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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 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 50 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 August 2009?

Belka and Strelka

"Belka and Strelka spent a day in space on August 19, 1960 before safely returning to Earth. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive. Strelka went on to have six puppies. One of the pups was presented to President John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961." Designed by Rumake Web Agency from Russia.

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Memories

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A lazy August afternoon

"August is the time for relaxation." Designed by Monica Corduneanu from Romania.

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Horse Rider

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Do The Dance

"Just a tiny monster dance party!" Designed by Guilherme Simoes from Brazil.

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B-side

"Because the back side can be beautiful as well and because there is always more than one point of view. Enjoy!" Designed by Federica Sibella from Italy.

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Happy Friendship Month

"As we step into another new month, I realize that this one is of those special month. Life without friends is akin to boat without a sail in the middle of sea. This wallpaper is a dedication to all my friends who have given meaning to my life. Speaking about the wallpaper, it is rainy season in India and you could see fresh greenery all around. The presence of your friends along with so much of beauty of nature is always so much to enjoy. Those two kids have just started this life long journey called friendship.All hail Friends!" Designed by Puneeta Prakash from India.

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iLogiCow – absolute social

"The very first debut of a “new something” called iLogiCow. Some say it’s unbelievably creative persona. Some say it’s fresh looking symbol of trendy design ideas. Stay tuned folks." Designed by iLogiCow from Europe.

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Big Catch

"My “Big Catch” Wallpaper Illustration was inspired by a drawing I made alittle while ago during an amazing day at the beach.Too bad I did’t see the big catch coming ;-)" Designed by Manuel Esposito from Germany.

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Gezellig

"Gezellig – is a term that is said to encompass the heart of Dutch culture. One says it is untranslatable. Enjoy my attempt to translate ‘gezellig’…" Designed by PeHaa from Poland.

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Colombian Orchid

"The orchid is the colombian national flower. This photo was taken inside of “José Celestino Mútis” Botanical Garden in Bogotá." Designed by Carolina Obando (photographer) from Colombia.

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Rock the Web

"Just wanted to make something interesting and express my gratitude to my favorite site. I love you!" Designed by Alexey Chernishov from Ukraine.

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Summer Colours

"This is my first attempt at a calendar. The design of the fish was inspired by the Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. I wanted to convey the feel of the month of August through colours. Enjoy!" Designed by Valerie Kozina from Canada.

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Wii Fit Girl

"Wallpaper featuring the original and lovely Wii Fit Girl, Lauren Bernat" Designed by Giovanny Gutierrez from US.

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Hadedah Ibis

"Hadedah Ibis are imbued with a sense of legend and history, in this wallpaper the history of flight, sound, art, murky legends and nostalgia are combined to create a moody, soulful wallpaper that will inspire and delight." Designed by Tamsyn Lancaster from South Africa.

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It is Better to Create

"This months wallpaper is based around a Julius Caesar quote.It has been designed with a blue colour pallette and orange accent colours.There is also a subtle grunge effect to give the wallpaper some texture." Designed by Paul Randall from England.

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Hamster

"Happy Hamster in Harvest time." Designed by Inna Dekhtiar from Ukraine.

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Sleeping Moon, Busy Planet

"The planets stay busy making jam, while the moon sleeps" Designed by Chris Alexander (Yipori) from England.

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Gladiolus Explosion (August Flower)

"Inspired from the August flower ‘Gladiolus’ the design explores the form of the flower, textures and typography, making the wallpaper a striking and elegant design." Designed by Kate Jones from UK, Brighton.

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Ride on the Green wave

"Going green has no seasons. It is an all-year commitment. While out enjoying the sun in the summer for the Northern Hemisphere, ride on the green wave and minimise our carbon footprints." Designed by Wong Kuo Tsung Jordan from Singapore.

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August Sentense

"Just motivating sentence for August :)" Designed by Temeshi from Poland.

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Lion Storm

"A shining lion with a grunge background." Designed by Booloo from France.

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I’m a Frog, you’re a Frog, Kiss Me!

"Made in Québec!" Designed by Mélanie Denis from Québec, Canada.

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Drawing Innocence

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Humans

"This summer I’ve spent 2 awesome weeks in Barcelona. This picture was taken on the rooftop of Gaudi’s “La Pedrera”." Designed by Anca Varsandan from Romania.

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You’ve Got August

"I have been a follower of Smashing Magazine for a while but I have never contributed, so this is my first shot. I am an illustrator by heart and this idea came from my notebook full of doodles. I hope you enjoy!" Designed by Luke Eaton with Blue Arrow Design Group from USA.

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Wildlife

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Dream Car Love

"Guys usually like to pin up girly posters or calendars. This is a parody on this with a car hanging up a picture or calendar of it’s dream girl (car). For those car fanatics or people who just like a classy desktop." Designed by SKO from USA.

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Bored?

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Butterfly Effect

"I read about the butterfly effect . . .the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet .its very amazing . so I thought to do some design use butterfly, and I used Paul Erlich quotes in this design" Designed by Maya.Sivalingam from Sri Lanka.

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All she wants to do is dance.

"Tina just got her new dancing robot, but she’s not allowed to play with it at home.So she sneaks off to another planet to dance, but they’re afraid of her, so they try tohurt her. Too bad their weapons are useless against robots." Designed by Kristen M. Leonard from USA.

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Freedom

"Freedom15 August being the independence day of India. I have used the colours in indian flag and children enjoying there freedom." Designed by Supriya Dcunha from India.

