13 amOMG!! my teacher totally made a cool calendar posting!! The Mother’s Day calendar with the breathtaking Red flower! She is gonna totally have to teach me some more photoshop skills! lol
avanak
May 1st, 2009 7:14 am“Monster at the Park” – “without calendar” – “1920×1200″ is not available!
it gives 404 – Not Found error !!
Chris
May 1st, 2009 8:19 ammelancholy
poyo
May 1st, 2009 8:53 amthanx smashing for the cool wallpapers. I like the 3rd Spring by Mona! ;)
todd
May 1st, 2009 9:55 amTotally Spring by Mona Parvin. Just look at the Illustration of the grass, it looks so real! I am totally diggin’ this one. Great Job!
… I guess it’s named Spring 2 cause there’s so many ones named Spring … lol
Awesome Job Everyone!!!
valley
May 1st, 2009 10:46 amMelancholy is my favourite!
eddiev
May 1st, 2009 11:22 amvery awesome collection. please keep up the good work.
Robert
May 1st, 2009 11:32 amMight I entreat more designers to include a 1280 x 1024 version of their design?
I love these desktops. Thanks, all!
Roman
May 1st, 2009 1:13 pmAll wallpapers ar awesome, but I like Melancholy, No limits, Spring and mailbox.
Thanks all
acidcloud
May 1st, 2009 1:30 pmI liked these a lot better than last month, but in reality, I’m only going to download about 3 of them.
Thanks though.
Claudio Vera
May 1st, 2009 1:43 pmExcellnte web page with the most interesting and beautiful images i can use to decorate my desktop. Thanks for sharing your ideas here and make us happy with the illustrations.
Christine
May 1st, 2009 4:17 pmOh thank you, especially for May-Yay! Every time I sit at my computer the first thing I’ll see is a positive message. Fantastic!
JP Fuam
May 1st, 2009 6:18 pmYey, I get published on May ; Listen to the Groovy May :) Thank you. SmashingMagazine. Hope to submit more in near future.
Most of them are fantastic, Different people comes different creative
Maya
May 1st, 2009 7:22 pmThanks for SM . . . I got Publish this month also . . . end of every month im tempt to see the collection . . . Thanks again to SM and to all
Riquard
May 1st, 2009 11:57 pmThanks, I’m using the one called spring
Roelvano
May 2nd, 2009 1:17 amF*ck, they are so awesome, and i can’t choose!!
Love them. I’m already looking forward to 31th May, for next month wallpapers, hehe!
Rodrigo
May 2nd, 2009 1:50 amFavourite brighter: ‘Create your own god’
Favourite darker: ‘No limits’
Jason
May 2nd, 2009 4:11 amGreat stuff as usual.
One question though: Why do the wallpaper posts not appear in the RSS Feed?
Tra_Lala
May 2nd, 2009 5:40 amThanks from Russia !!! .. :)
sulfiani
May 2nd, 2009 6:04 amis beatifull wallpaper,thanks
Robert (InToGraphics at the forum)
May 2nd, 2009 12:13 pmAstronaut is my favourite.
Just like me when I was at that age. I could still become anything I wanted.
Better still, I would go anywhere my mind could think of.
BTW, Ana Fernandes played tricks with my mind for a second with “The Workday”.
Robert
dorfwise
May 2nd, 2009 12:30 pmevery month i am waiting for updating my desktop. and every month you show much better designs. thanks to all the submitters!!! really great!
michiel
May 2nd, 2009 12:53 pmze blijven eig wel zotsjiek
Chris Rowley
May 2nd, 2009 1:56 pmThanks for a few 2560×1600, hopefully more of the designers will offer this resolution in the future. I have two computers at 2560×1600 and one at 1920×1080 so nowadays fewer of these excellent designs can be used on my primary systems!
Palmer
May 2nd, 2009 4:28 pmFaves: “Listen to Groovy May,” “Moonaway” and “Create Your Own God.” Plus two or three close seconds. Great batch, thanks guys! My computer smiles.
Lisbeth
May 2nd, 2009 5:07 pmThese are awesome thanks!
