Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)
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 the default time application?
This post features 80 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 April 2010?
Splatter
"Inspired by an area of my painting studio." Designed by Stephanie Crisalli from USA.
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Unknown Beauty
"I’m a 21 year old student from the Netherlands. My school project was to make a wallpaper for this contest ^^So i did..Why the girl? this was my first vector and i wanted to show you all.Greetz,Jeroen van den Brand." Designed by Jeroen van den Brand from Netherlands.
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Design Sleep Design
Designed by Krystian Kubicki from Poland.
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Spring Flower
"Shot with a 50mm lens. I love bokehs. And this flower was so springy I had to shoot it.Enjoy and Happy Easter!" Designed by Anca Varsandan from Romania.
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Little April
"In the spring I have a lot on my mind and no rest day." Designed by Anna Skibinska from Poland.
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Oops Illustration
"Oops! – wallpaper is devoted to upcoming onset :)" Designed by Egor Kosten from Ukraine.
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Happy Easter
"HQ-wallpapers and Smashing Magazine wishes you a Happy Easter" Designed by Paul from USA.
Easter Bunny With Painted Egg
"This month I decided to make something related to Easter , so it’s a painted egg and a bunny :D" Designed by Alexandra Ipate from Romania.
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Spring Bunny
"The bunny family for Easter and whole April" Designed by Kamila Norys from Poland.
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Spring Bunny
Designed by Andrei Tudorica from Romania.
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Don’t Mess with Mr.Hare
"Greyhound learns a valuable lesson about messing with the hare at Easter" Designed by Tom Bradshaw from United Kingdom.
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Easter Bunny
"A white Easter Bunny standing in the tall green grass." Designed by Narcis Lupou from Romania.
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Easter Bunny
"The scene represents a bucolic place. There’s a little bunny in a green field with two trees and bushes. He’s taking a greeting of “happy easter”. On the horizon there are white clouds in the blue sky. On the top-right cloud lays the smashing magazine logo while the days of april’s month flying in that sky." Designed by Laura Sclavi from Italy.
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Let’s read with Tiger
"Theme: International Children’s Book DayI dedicate my illustration to children. I decided to draw my story with a little tiger, because2010 is Tiger’s year. My illustration combines this two events.:)" Designed by Miglena Boncheva from Bulgaria.
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Secrets
"I was inspired by a photograph of Olivia Bell, on DeviantART and thought it would be quite cool as a wallpaper! Happy April and enjoy!" Designed by Rosanna Bell from England, UK.
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April Showers
"Living in Seattle, there are always showers…especially in April" Designed by Lauren Curtis from United States.
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Carpe Diem
"Carpe diem (from latin) means to live fully. like a man who is not afraid from anything, and despite of a pain caused by a fire, he is fully happy. during the april, also the nature wakes up, as well as we should to start live fully." Designed by Tomas Golha from Slovakia.
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Sweet Messy
"April is hot and messy in sun, colors and mushrooms April is hot and messy in sun, colors and mushrooms" Designed by Romy Menegazzi from Brazil.
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Spring Beez
"For me, the bees signify April, spring and the sunny days beginning." Designed by Eugenie Huard from California, USA.
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New Beginnings
"Designed for daily inspiration and encouragement to live life." Designed by Millicent Bowman from USA.
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Global Warming Warning
"I just wanted to remind you, guys, that we should all take care of our planet and don’t forget about global warming too! ;)" Designed by Andrei Verner from Russia.
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Imagine April
"Use this wallpaper as an motivation for your creation." Designed by Klement Grgić from Croatia.
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Legs Legs Legs
"I thought I’d try to make something fun and cheerful for April, and not overly Easter-ish! Just a little funky wallpaper – probably mainly for girls!! Happy April 2010!" Designed by Rosanna Bell from England, UK.
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Circle of Love
"Lite Romance using Typography" Designed by Bassam Elbiltagi from Egypt.
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Green Strings
"Guitar is one of my favorite musical instruments and April is celebrated as International Guitar month. So, I have designed this wallpaper to express my love for Guitar. :D”" Designed by Upasana Jain from India.
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Delighted
"The only word that come into my mind is ‘Delighted’ when I see this beautiful, charming and innocent creation of God. That is my way to appreciate beauty of Daisy flower.”" Designed by Upasana Jain from India.