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Quiet Blue

"Bubbles filled with embryonic geckos floating in a sea of blue, with dark anonymous sharks circling nearby." Designed by Di Harrison from Australia.

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Unleashing Happiness

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Charles Darwin Anniversary

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MotoGP Champ

"This calendar was created for the motorcycle enthusiasts who visit www.allaboutbikes.com.The photo depicts Dani Pedrosa on his Repsol Honda before going on to win Round 8 at Laguna Seca in July 2009." Designed by Erica Volkman from USA.

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Bright Summers Eve

"Beams of sun play across the sky, as a tree sits patient on the ground. A summery illustration based on August." Designed by Hennell from UK.

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Eight8

"I am a freelance graphic designer from India, currently involved inbranding, banner and brochre design. I love typograhy and I findminimalism to be more amusing than others. My love for minimalism inspired me to do this piece. " Designed by Venkat Sharma AG from India.

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August Shine

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Fireworks Flower

"This plant was just too interesting to overlook. It reminded me a lot of the fireworks that had been going off the past few weeks. I felt like it was a good transition into the end of summer." Designed by A. Monday from USA.

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Life or Death

"The idea behind this is to portray the choice that people often have to make about living life. Should you take a risk or take all the necessary precautions to stay safe which may do more damage in the end?" Designed by Kristen Brewer from USA.

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Still Flying

"A Firefly tribute." Designed by Chelsea Otakan from USA.

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Deep Green

"This is a photo taken, some July’s day in beautiful a nature reserve “Ku?nik”near to city Pi?a in Poland, this a really amazing place." Designed by Mateusz Mackowiak from Poland.

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Hummm

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Peony Pink

"A little bit of pink…" Designed by Marlaine Weber from Canada.

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Sunflower Eclipse

"Maybe it’s a little too late for the total eclipse…" Designed by Mac Funamizu from Japan.

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Urbanshamanism

"You may think that magick doesn’t exist; that if it ever did, it abandoned us when we became an industrialized society. But I think that’s wrong. Magick is still here – it’s switched from analog to digital, it’s embedded in hypertext and video compression algorithms. It’s transferred into our homes along copper and fiber-optic ley lines. Urban sprawls and social networking sites become massive nodes that contain the dreams and reflections of thousands of souls. Finding the layer of magick under the surface of things is the inspiration for this month’s wallpaper. I chose warm colors to represent the end of the summer and a time when our lives were defined by the changing of the seasons and the cycles of the sun and the moon." Designed by Arcane Palette Creative Design from USA.

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Freedom 15

"Celebrating Independence!" Designed by Viswanath J from India.

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I found something

"This character found something new in his life, it’s reflection of my life. Sometimes he found a good things, but next day he found a bad one." Designed by Indrajid from Indonesia.

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Night at Wuxi

"Quick play with the photo I took in WuXi, adding some pattern to bring the colors to your desktop." Designed by JJ.Ying from China.

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Giving up The Demons

"Dedicated to all the innocent lives fade out in wars. May God bless the thousands others who have been abandoned alone by the devils in a tragic end of valuable human life." Designed by Marek Okon from Poland; adapted by Sagar from Bangladesh.

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How can we improve the SM Calendar Series?

What can be done to improve the desktop wallpaper calendar series? What should be changed? What do you miss? Let us know in the poll and in the comments to this post!

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 this month? Please let us know in the comments! And have a smashing August, folks!