Jon
May 2nd, 2009 7:03 pmEvery month is better and better. Once again I am blown away.
Alleyne
May 2nd, 2009 9:59 pmHehe! I love that you guys included the Naruto one ;)
adis
May 3rd, 2009 2:43 amStunning wallpaper
Laura
May 3rd, 2009 5:04 amMother’s Day, Moonaway, and Cherry Blossoms were my favorite’s this month. I love all the great choices each month!
GIlmara Elisa
May 3rd, 2009 5:33 amI love all of them!
My favorites are Melancholy and May Dreams.
Thanks!
Rolf
May 3rd, 2009 6:13 amNice wallpapers! I love most of them!
I was going to submit one but I forgot to send my wallpapers.
Nature Photos
Tobi
May 3rd, 2009 10:21 amOnce again a nice gallery.
Looking forward to it every month!
Thanks a lot SM!
DamDam11
May 3rd, 2009 1:57 pmAmazing stuff!
Praveen Nair
May 3rd, 2009 7:19 pmExcellent stuff… thanks for sharing…
Asif
May 3rd, 2009 9:06 pmawesome collection, Bravo
rao
May 3rd, 2009 9:29 pmMonster at the Park
Priya
May 3rd, 2009 9:53 pmGreat collection….!!! Loved it!
charvi
May 3rd, 2009 10:18 pmyo! thanks :)
XY
May 3rd, 2009 11:14 pmI like it ….
ThemeLib.com
May 4th, 2009 12:50 amCool
louna
May 4th, 2009 2:28 amGreat great great wallpapers
Tutsii
May 4th, 2009 3:12 amI love ‘No Limits’, but it have mistake. It don’t have 24 of May… I don’t know if it is purposeful action.
masaaa
May 4th, 2009 3:44 am“Pink Flower” (without calendar)
Manko10
May 4th, 2009 4:06 amHmm…
I like some more, some less. You already had published better wallpapers. I’d like to see more amazing nature wallpapers.
Matthew Gonzalez
May 4th, 2009 5:29 amCinco de Mayo and May Dreams and Aspirations for me
7A
May 4th, 2009 7:25 amThanks SM! Very nice wallpapers!!!
joe
May 4th, 2009 10:17 amNo great ones this time, except the underground pic. Maybe a little more creativity?
joe
May 4th, 2009 10:19 amOn second thoughts, there are indeed some nice ones! Thanks
Bilsko
May 4th, 2009 2:25 pmNot as impressed with the selection this month as I have been in the past. There are a few solid pieces of work, but not as many standouts as in previous months.
The Mother’s Day (the red lillies by Millicent B.) is a striking and beautiful image, but I’m actually surprised that you put something so polemic on this site as the whole right-to-choice vs. right-to-life argument. “Mothers choose life” is a tautology, but I don’t think that its too hard to see where the author’s loyalties lie…perhaps Smashing doesn’t want to get into that whole debate.
siberian girl
May 4th, 2009 2:31 pmcute evilness. great idea with the boxes!
Mag
May 4th, 2009 2:56 pmThe “Don’t Forget” one has a very prominent error that I caught from the thumbnail. Says “Don’t Forgot”. :(
Poojari
May 4th, 2009 5:43 pmBrilliant piece of work.
Abhishek keep up the good work …Good luck
Gill
May 4th, 2009 7:02 pmMoonaway is so great!!
Hemanth Raj
May 5th, 2009 12:24 amGr8 work Abhishek…. :) Keep Rocking!!!
rss_ems
May 5th, 2009 2:40 amwooow! :)
BenVenidos
May 5th, 2009 5:49 amCute Evilness is the best by far, but everyone has shown extraordinary talent.
vasja
May 5th, 2009 7:02 amI can’t belive, I share the town with this girl :-)
Cityimage
great Ana F.
charly11
May 5th, 2009 9:33 amThank you. Nice walls
Anna
May 5th, 2009 11:12 am«No great ones this time… Maybe a little more creativity?»
OK! I’m eager to see what, those who criticized this month, will send oh-so great next month!…
nightS
May 5th, 2009 1:38 pmNice Collection!