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Eye of the Sun
"Sunset over the English Bay, Vancouver." Designed by Matthew Lawless from Canada.
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Spring Discovery
"It’s a springtime in Belgrade finaly!.:)" Designed by Jana Jelovac from Serbia.
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Banana Slip
"I had an idea about a big monkey/gorilla with a lovely girl in his neck. The girl is a little bit dominant and she points him at the banana. So I drawed it on a paper, scanned it and work it all out in Illustrator and Photoshop. The idea is that the monkey has drop his banana on the floor, which is dangerous because someone can slip over it. So the little girl points at the banana and the monkey/gorilla has to pick it up, before someone is going to slip over it." Designed by Eelco Verbrugge from Netherlands.
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Miss April
Designed by Tijana Bulatovic from Serbia.
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Reservoir
"I was inspired by the movie ‘reservoir dogs’" Designed by Pim de Vries from The Netherlands.
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Creeping Up
"Another month creeping up on us. Seems like 2010 just started, but here’s April!" Designed by Kris Koubaddy from United States.
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Healing Nature
Designed by Sietse Visser from The Netherlands.
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My World
"”My World”… This creation was inspired by the floating islands, create an island with my own body." Designed by Natanael Fernández from Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominicana.
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The Parrot Catching Season. Arrrr!
"Ever thought why pirates had parrots? Well they exotic animals were expensive back in the pirate days. Catching and selling the colorful parrots back at home was a nice profit for the pirates." Designed by Robert Wojciechowski from Australia.
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Sunset Playtime
"I created this while I was reminiscing about my childhood and how much fun i had playing when the sun was setting. I wish i could rewind time and go back to those days of just feeling free." Designed by Elyse Jones from USA.
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Illustration of Urban Woman
"One of my digital illustrations turned calendar for the month of April." Designed by Johnny Del Guercio from Canada.
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Transformers
Designed by Artcream from Netherlands.
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Patlabor Ninja
"Patlabor is one of my favorite character anime when I was child. It always amazed me everytime I looked the details about well-designed character’s mechanical shape. So, here I create my own vector character version of Patlabor which I called “Patlabor Ninja”. I hope it’s not too bad comparing to the original design… :)" Designed by Andik Taufiq from Indonesia.
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Somewhere Some Beach
"There’s a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair,Palm trees are growing and a warm breezes blowing,I picture myself right there On Some beach, somewhereThere’s ship cruice with music, dancing and lovers romancingIn the salty evening air, On some beach Somewhere…" Designed by Neelam Asrani from India.
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Clint Eastwood
"A simple easy tribute to Clint Eastwood." Designed by iheb003 from Tunisia.
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Little People
"Two little people are hiking in the fresh spring forest. You should go too!" Designed by István Szép from Hungary.
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Taxi Whale
"Even the whale needs job when our world’s been drown :D . Stop global warming! before it’s too late." Designed by M. Nur Lanta Adena from Indonesia.
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Love the Earth
"April 22nd is Earth Day, but shouldn’t every day be?" Designed by Phidev Inc. from USA.
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Another Pink Rabbit in Love
"Let’s have fun with acronyms!" Designed by Binario Creativo from Italy.
April Showers
"If the old saying holds true, this retro-cute shower will bring the May flowers!" Designed by tech from USA.
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Buddha
Designed by Artcream from Netherlands.
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Wood Desktop
Designed by Indeziner from Romania.
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Happy Cake Shop
"Tasty treats sit in the sun, celebrating the start of spring." Designed by Chris Alexander (Yipori) from England.
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Monsters In April
"Uh, it took me forever to make this since I was having my junior high final exam this April. Hope you like it! And be sure to check my DeviantART!" Designed by Adrian W (Ryan Kon) from Indonesia.
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Wash Away
"For my home country, April is always a rainy season filled with cherished memory of the deceased. The rain is washing away our sorrow and cleansing the earth where our beloved lying under" Designed by Jade Cheng from USA.
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Spring Fun
"Spring is the season of fun and joy. I have used spring and daisy flowers to express the joy. Even the fonts are adding funny mood to this wallpaper.”" Designed by Upasana Jain from India.