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204 Comments

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DKumar M.
July 31st, 2009 12:58 am
Nice Collection.. Of Course far better then the July one. Some of them are very creative.
DKumar M.
@instantShift
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Art
July 31st, 2009 12:59 am
Great! Like Memories.
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lime
July 31st, 2009 1:02 am
beautiful as always,
I think ‘humm’ would stand great on a pillow or apron, like thosen on Envelop Envelop
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birdy
July 31st, 2009 1:02 am
Gezellig & Rock the Web are my favourites
well done guys ;)
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Enoo
July 31st, 2009 1:10 am
The last one, that is said to be “Designed by Sagar from Bangladesh” is based on an image created by Marek Okon, from Poland.
IMO, adding a calendar and a logo to a painting that is not yours (without changing it otherwise and without giving credit to the author) doesn’t count as “design” :/
(SM) You are absolutely right! The article was updated.
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Mrt
July 31st, 2009 1:16 am
Great stuff! Thanks
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annieo
July 31st, 2009 1:21 am
Outstanding month! So many good ones I’m setting a bunch to rotate!
I’m curious about whether the wordy ones are popular, as I never like them. Perhaps I’m more particular about my words than my images, or perhaps they just aren’t great words.
Also, as a Southern Hemispherian, those that relate to the season are never appropriate, but I don’t complain! Smashing job!
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Praba
July 31st, 2009 1:42 am
gr8 collection, Thanks for all the hardwork by everyone.
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jennifer
July 31st, 2009 1:49 am
Hi,
I am regular visitor of your site. My desktop is set up every month with your amazing and innovative calender wallpapers.
Thanks to people who create the design and thanks to your website as well.
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CamelGraph
July 31st, 2009 2:20 am
In those two created by Anil Omanwar, the image effect somehow similiar to photofunia.com generated effect
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Marty
July 31st, 2009 2:42 am
Much better than last month! Thanks a bunch!
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moric
July 31st, 2009 2:53 am
this month you did an excellent job!!1
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WTF?
July 31st, 2009 2:55 am
Giving up The Demons – plagiarism of Marek Okoń artwork:
Rain on deviantArt.
This artwork is copyrighted. Can’t be modified without permission!
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texcut
July 31st, 2009 2:56 am
great!
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Luis Lopez
July 31st, 2009 3:07 am
Excellent collection, these artist are really talented, I’ll prepare mine for next month.
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Robott
July 31st, 2009 3:16 am
How did the hamster wallpaper get in there? That hamster character is obviously Rhino from the Disney movie Bolt. Only the nose was changed. just FYI
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smk
July 31st, 2009 3:34 am
two things:
1st)
1280×1024 is a pretty common resolution (17″-19″ TFT) but is often missing :(
2nd)
let there be more designs around real pictures (cars, nature, …). the fraction of artificial backgrounds is too large in my eyes. think of something like “dream car love”.
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Andrew
July 31st, 2009 3:36 am
All I can say is that you better be around next year or I’ll loose track of the months : ) Thanks for the beautiful Calendars!
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helpers
July 31st, 2009 3:40 am
СПС!
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kandagatla
July 31st, 2009 3:53 am
“Puneeta Prakash” This one is nice especially.
Thanks…………………………..
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Rajesh Rajput
July 31st, 2009 3:59 am
I am using that Giving up The Demons I don’t its so awsme that sould be on the top the theme make me almost cry I had also feel the same pain love that awsme one
Great Piece of ARt thnx for posting it LOVE YOU
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Ben
July 31st, 2009 4:02 am
GREAT! BEAUTIFUL!
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Sana Khan
July 31st, 2009 4:08 am
Love the Zebra wallpaper. Great post! :)
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Mélanie Denis
July 31st, 2009 4:16 am
Thanks SmashingMag to show up my wallpaper made in Québec!
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vickyman
July 31st, 2009 4:31 am
wow!! cool stuff! teh 8 fish thing stuff looks so cool!! wonder what “nabrasya” is :) ny idea???
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Chris
July 31st, 2009 4:44 am
i think i can do “art wallpapers” by myself when I saw these above. earlier months were much, much better. Guys! Go to work, if not I will do something and I’m not a graphic designer!
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Tam
July 31st, 2009 4:46 am
Hey Smashing! Thanks so much for including my hadedah wallpaper! xt
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Dan Horn
July 31st, 2009 4:52 am
Spell correctly?
How can we imporive the SM Calendar Series?
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Elwin
July 31st, 2009 4:56 am
Ce mois-ci nos créateurs ont super bien bossé! Il va être trés difficile d’en choisir qu’un…
Merci.
_Elwin_
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Hadeel
July 31st, 2009 5:02 am
Love the Belka & Strelka as well as the Zebra wallpaper. Great work!
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Martin Bentley Krebs
July 31st, 2009 5:04 am
Okay, one design using a photo as an illustration is bad enough, but two using the same child?
This was your best?
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Eliezer
July 31st, 2009 5:06 am
Belka and Strelka! it’s beautiful… I love it!
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Tobi
July 31st, 2009 5:33 am
at Paul Randall: so you made an august version of your july wallpaper quoting _juli_us ceasar – not funny any more. Will you submit it for the rest of the year, too?
http://prandall.com/2009/06/25/july-2009-wallpaper/
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lyz
July 31st, 2009 5:34 am
même en france on aime les wallpaper de smashing …thank you
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Aleksandar
July 31st, 2009 5:41 am
Nice work everybody. Great article…
lol, designs by Anil Omanwar (Drawing innocence and Unleashing Happiness) are from photofunia.com with added calendar… It’s just enlarged, that’s why it’s poor quality in high resolutions…
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Aleksandar
July 31st, 2009 5:43 am
sorry for double post :S
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julia
July 31st, 2009 5:54 am
все такие классные, не могу выбрать!!!! о_0
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DistractedRicki
July 31st, 2009 6:01 am
I don’t like the idea of a theme for each month… I appreciate being able to choose a desktop calender to suit my own taste and mood. Voting seems like a good idea… there are quite a few sub-par designs here, IMO, and it would be great to sort them by votes.