Thanks :)
Mike H
May 5th, 2009 5:52 pmMailbox by Cafundó is certainly my favourite.
Vish
May 5th, 2009 8:27 pmAbsolutely BRILLIANT!!
Thank you!!
vishal
May 5th, 2009 11:21 pmAwesome wallpapers.
Keep it on.
god bless u……..:-)
Janckos
May 6th, 2009 4:39 amExcelentes calendarios! muchas gracias.
Skullby
May 6th, 2009 4:51 amJust fell on your website…Its the website of my dreams. I Love your calendars!!! Keep up the great work! There are so amazing! Absolutely BRILLIANT!! Thank-you!!!
Kinya
May 6th, 2009 8:08 amBeautiful work…thank you again!
Julie
May 6th, 2009 10:46 amJust a suggestion- maybe someone should proof read these before they are put on your site. It’s a reflection on you- I see some spelling mistakes and the No lImits one has May 24 missing. I do like this site a lot though- so many to pick from and I love the calendars!! Thank you!!
Neto.!
May 6th, 2009 4:38 pmParabéns..!!!
Mês de maio está demais..! Muito bom.!
Anna
May 6th, 2009 9:21 pmI adore having a new desktop every month, thank you!!
Monster in the Park is definately my fave – http://media2.smashingmagazine.com/wallpapers/may09/may-09-monster_at_the_park-calendar-1680×1050.jpg
TomTom
May 7th, 2009 5:53 amOnce again, much excellence here. One full week into May, I’m finding that Cityimage is my favorite. Thanks Ana!
Belinda Lirach Vega
May 7th, 2009 6:52 amGreat! I love this page, thank you designers for bringing this cool wallpapers, see you next month!
April
May 7th, 2009 7:20 ami love this web site, i love the months to change to see what’s coming out next. NICE WORK!
Shruti
May 7th, 2009 12:30 pmFavorite = Orchids
mathan
May 7th, 2009 11:44 pmbrilliant collection folks!!!
rc
May 8th, 2009 6:29 amGreat series. I am now hooked on these. Keep the awsome walls flowing!
Cindy
May 8th, 2009 10:24 pmi like “Cityimage”,thanks~
白明然
May 9th, 2009 11:42 pmよし~
白明然
May 9th, 2009 11:44 pm李さん、あいしてる
Ben
May 10th, 2009 8:43 amNo limit doesnt have a 24th???
cln.lgr
May 11th, 2009 3:44 am>~Adam I agree,
Should have at leaste ONE Dual Monitor. SmashingMagazine doesn’t mention these sizes in their ‘rules’.
Crystal lee
May 11th, 2009 9:41 amGreat collection, I agree that a few of them should be left out. Quality over quantity!
Sudhakar
May 14th, 2009 12:48 amReally Awesome…
Loves much to surf this site….
Joyce B
May 15th, 2009 8:54 amI absolutely love, love this site. Every month I am on it to see the new calendar wallpapers. Such talent! Thank you for sharing.
dion
May 15th, 2009 11:29 amMy favorites this month:
- Melancholy – nice author’s site too, btw ;)
- Astronaut – toujours Vlad Gerasimov!
- Fishy – pretty good! + another Vlad :) Tamas this time
Msc
May 16th, 2009 10:51 ammoonaway!!! good
Shea
May 19th, 2009 10:45 am‘Spring’ is my favorite. I love all the black with May spotlighted.
I am so glad I found this site, I love all the choices and beautiful designs. I normally change it out each week so that I can sample the different designs, but this month I’ve kept ‘Spring’ up until today. I just changed it to ‘Creative Spark’.
Thanks to all the designers who contribute for making my desktop lovely!!!
Gisir
May 22nd, 2009 11:23 pmI love the picture of Dandelion.
It’s so beautiful. Cool
pranab
May 23rd, 2009 1:23 pmimpressive photos………..
N
June 9th, 2009 1:28 pmmay all your dreams come true!..
Silly
August 13th, 2009 1:48 pmMy favorite was the cherry blossom one. beautiful!
Narima
April 12th, 2010 10:39 pmThe wallpapers are very beautiful. It has inspired me to create one.