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Ride a Bike
"With spring rolling around (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), it’s time to dust off the old bicycle and get some much needed fresh air and exercise. Let this wallpaper encourage you to spin your wheels at least once this month." Designed by Dan Sweet from USA.
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Cinematic Squirrel
"There is just something awesome about opening your laptop and having the eyes of a quirrel stare deep into your soul. Maybe it’s just me, but I absolutely love it!" Designed by Jake Donahue from USA.
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What’s for Lunch
"Don’t you think it’s for free, my dear bunnies!" Designed by April Joy E. Jasmin from Philippines.
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Surprise Its Me
"Month of April is well known for Fool’s day. April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day is a day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on a fool’s errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. I designed this wallpaper to represent the Month of april in my way, which begins with the fool’s day. I designed this wallpaper to represent the Month of april in my way, which begins with the fool’s day." Designed by Vanshika Wadhwani from Bahrain.
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Have A Martini?
"Working too hard? Take a break, have a martini." Designed by Stephanie Lam from Australia.
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Abandoned Stone Door
"Due to my love for spontanious photography, this photo was also made in that way, in one simple monday afternoon walk. It shows entrance to one of the uptown parks in capital of Croatia. Photo was taken with cell phone, filtered in PhotoScape, and finished in Photoshop CS4." Designed by Lahorka Lojen from Croatia.
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April Fools
Designed by Frank van Oudhuizen (AddictDesign) from Netherlands.
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Illustration
"Richard Shuback’s “Heated Discussion” takes a light satirical look at how corporate America communicates in 2010." Designed by Richard Shuback from USA.
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Poor, Dear, Silly Spring
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens" Designed by Mac Funamizu from Japan.
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Mirror
"I describe a mirror that has been cracked :D" Designed by Rifki Budikusuma from Indonesia.
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Paisley in The Office
"A paisley/swirly doodle paper-textured desktop with office stationery." Designed by J E Pearce from New Zealand.
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I Heart April
Designed by Elyse Jones from USA.
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Flower of Power
"This wallpaper is dedicated to my wife, Jenny. Celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary this month!" Designed by Sven Johnson at Modern Postcard from USA.
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TreE MadNeSs
Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.
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Isometric Indulgence
"An isometric artwork made out of simple shapes." Designed by Abdus Salam from Pakistan.
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Sunrise Grazing
"April is one of my favourite months, in England everything begins to come to life and the sun is out! I know it’s Easter, but I know a lot of people don’t always like Easter wallpapers, so here’s something different!" Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.
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April Sky
"The derivation of the name April (Latin Aprilis) is uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, “to open,” in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to “open,”" Designed by Sagar from Bangladesh.
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The However
Designed by Benoit Chartron from France.
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Clock
"Inspired by some comment-leavers to create a more minimal desktop wallpaper with lots of space for icons and whatnot." Designed by Eli Burford from Australia.
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Reactor Number 4
"On April 26, 1986, reactor number 4 of the Soviet Chernobyl powerplant triggered a nuclear meltdown. It was the worst nuclear disaster in human history. The radioactivity released on that day irradiated thousands of people; the area will remain inhabitable for centuries. This photograph shows the reactor today, and is part of my Chernobyl photo journal." Designed by Timm Suess from Switzerland.
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Aura
Designed by Blake Gentry from USA.
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April Sentense
"Just motivating sentence for April :)" Designed by Temeshi from Poland.
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Postcard from SF
"A personal postcard from Molden, mountain top in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Great view, though only a small taste is given through this postcard. Should I say: Visit Norway!?" Designed by Asbjørn Ness from Norway.
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Revolution
"Everyone sometimes needs some change in life. Maybe April will be the right time for your revolution?" Designed by Wouter Sioen from Belgium.
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April Daisy
"I chose Daisy flower as a theme for this wallpaper because it is known as birth flower for April [My month :)]. I used only two effects i.e. ( Drop shadow & Inner glow) of Photoshop to design this wallpaper. I hope you will also like them…”" Designed by Upasana Jain from India.
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Space Lines
"I`ve decided to create very simple futuristic theme and I`m pretty sure, April (and 1st particulary) is the period of a year in which you can see lines in the space ;)" Designed by Marek Chrenko from Slovakia.