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mistay
July 31st, 2009 6:09 am
So many great wallpapers! It`s really hard to choose one for my desktop… :)
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Shashank
July 31st, 2009 6:12 am
August Sentense – creative font.. Can you please tell what is the name?
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Gustavs
July 31st, 2009 6:13 am
Used the “Belka and Strelka” wallpaper – looks great. Thanks!
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Katia
July 31st, 2009 6:25 am
Il calendario di Puneeta Prakash its wonderful, fantastic!
Molto bello anche quello di Nikola Lazarevic.
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Laura
July 31st, 2009 6:26 am
I’m been waiting for these all week! There’s a bunch I’ll be rotating throughout the month, but my favorite is Gladiolus Explosion :D
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Tim
July 31st, 2009 6:27 am
Just because you type
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
on top of a picture doesn’t make it a calendar (eg. Paul Randal).
In fact, you have made it completely useless.
Let’s get some days of the week in there people.
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mike
July 31st, 2009 6:51 am
que onda Drawing Innocence y Unleashing Happiness, medio raro locos.
saludos a todos los modernos
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John
July 31st, 2009 7:00 am
I think that this is overall a great collection of wallpapers. Thank, Smashing Mag.
As was mentioned before, anyone can create an image like the one used in “Unleashing Happiness” by visiting photofunia.com — but it might not be esy to find the page.
The link to that image is http://photofunia.com/effects/69
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Travis
July 31st, 2009 7:07 am
I’ll love to a have a zip download option by size…even if there were just 3 like – small, meduim, large…
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CINTIA AVILA
July 31st, 2009 7:27 am
excelent…. congratulations……….¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ in my birthday this wallpapers are beautiful
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Jeanne Denison
July 31st, 2009 7:28 am
This is the best feature ever. I change my calendar many times depending on my mood. Thanks for the inspiration.
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dappy
July 31st, 2009 7:31 am
Require submissions or anything to be up to 2560 x 1600? I don’t like having a wallpaper in a box and I can rarely use any of these on the big monitor.
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Lucky 11 Studios
July 31st, 2009 7:37 am
A select few are pretty damn decent. But there are a bunch others that are a joke. Amateur design—Smashing deserves better!
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Lucky 11 Studios
July 31st, 2009 7:46 am
@ Tim : Good call. Paul Randall’s calendar is a joke. Seriously, thanks for taking the 3 minutes it took to do that one. Oh, and last time I checked quotes usually END in quote marks as well.
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John
July 31st, 2009 7:51 am
Perhaps a FEW days before the last day of the month to give us time to contemplate, judge, and decide on the following month’s submissions would make this better. (July has seemed to be a long month!)
I’d like to know more about the artists; short profile as a sidebar or below the submissions–even a link–to other work as well?
Otherwise, this is perfect! I’ve led others (particularly women, who love the flower wallpapers) to this place, and they keep asking when the next submissions appear… but you know how women never listen…. :-D
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Seriously?
July 31st, 2009 8:10 am
@ John, #50
I’m not familiar with how women never listen, I am however familiar with how guys like you are misogynist morons.
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Kara
July 31st, 2009 8:25 am
@Seriously?
Agreed!
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Sebastian
July 31st, 2009 8:26 am
^^^ Ha ha!! Awesome!
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Chelsea
July 31st, 2009 8:36 am
Thanks for featuring my Firefly wallpaper :] If anyone with an unsupported resolution would like a version, drop me an email.
That said, I think quality could be improved simply by not having as many as 50 wallpapers and being more selective. (Not that mine is cream of the crop, but there are some … less than stellar examples featured here.)
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indigo
July 31st, 2009 8:40 am
bright summers eve is my choice
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John
July 31st, 2009 9:11 am
that rock the web one, says “September 2006″ on it… kinda weird.
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hohosky
July 31st, 2009 9:25 am
Great ! Thank you !
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Christa
July 31st, 2009 9:28 am
the original Wii girl? Who cares!
Much better than last month though! Thanks!
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Simon Harlinghausen
July 31st, 2009 9:32 am
AMAzing. Fantastico. Genius. Great.
One of the best series of desktop pictures.
Stay tuned …
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Marilena
July 31st, 2009 10:48 am
August better then July, great selection, my favourite: Eight8
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Guilherme
July 31st, 2009 10:53 am
Thanks for posting my “Do The Dance” wallpaper. Hope u all like it. If anyone wants other screen sizes for that please send me an e-mail.
Thanks Smashing for featuring it at the cover!
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Angelica
July 31st, 2009 11:25 am
I think I have seen better months. I suggest you do all of the above:
- Months should have categories (retro, movies, cartoon) and we would have winners per category and the overall winner.
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Mahijeet Singh
July 31st, 2009 11:58 am
Great walls!
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Christine
July 31st, 2009 1:21 pm
Belka and Strelka!! I love it! Thank you
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Silver Bullet
July 31st, 2009 1:38 pm
Some nice stuff as usual … Can we make have a Dual/Tri Screen option next month?
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Smashing Editorial
July 31st, 2009 1:40 pm
@Silver Bullet (#68): the option is available! It’s just designers do not send wallpapers in these resolutions.
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Mikey
July 31st, 2009 3:01 pm
Poo-r
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janie
July 31st, 2009 3:27 pm
As Jennifer (#9) said, “I am regular visitor of your site.” And like Jennifer, “My desktop is set up every month with your amazing and innovative calender wallpapers.” I ALWAYS have to make myself wait, every month, for the chance to check on the newest offerings. So eager to see them =)
I think the job as it is done now is great – I appreciate the resource, and the designers’ hard work.
No changes needed, IMHO. THANKS
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Ed
July 31st, 2009 3:38 pm