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Skull Break
Designed by jadekone from Venezuela.
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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 this month? Please let us know in the comments! And have a smashing April, folks!

















































































Qbin
April 1st, 2010 9:23 amToo bad that “Sunset Playtime” I like very much is useless for me as callendar. Please, next time think about Windows users with toolbar at bottom…
Sorry, April Joy E. Jasmin. Not this time ;-)
And the winner is… “Oops illustration”. Great work!
Rob
April 1st, 2010 9:23 amThe squirrel will be on my desktop this month. Hope you like it too Mo when browsing.
Bill
April 1st, 2010 9:45 amMy favorite is definitely Splatter. It has an excellent layout and clean design for my desktop. My icons look great against the simple wood texture. Great job everyone who submitted work this month!
GUSTAVO LIMA
April 1st, 2010 9:46 amADOREI TODOS!
liz
April 1st, 2010 10:38 amNice ones. I like the martini – break – wallpaper most. But you left out a whole week. There is no 19 – 25 april in this calender!?
zsameer
April 1st, 2010 10:41 amthanks. great wallpapers.
Ann Teve
April 1st, 2010 11:03 amI just love Secret. So subtly evocative, suggesting so much with so little. I’m coming back every month from now on. How cool is this!
Rosanna Bell
April 2nd, 2010 6:14 amOh wow, thank you! <3
msdmv
April 1st, 2010 12:09 pmLOVE this months selection (*^_^*)
Julianne
April 1st, 2010 12:40 pmWow, a few grumpy ungratefuls here among the commenters – maybe their contributions were rejected? Lol. I like most of these wallpapers, overall they work well with most monitors in my opinion and they cover a wide spectrum of colours and moods, are very good quality, and are also imaginative. Thanks to all the generous designers and also thanks so much, Smashing!!
Marie El
April 1st, 2010 1:16 pmTreE MadNeSs and April Sky are my faves this batch… although a few others caught my eye!
Beth
April 1st, 2010 2:18 pmI really enjoy “Splatter!”
Mark
April 1st, 2010 2:46 pmApril Sky and Splatter are my favorites.
Aldo
April 1st, 2010 4:04 pm“Taxi Whale”. Greetings from Chile
DELADE
April 1st, 2010 4:15 pmWho can pick A favorite… they’re all so nice.
Three of my favorites are:
- Happy Easter (sweet)
- Secrets (sexy)
- Somewhere Some Beach (surreal)
Thank you for sharing more great wallpaper.
~Hi, my name’s DELADE and I’m a wallpaper addict =)
Rosanna Bell
April 2nd, 2010 2:08 amThank you Delade, glad you like my “Secrets” wallpaper! :)
DELADE
April 5th, 2010 5:48 amYou’re welcome.
Rifki Budikusuma
April 1st, 2010 6:21 pmThank you have been showing my image. Once again Thank You Smashing Magazine.
Angie in Mexico
April 1st, 2010 9:13 pmI chose paisley for my scree, but Reactor Number 4 is impressive. I also liked the Abandoned Stone Door.
Saludos desde Mexico!
Dibakar Jana
April 1st, 2010 9:49 pmI love the collection. I am making a wallpaper for the May Edition.
Poonam
April 2nd, 2010 12:43 amGreat collection…………. all of them are gr8 but i like “My world” the most. I’m looking forward to design a Calendar for the month of May.
Bea Litao
April 2nd, 2010 12:54 amThis is quite a big collection of wallpapers! I’m loving it! I’ll have to look forward to May’s collection!
Sherbo
April 2nd, 2010 2:58 amGreat colleciton. Thanks.
wIzArd
April 2nd, 2010 3:37 amthank for your picture!!
i really like this….
rikut
April 2nd, 2010 6:25 amLove the April Sky. Exactly what I needed…
Thanks!
John
April 2nd, 2010 6:31 amIllustration of Urban Woman nice illustration. Will do me for this month, thanks.
Dianne
April 2nd, 2010 8:00 amI like New Beginnings with Splatter coming in second. Thanks!
thebrunettebaker
April 2nd, 2010 8:28 amYet again, some marvelous art from worldwide talent. Thank you artists, you make my day whenever I’m plugged in. And thanks again to Smashing for making it available to the rest of us.
paulis
April 2nd, 2010 9:14 amget out and ride a bike!!!!!
Kapot
April 2nd, 2010 9:58 amGreen Strings, I absolutely love it! Just started playing guitar myself so this is an motivation to keep playing. It’s an brilliant wallpaper. Thank you, Upasana Jain!
Upasana Jain
April 2nd, 2010 9:56 pmThanks Kapot, I hope you will learn to play guitar very soon. When you learn guitar, make a video of yourself and send us a link to enjoy!
Fran
April 2nd, 2010 10:18 amI am soooo glad I found your web site! I LOVE your wallpapers; It is easy to see all my icons yet unusual and beautiful to look at all day! My favorite this month is April Showers followed closely by TreE MadNeSS and Sunset Playtime.
sajib
April 2nd, 2010 11:10 pmawesome collection, almost downloaded 14-15 wallpapers :)
Ric
April 3rd, 2010 5:40 amand 1600×900 resolution? thanks anyway, in a single word: amazing!!
Sidd
April 3rd, 2010 6:10 amNow that defines the magazine.
You really smashed us with tonnes of stunners this April.
Thanks SM.
janie
April 3rd, 2010 6:39 amI particularly like “Wood Desktop.” I’m always caught by some great visual that also helps me organize my shortcuts.
I also liked the “Parrot Catching Season.” The vivid colors and great detail make it very appealing.
“Sunset Playtime” was a terrific combination of color and spotlights and emotion made visual. Great job.
Thanks to Smashing and to each artist who has worked, contributed and made these available. Hope you have a glimmer of understanding of the pleasure you give throughout the month as we enjoy the background (and for some of us, use the slide show of them as screensaver).
Dilipkumar Jadhav
April 3rd, 2010 10:41 amMy favorites: Splatter, Paisley in The Office, Mirror, What’s for Lunch, Taxi Whale, My World, Imagine April, Let’s read with Tiger.
Would like to especially point out the one called Let’s read with Tiger by Miglena Boncheva. It is very thoughtful of the designer to dedicate this to children & studies. Also, Taxi Whale by M. Nur Lanta Adena is a very witty take on Global Warming.
Thanks SM & all the designers for this wonderful treat for the month of April 2010.
denakeren
April 3rd, 2010 5:08 pmthanks Jadhav.. :)
Jules
April 3rd, 2010 9:00 pmSo pleased you liked my Paisley in the Office. Thanks so much.
Elyse
April 3rd, 2010 5:49 pmthanks everybody!! =]
Ash
April 3rd, 2010 6:04 pmWOW, its amazing collection.
Enk.
April 3rd, 2010 10:52 pmThe ‘Unknown Beauty’ is Elisha Cuthbert right ?
Great wallpapers this month btw.. very colorful ! :)
Jeroen van den Brand
April 4th, 2010 10:10 amYes, it’s Elisha Cuthbert ^^
Solara
April 4th, 2010 12:46 amMajority of the wallpaper are pretty nice! I love Splatter, Design Sleep Design, Spring flower, Little April, Easter Day, Sweet Messy, Global Warming Warning, Spring Discovery, My World, Illustration of Urban Woman, Clint Eastwood, Taxi Whale, Happy Cake Shop, Wash Away, What’s for Lunch, April Sky, The However and Space Lines.
But a few of them are just horrible….. It would be sad to see that sacrificing quality control just to gather as many as 80 of wallpapers. I can’t say I’m really good but I decided to join in the future.
Daudkhan
April 4th, 2010 2:52 amAll the wallpapers are beautiful..but i like :- Creeping up, Splatter, Secret, Sunset playtime..the most.
Agatha
April 4th, 2010 7:42 pmThe “Poor, Dear, Silly Spring” is beautiful! My choosen one!
SAJEERSTARLINE
April 4th, 2010 9:42 pmHi..SM….
awesome collection…thanks for the ‘save the earth’ theme…
Thank you.
Angelee
April 4th, 2010 10:53 pmAnother inspiring collection on the go.. love those with vivid colors.