i like the randomness. the only change i’d suggest is that the calendar be given more consideration. that is , most of the time, it is too far to the right, so the 3 or 4 columns of desktop clutter on my mac cover it. so perhaps require various placements of the calender, as well as the no calendar option.
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sunnykang
July 31st, 2009 3:41 pm
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood~!
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Aiki
July 31st, 2009 5:21 pm
As someone mentioned before, the two wallpapers by Anil Omanwar-Drawing Innocence is from here:http://photofunia.com/effects/portrait/ and Unleashing Happiness is from here:http://www.photofunia.com/effects/pavement_drawing/. Anyone has a photo and uploads to this site could do them.
So I think the two wallpapers aren’t designed by Omanwar.
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Alexis
July 31st, 2009 7:04 pm
I only like one of them.
And “Drawing Innocence” is messed up.
The artist is drawing a baby but the person who sits has adult legs.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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John
July 31st, 2009 8:49 pm
#53 was sarcastic, y’all. #54 and 55… apologies to you two specifically who missed it. I honestly tried a sarcasm tag that didn’t “take” there.
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CaySedai
July 31st, 2009 10:00 pm
Today my favorite is Peony Pink. But I liked enough of them to download 15. I can change my wallpaper every couple of days!
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Silvija
July 31st, 2009 11:46 pm
The calendar named “Happy Friendship Month” is wrong, the month starts with Sunday. This is the one that I like the most, unfortunately the calendar is wrong.
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Jagat
August 1st, 2009 12:33 am
Thanks A Lot For Nice Wallpaper Collection.
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snnaqvi
August 1st, 2009 12:54 am
Nice collection as always
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Sheetal Saste
August 1st, 2009 12:57 am
I think calendar with Happy “Friendship Month” is wrong with one day calculation. Rest all are amazing………… I just love it…………..
Thanks a lot for gr8 wallpapers…………
:)
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kelly
August 1st, 2009 12:57 am
DO THE DANCE is my favourite.
i think JULY is better than AUG, yet this month is also quiet good.
i prefer those pics with less color.
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Enk.
August 1st, 2009 1:01 am
A great collection.. I must say, way better than June and July. Its rocking again !
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Sheetal Saste
August 1st, 2009 1:02 am
gr8
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valley
August 1st, 2009 1:31 am
Night at Wuxi & August Shine are the best ones for me.
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maxx
August 1st, 2009 1:41 am
Nice collection … thanks!
Is it possible to label the files with the following pattern: –.jpg
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Anish
August 1st, 2009 2:07 am
In those two created by Anil Omanwar, is exactly same the image effect of photofunia.com generated effect. Those are not his original creation.
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Frank
August 1st, 2009 2:55 am
There are no words, spectacular!!!!!
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KLEURTERREUR
August 1st, 2009 3:08 am
Fun idea, but..
Very boring designs, incredible..one or two are fun, the rest are worse then stock photography.
Sucking my inspiration away.
Anyway props for this website, I still think the content is good in generall.
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Konstantin
August 1st, 2009 3:11 am
I liked the July collection more.
Last month I hated, that I just have one desktop, this month no background really stood out for me.
I’m looking forward to next month!
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Prasanna
August 1st, 2009 4:33 am
my desktop got nice background for augest 15
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Caro
August 1st, 2009 4:56 am
I love Manuel Espositos “Big Catch”, its fantastic!
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Paul Randall
August 1st, 2009 4:58 am
@Tobi yes I did. But I thought I would enter it again for SM. Thanks for featuring me this month SM!
From now on, I will be submitting all my wallpapers to SM at the same time.
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Sagar
August 1st, 2009 6:43 am
The original source of the Image of ‘Giving up the Demons’ has been lately said to be an artwork by Marek Okon, from Poland.
But I found the image at a non-English website(http://www.goodfon.ru/wallpaper/909/), deep inside the site and only with 127 downloads.
So, that was the ‘Source of Image’ on my part for that wallpaper and I gave them credit on my site.
I apologize to Marek Okoń , at the same time, strongly denying the allegation of plagiarism as I never took the image from his page.
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Pam
August 1st, 2009 7:10 am
Thank you for sharing these wonderful creations.
Each one is so exquisite.
I enjoy coming here each month and downloading,
the ones that I will use for my desktop.
Please know that your time,work,and talent are appreciated.
Thank each of the wonderful creator’s.
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Ann
August 1st, 2009 7:14 am
I tend to prefer the designs with darker backgrounds.
I also never select a calendar with the dates aligned in a linear fashion. I need to be able to glance at the screen to see the dates.
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marlaine
August 1st, 2009 10:23 am
thank you for letting me play, sm :)
i enjoy looking at all the different designs!
ps
… how do i get a little avatar over there? >>>
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Cosmi
August 1st, 2009 11:07 am
“Humans” designed by Anca Varsandan is my favorite.
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hjdesign
August 1st, 2009 11:37 am
Cool!
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Janckos
August 1st, 2009 12:42 pm
gracias.
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Lisa PT
August 1st, 2009 2:08 pm
Please don’t make everyone follow a specific style or theme. I have multiple backgrounds each month and like a variety. These backgrounds are so great each month, I really don’t know how you could improve them, but giving a award to the artists might encourage them.
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Ae
August 1st, 2009 2:13 pm
Great collection !! like it lots..:)
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Anthony
August 1st, 2009 2:35 pm
There should be an option to download all of the wallpapers in a zip file or such. On my Mac I would like to set them to cycle every hour or so.
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Monet
August 1st, 2009 3:27 pm
Excellent!!
So much better than last month. This time, i´m gonna have one for each week!!
Great job. Congratulations to all the designers.
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Monet
August 1st, 2009 3:34 pm
So much better than last month. This time i’m gonna have more than one!!
Congratulations to all the designers!!