Janhvi Kaur
April 4th, 2010 11:12 pmAll most every wallpaper- calenders are amazing.
Good work
Imran Khan
April 5th, 2010 12:14 amOf course it was a great collection but Smashing magazine was unable to mix the art of April Fool in wallpaper calenders.http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/themes/SM-theme-new/images/sprt-gen/sprt.png
Anyhow, great collection.
Thanks
Sagarsinh
April 5th, 2010 3:05 amAll the wallpapers are very good and beautiful I like…
Joieta Dutta
April 5th, 2010 3:32 amThough all wallpapers were great but, for me “new beginnings” was the best! Check out my blog to get your daily gossip dose and entertainment news dailygapshup.blogspot.com/
Tegan
April 5th, 2010 3:33 amThanks for a huge range of inspiring wallpapers for April. I love choosing a new one each month.
Maria
April 5th, 2010 3:52 amI guess some work has kind of stolen image. I’m talking about “Surprise Its Me” wallpaper. The original image is here http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11905313-jack-in-the-box.php
sprittibee
April 5th, 2010 4:52 amAlways enjoy downloading a few for each month. I liked a lot of them this time (hard to pick). My icons are creeping up right now, though – so I prefer the ones with the calendars in the middle or bottom middle/right.
I like:
Happy Easter
Little April
Wood Desktop
Sunset Playtime
Imagine April
and
Girl in the Rain
best.
Kim
April 5th, 2010 10:19 amI love “Splatter!” It is so vibrant and well composed.
Silvia
April 5th, 2010 10:27 amMy favorite: Girl in the Rain
ncorpse
April 5th, 2010 12:17 pmthx for this nice collection. “April Sky” is my favourite ..
Jae Xavier
April 5th, 2010 1:27 pmI love the transformers wallpaper. Sooooo old skool.
Jonathan
April 5th, 2010 4:44 pmHere is the link for all your Windows 7 users, Download the Windows 7 Theme for all wallpapers here :)
Enjoy !
Kashif M Qasim
April 5th, 2010 8:55 pmThis is alot better then last Month! Surely Great Collection. Keep it up SM!
VeeraKumar
April 5th, 2010 11:29 pmAll are glitteing and meaning full
i like Imagine April poster.
Cha
April 5th, 2010 11:50 pmNothing for dual screen?
Irfan Suleman
April 6th, 2010 12:50 amAwesome Collection
Carl Casbolt
April 6th, 2010 1:21 amWas this article tagged under wallpapers correctly as it does not appear on the normal landing page..
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/wallpapers/
This might need to be fixed so more people can find it.
César Cruz
April 6th, 2010 5:07 amThere’s a tagging error. The post should include wallpapers tag.
Teodor
April 6th, 2010 5:21 amI like the colection. It’s a nice one …for my desktop i choose “The However” :D
Tnx everybody :)
Shevonne
April 6th, 2010 8:13 amThese are awesome! Already using two of them. Why do they not show up in the Wallpaper section? I had to search for them.
Sean Sullivan
April 6th, 2010 9:33 amWow – Too many to choose from!
Pedro
April 6th, 2010 9:41 amDon’t you guys employ some kind of screening mechanism? …So as to no post garbage.
I used to come to smashing magazine to find well designed wallpapers, not the kind of crap you see everywhere else.
Half of the walls up there are utterly worthless. You’re gonna loose your reader base if you post every wallpaper a pubescent teenager with photoshop and pimples can dream up.
Brandi
April 6th, 2010 11:32 amI love……Have A Martini? Designed by Stephanie Lam from Australia.
Great way to know that something good is waiting for me at the end of the day :)
Elly
April 6th, 2010 12:22 pmLOVE THEM!
coming here every beginning of the month is a must !
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !
appreciated much 1^^
<3
cintia avila
April 6th, 2010 1:21 pmi love this wallpapers.
THX.
=-)
Emma
April 6th, 2010 4:39 pmTo all the haters, like Pedro: stop ya moaning! These people are doing this wallpaper design work for free. Be grateful or put your own stuff in. Just stop ya moaning, will ya???
Ashok
April 7th, 2010 1:23 amThe Designg the way i felt obessed. Really Superb. use more natural images instead animating.