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Dan Beezie
August 1st, 2009 3:55 pm
night at wuxi
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Rawan
August 2nd, 2009 2:14 am
Every month I wait for these to come out so that I can change my desktop wallpaper. Some of these are nice but others are not too impressive and the plagiarized ones just should not be posted at all also the ones done using websites like photofunia should not be here either!
The photofunia ones are done using these two links:
Link 1 and Link 2
I think SM should set rules such that the work is the original…I dont think there should be a theme or style for each month because I personally would like to choose my own style or theme each month…But rating and award would be a great idea to give incentive to designers to make their best effort.
as for my favorites:
vivid green, a lazy august afternoon, bright summers eve, and hum :)
Thank you all for your efforts :)
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CXT
August 2nd, 2009 3:17 am
Unfortunately Puneeta Prakash made an error with the calendar. She’s one day of
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Ayush Jain
August 2nd, 2009 5:37 am
Awesome Collection !!!
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beto machado
August 2nd, 2009 6:03 am
every month i collect the best and put on a folder.
after that, i select the option “change the wallpaper 5min” on my mac and the entire month i see different and criative wallps.
thanks sg!
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g wells
August 2nd, 2009 6:34 am
I tend to like the more minimal desktops such as Hummm which is what I chose for August. Otherwise, I look for fun items such as Sleeping Moon, Busy Planet and Do the Dance. For Hummm,I like the fact that the stems of the flowers separate the dates as a regular calendar would. Very nice choice this month!
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Allie
August 2nd, 2009 7:48 am
Best collection yet. Thanks!
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dion
August 2nd, 2009 9:45 am
Have saved 4 designs:
“Horse Rider”
“Ride on the Green wave”
“Hummm”
“Sunflower Eclipse”
Can’t say which I like the most, so maybe I’ll have each one week this month :)
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BungleFeet
August 2nd, 2009 9:47 am
This month’s collection is the best in a while. Lovely stuff!
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Ariel Shabo
August 2nd, 2009 10:50 am
I swear the one by Anil Omanwar was taken from a website. He just uploaded a pic. Here is the site if you don’t believe me http://www.photofunia.com/ I’m not trying to spam or anything but just letting you know.
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Dawn B.
August 2nd, 2009 11:26 am
I really look forward to the beginning of the month because I get to come here to choose a new desktop wallpaper. This month, I really loved the “Happy Friendship Month” until I realized that it was one day off and that the 31st is left off. I wish someone could correct it and resubmit it. Now, even though I’m disappointed at not being able to use my favorite, I chose “Peony Pink.”
I’ll look forward to next month!
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NBA
August 2nd, 2009 3:50 pm
lovin’ the memories one!
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catchYOYO22
August 2nd, 2009 4:05 pm
thanks to “life or death” for provoking valuable thoughts =]
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Lynn de Sherbrooke, Québec
August 2nd, 2009 4:29 pm
Merci et Félicitations Mélanie Denis pour ton calendrier du mois de mon anniversaire. ” I’m a frog, you’re a frog, kiss me!” Robert Charlebois, chanteur du Québec.
Thank you et Congratulation Mélanie Denis from Quebec, Canada for my birthday calendar. “I’m a frog, you’re a frog, kiss me!” Robert Charlebois, singer from Quebec
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tomoko
August 2nd, 2009 4:58 pm
I just came back from barcelona and picks up the nice casa mila roof top photo!
thanks,!
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w-zhe
August 2nd, 2009 7:47 pm
Night at Wuxi !!!!
I LOVE IT@@@!!!
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Satinder Pal Singh
August 2nd, 2009 8:20 pm
In happy friendship month calender is not ok, dates are wrong
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Shalinee Sinhg
August 2nd, 2009 8:23 pm
cuteeee…. :)
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Shailesh Patel
August 2nd, 2009 9:52 pm
In “Happy Friendship Month” Date are wrong..! Please provide again a beautiful calendar with changes,,! I am lovin’it.
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Kate
August 2nd, 2009 10:36 pm
Thanks for all the great wallpapers, my favourite is Hummm :))
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Dré
August 2nd, 2009 11:06 pm
Put in some Dual Screen wallpapers.. Who doesnt have dual screens these days?
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Lenka
August 2nd, 2009 11:31 pm
Nice collection but I miss more wallpapers in resolution 1400×1050 :(
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Alok Jain
August 2nd, 2009 11:44 pm
Designs are really awsome, but calenders are incorrect at some places. One example is “Happy Friendship Month”
You should do some quality check before posting.
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Marta Paniti
August 3rd, 2009 12:11 am
cooooool! :D
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Nicola
August 3rd, 2009 12:13 am
Memories uses the same coffee cup as May’s Melancholy wallpaper – to me, this months submissions are very poor, wrong calendars, the same picture of the girl, bolt hamster (how on earth this slipped through the net) and poor pictures with rubbish brushes thrown around the edges!! Shame on you smashing!!
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Happy friendly month
August 3rd, 2009 12:19 am
Happy Friendly month is really pretty. But the month is incorrect!!! :(
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Andy Davies
August 3rd, 2009 12:23 am
Hi,
Great series, I follow it every month. It would be good to have some bookmark links for each individual desktop. So can email friends a specific link to this page with a bookmark tag that jumps to the relevant entry.
That way I can email a friend one I think they might like but they can also see the others in case they prefer another.
Thanks,
Andy
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balramSingh
August 3rd, 2009 12:24 am
The wallpaper design are good!!! but some corrections has to be made in some calender!!!
but the design for friendship day is awesome , thanks to Puneeta Prakash
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Geoffrey Gordon
August 3rd, 2009 4:04 am
As always a Brilliant collection, I look forward to this post once a month and will submit my own one day, well done all, my favorite goes to “Happy Friendship Month” august calender
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Jim Hopper
August 3rd, 2009 5:54 am
I enjoy these wallpapers each month. But this month’s Firefly tribute was an especially nice surprise. Thank you!
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Martin
August 3rd, 2009 6:30 am
Jeebus. Lately I’ve been really down on the monthly wallpapers, choosing to find a random one elsewhere, but damn. Amazing selection this month!
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adriana
August 3rd, 2009 6:41 am
In the Butterfly Effect one it should say “affect”, not “effect”, they are completely different words with different meanings. (In the quote within the wallpaper, not the title).
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Kelsey
August 3rd, 2009 8:21 am
these are great! I love looking through them every month.
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Otto Rascon
August 3rd, 2009 8:43 am
Thanks for a new set of wallpapers. I am really digging “Rock the Web.” This design will be gracing my desktop for an entire month. Hats off to Alexey Chernishov from Ukraine. Thanks.
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Cindy B.
August 3rd, 2009 9:36 am
I just found you and I like this August collection – even the ones made at photofunia.com are nice but I don’t know if they should be allowed.
I prefer a dark background and there are some good ones here.
Thanks.
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Pedro
August 3rd, 2009 10:34 am
to improve the quality of the page you should publish wallpaper for multiple screens… at least for 2 screens.
T.y. every month i pass around to get a new wallpaper.
Pedro, From Brazil.
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Overkast
August 3rd, 2009 10:53 am
Grrrr… This is the 2nd time the calendar post didn’t show up in my reader.
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Lela
August 3rd, 2009 12:14 pm
Love the Firefly tribute!
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Diane
August 3rd, 2009 2:39 pm
I really love your site.
Congrats for these creative wallpapers!
I enjoy to decorate my PC with a nice wallpaper of yours every month.
Kind regards from Mx.
Diane
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Rita
August 3rd, 2009 3:10 pm
Wonderful creative work!!!!
I love the variety each month.
Smashing is the best!!
Thank you for your website
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Ziggy Pop Stardust
August 3rd, 2009 4:52 pm
I do not think any theme or style, topic, rating or voting should be implemented here. Once you start “framing” creativity, you lose creativity in the purest sense. Just allow to be creative and see what you get.. Free expression is the best.
No voting because design, art, and any appreciation of creativity is very subjective. Let if flow!
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yhelman
August 3rd, 2009 8:27 pm
Great Collection!!! Nice Post…..
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Leo.
August 3rd, 2009 10:51 pm
I’ve noticed Hadedah Ibis has the third week of august missing 23-29.
i just love the art shown here. thank you everyone.
Leo.
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Simon
August 4th, 2009 3:26 am
Please please PLEASE can we have dual screen wallpapers!
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CG
August 4th, 2009 5:22 am
Deep Green for me
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Pixeam
August 4th, 2009 6:46 am
Loved Puneeta Prakash’s wallpaper!
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Redlamp
August 4th, 2009 7:49 am
High resolutions would be nice. I run my monitor at 2560 x 1600.
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Robin
August 4th, 2009 11:00 am
As a batch, I didn’t like these as much as in previous months. My favorite, however, was the blue sunflower. I do look forward to seeing these each month.
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zanzla
August 4th, 2009 1:52 pm
cé assez spirituelle comme images …..
je trouve que cé hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice
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Kusuma
August 4th, 2009 2:33 pm
Love the “Memories” wallpaper…
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neha
August 4th, 2009 7:38 pm
liked kowal’s hmmm…
cute and simple and not overdone.
this month is totally 10x’s better than the last
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Line of Design
August 5th, 2009 1:33 am
Nice designs this time.
Inspiring after comming back from vacation. Thanks y’all!
The most inspiring for me this time:
Was: Bored?
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Lukc
August 5th, 2009 4:59 am
Hamster! :D
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Hubert
August 5th, 2009 5:18 am
I love how the Firefly wallpaper came in iPhone sizes.
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ownvels
August 5th, 2009 6:20 am
Super Wallpaper and Calendar
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ownvels
August 5th, 2009 6:24 am
Very Special Calendar and Wallpapers Use full thinks
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Fung
August 5th, 2009 11:39 am
This is so lovely, thanks for this.
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Bischita
August 5th, 2009 2:28 pm
Awesome!!
I love all the wallpapers!! A wonderfull idea!! :D
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Ste V
August 5th, 2009 3:40 pm
Beautiful wallpaper ! but I see an error in the calendar in “Hadedah Ibis” : missing the number 22 23 … 30 !
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kusu
August 5th, 2009 6:18 pm
the one with “Unleashing Happiness”
It is just a template. Nothing amazing at the wallpaper “Unleashing Happiness”.
Really dissapointing
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Ellen
August 5th, 2009 7:00 pm
Hey Manuel,
I love your Wallpaper “Big Catch”. Thanks for your great work, its really inspiring!
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Wendy
August 5th, 2009 10:52 pm
Love every collection published……….. very creative
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Patrice Poliquin
August 6th, 2009 4:38 am
I’m a Frog, you’re a Frog, Kiss Me! Ouais bien dis! Vive le québec Mélanie! Good idea to make someting different for the next calendars post. SM
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Atiseret
August 6th, 2009 9:31 am
Todos son excelentes!!
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Aurora
August 6th, 2009 10:16 am
I’m not too impressed with this month’s entries, sorry to say, but I do like August shines. Just a teeny little note about the Hadidas Ibis wallpaper: the Hadida is not actually native to South Africa, and it’s a BLOODY ANNOYING BIRD!!!
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Tam
August 7th, 2009 12:27 am
@ Aurora… It doesnt say the hadedah is native to South Africa, it says I am!
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Kermin F.S.
August 7th, 2009 2:39 am
The artists who have so generously shared their exceptional talent to us mere mortals through Smashing Magazine all these years deserve an unending standing ovation! Thank you!
This month, I am most affected and haunted by “Giving up the Demons.” Powerful image.
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Adrian Sweeney
August 7th, 2009 3:07 am
Any possibility if getting these each month in a window 7 rotating desktop theme?
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Tami
August 7th, 2009 5:37 am
This seems rather odd, but…this post never showed up in my feed reader.
The feed I am subscribed to is >> http://rss1.smashingmagazine.com/feed/ >> and I seem to be getting most of the posts, but I was on the page to send a link to a friend when I saw this one down the list and realized I’d never seen it before.