Bilal Ahmed
April 7th, 2010 5:36 amamazing collection
brainidle
April 7th, 2010 5:46 amCome on, some are REALLY ugly! I would prefer SM would show only the Top 20 and not ALL that were sent in…
Iván Sanaguano
April 7th, 2010 7:33 amMuy bonito los fondo de pantalla. Estoy coleccionando todos de este año. Saludos desde La ruta del Spondylus-Ecuador
koala eyes
April 7th, 2010 9:51 ami like the artwork of the global warming the best, but i feel like the little people wallpaper is more fitting for my April than the other
rana
April 7th, 2010 12:45 pmWaaaaaW very nice work !
Irshadali
April 7th, 2010 8:08 pmThese are really amazing, thanks friend for all these nice pictures.
Willian
April 8th, 2010 5:12 amWell, Well, Well,
Is very good!
Felipe
April 8th, 2010 5:16 amis very nice!!
Jason
April 8th, 2010 7:41 amObviously quantity is greater than quality when it comes to wallpaper posts here on Smashing…
iheb003
April 8th, 2010 3:14 pmThank you guys for posting mine ^^
cobugi
April 8th, 2010 3:23 pmI love a lot of the wallpapers this month! no wonder it’s my birthday month :)
Hitesh Lade
April 9th, 2010 3:50 amWallpapers are always awesome,, But would be better if we could have these a few days before starting of the Month!!
CARLOS
April 9th, 2010 2:55 pmARE GREAT I LIKE “A GIRL IN THE RAIN”
30A
April 10th, 2010 2:38 amHI.
BEST wallpapers
suresh
April 10th, 2010 7:20 amVery Very Great!!! Marvelous
JePaHi
April 10th, 2010 7:35 amWow, impressively gay ones this time.
Francisco Rueda
April 10th, 2010 8:53 amAura
SoloPedrito
April 10th, 2010 9:59 pmMuy Buenos
KillaK
April 11th, 2010 10:36 pmMy favorite this month is “Global Warming Warning” from Andrei Verner. Matter of fact it is a third month in row that I’m picking out the Andrei Verner calendar. His work is awesome. I just wish he was doing it in 1280/1024 as well. Not all of the readers here are designers with wide-screen monitors :) and some of us are still using this type of screen resolution.
unwrittenscroller
April 12th, 2010 7:23 pmI’m enjoying “Postcard from SF”. The image strikes a chord in me and serves as a powerful reminder to be courageous and seek beauty and dream and open doors and have hope. Thanks for sharing it!
shamhan
April 13th, 2010 2:30 amBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEC
mel
April 13th, 2010 7:09 amI love Design Sleep Design wallpaper
kamaru
April 13th, 2010 3:57 pmwow..hope I can join the calendar contibution…well, design sleep design looks great
memo
April 14th, 2010 7:09 amlove a bunch, fav is “hidden secret”
but i also love “legs legs legs”
and “I heart april’
and “treemadness”…
Fosfor
April 14th, 2010 10:37 am“Reactor 4″ is nice photo, however the disaster was not a nuclear. It was water steam what explodes (and meltdown some fuel, which was radioactive). Real nuclear disaster could have slightly different result… slightly worse result. Thanks nature it was “only” steam.
And thanks for the walls too;)
cleawalford
April 16th, 2010 3:33 amGreat collection & the cake shop is my favourite
Anna W.
April 18th, 2010 9:35 amSpring Bunny, with the combination of Manga art and the dinner insinuations, would be the one my 12-year old daughter would pick for her desktop. Great submissions!
fbianthonyp0
April 19th, 2010 12:54 amjust great!
Hafsa
April 22nd, 2010 2:12 amLike the Taxi Whale Wallpaper….!!!
An effective way of Giving awareness about “Global Warming”…!!!
Aurora
April 22nd, 2010 9:50 amOff all those that I’ve seen of this month, April Sky definitely takes the trophy for me! Beautiful work, and awesome, simple design!
MEHUL PATEL
April 23rd, 2010 12:17 amI Love this site for speciall Monthly and So Nice Calender Wallpapers…
& Cool ICONs..
Thankx……
MEHUL PATEL
Naveed Hussain
April 26th, 2010 6:13 amthis is very nice web site for calander wallpapper’s
to good……. 100%…. cooll……..