I did doublecheck my feed (I use google reader) and it’s definitely not in the list.
Awesome submissions this month, by the way. It was hard to choose, but the happy dancing monsters background is my favorite. Who CAN’T smile at them? Not me!
(Although the hamster one being so obviously based on the Bolt movie gave me a pause.)
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ivan zapata
August 7th, 2009 9:12 am
gracias muy creativo
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Pixader
August 7th, 2009 6:45 pm
That’s very owesome!!
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Wendy
August 7th, 2009 7:34 pm
Great variety this month. There were three that I liked the best:
Hededah Ibis, Memories and Hummm
Of course, as always, I downloaded more so that I have plenty to choose from over the course of the month.
Keep’em coming! =)
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Foup
August 8th, 2009 1:13 pm
I totally love “Do the dance”. Congratulations :)
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Lisa
August 8th, 2009 3:42 pm
Thank you to the talented artists who submit every month.
The zebra was my favorite, and I loved the firefly tribute.
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scott
August 8th, 2009 4:33 pm
I think that these desktop wallpapers would be better if the main portion of the pictures and/or the calendar were not to close to the bottom of the pic. I run with my taskbar larger than the default and I have to bypass all entries that have ’something’ down at the bottom. I would suggest keeping the important parts higher than 3 times the height of the taskbar.
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Thincho
August 8th, 2009 9:40 pm
Brigado for “do the dance”… :)
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Heloisa Melino
August 10th, 2009 5:40 am
Loved the “Tiny monsters dance party” theme! Congrats to the creator!
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MZM
August 10th, 2009 9:55 am
Love this site. Please no themes. I like seeing a great variety each month. Exposes me to stuff I would not normally see.
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TomTom
August 11th, 2009 12:57 pm
Faves this month: Hadedah Ibis for the desktop. Quiet Blue for the notebook.
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think!!
August 13th, 2009 2:53 am
There are already many monitors with larger resolution than 1600…., it would be nice to have more wallpapers with a resolution above 2000… .
But still wonderful and great work.
thx,
think!!
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Silly
August 13th, 2009 1:51 pm
My fav: Summer Colours, with the fish. Simple, not overwhelming, but bright and cheerful! Just what I like for a desktop. :)
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Linda
August 13th, 2009 7:54 pm
I, too, like the variety, and enjoy learning new things about each month, in such a creative way. Of course, I always like some better than others, but that’s why you allow so many choices, right?
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Shipra
August 14th, 2009 1:11 am
boring….i’ve been visiting since nov.last year and july & august have been so boring……
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Tracey
August 14th, 2009 6:28 am
Um all okay except for the “UNLEASHING HAPPINESS” Since it wasn’t designed by Omanwar. This is actually a website that you upload a picture and it generates this for you. Can’t believe that it’s actually up there. If you don’t believe me check it out…
http://photofunia.com/effects/pavement_drawing/
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waldisley
August 14th, 2009 12:31 pm
First ever seen in a single month wallpapers so beautiful and creative.
Congratulations to all artists designers.
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don
August 15th, 2009 8:07 am
hey i have browsed this site for the first time and good stuff PPL but if u can have somthing funky that would be great
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Sayed
August 15th, 2009 10:31 pm
I love smashingmagazine …….
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bhargava
August 17th, 2009 9:33 pm
i dont think the graphics are so good….nothings quite real..earlier one’s were better
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Lateef
August 20th, 2009 7:32 am
Awesome!!! August was a great month!
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DJ
August 23rd, 2009 9:00 pm
What type of wallpapers are these. They look like from the 90’s. They has to be modern and creative. I expect SM to be choosy on selecting wallpapers. PLS….
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VJ GoNx@
August 24th, 2009 10:11 am
thank`s for all those desings, congratulations for your job
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Mareike
August 29th, 2009 2:25 am
It is incredible.every months i am looking at them and I cannot believe how creative they all are. this is really GREAT art!!! Congratulations from Germany
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me
August 30th, 2009 8:43 am
Shame somebody put Smashing Magazine all over these. It really ruined the look…
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PTaylor
August 30th, 2009 10:40 am
The next month needs to be avialable before the end of the month.
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DHope
August 30th, 2009 3:46 pm
“The next month needs to be avialable before the end of the month.”–PTaylor
+1 We need to have September ready to go now! Too busy on Monday
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Will
September 2nd, 2009 6:00 am
The best one for me is Night at Wuxi.
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snnaqvi
September 16th, 2009 10:27 pm
The third wallpaper “Vivid Green” is not ” Designed by Sagar from Bangladesh. its designer is iuneWind from Russia http://iunewind.deviantart.com/art/Green-Dawn-58523794, he just put calendar and SM logo on it.
I agree with @Enoo that adding a calendar and a logo to a painting that is not yours (without changing it otherwise and without giving credit to the author) doesn’t count as “design” :/
(SM) Thank you, the wallpaper was removed.
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wiliam
September 19th, 2009 3:38 pm
Realmente ótimo. Parabens.
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confetti
September 29th, 2009 8:16 am
I love those wallpapers, and the variaty eachmonth, and i missed one month (August) life is just speeding up.
So PLEASE,
Each month should have a specific style (pop art / minimalism etc.)
Each month should have a specific topic (fantasy / retro etc.)
No – NO – NO
I would prefer to have a variay eachmonth, what elese should I do, when I do not find a style I like? Live w/o a calendar? I think the month is already a topic with the variation of time of the year.
KEEP it the way it is, it is PERFECT. and keep it on, please
An incentive for the designers would be great and a rating system might be o.k.?, no, better not. Design is so
I always take my time and skip through all 50 designs, so I can find sth I did not now I like. And I do not need to know what others like. That would influence in a way that should not be. This is about design and not about technique.
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