FIFA Football World Cup 2010 Wallpapers (for Minimalism Lovers)
The 2010 Football World Cup is coming up in a couple of days and we decided to celebrate this event with an exclusive set of very simple Footbal World Cup wallpapers for minimalism lovers, created by Oliver Twardowski especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The World Cup will be held in South Africa, between 11 June and 11 July 2010, and will involve 32 teams competing for the title.
The wallpapers are grouped in countries and presented in the alphabetical order. The design is very minimal: the only changing detail of the design is the horizontal line presented on the bottom of the wallpaper. The idea was to keep the design very subtle and simple, making it possible for you to actually use the wallpaper within your work environment. So you should be able to place all desktop icons on the wallpapers without moving things around.
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Cameroon
Chile
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Honduras
Italy
Ivory Coast
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
North Korea
Paraguay
Portugal
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Uruguay
USA
2010 Footbal World Cup Resources
- Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner
A detailed Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner for the soccer/football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. - Interactive World Cup 2010 Schedule
Flash-based World Cup schedule, featuring all national teams, groups, stages, cities, stadiums and, of course, the complete schedule. - Plain text overview of World Cup 2010 Schedule
Match times are set to local time by default, but you can convert them to your time zone with one mouse click.
Extra Bonus: iPad Wallpaper .PSD Template
As a bonus to this release we also release an iPad wallpaper kit, also designed by Oliver Twardowski especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. With overlays for highlighting the viewable part of the wallpaper when the iPad is turned in horizontal or vertical direction. Designing an iPad wallpaper can be kind of tricky because of the different directions that the iPad can be turned in. That’s why the designer created that template to give him a little assitance of seeing what areas of the 1024×1024px wallpaper are visible when the iPad is turned horizontal or vertical.
Download the set for free!
The set is released under Creative Commons license. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish. The template is based upon iPad GUI PSD.
- download the .zip-package (.zip, 7 Mb)
An example of an iPad wallpaper created with the iPad wallpaper template.
Thank you, Oliver. We appreciate your work and your efforts!
Steelrocks
June 6th, 2010 11:36 amNIGERIA All The Way!!! Thanks Smashing for the cool stuff.
Job Harmsen
June 6th, 2010 11:39 amReal stunning wallpapers!
Steelrocks
June 6th, 2010 11:40 amNIGERIA All The Way!!!
Thanks for the cool stuff :))
Nikunj Tamboli
June 6th, 2010 11:45 am404 on Brazil Wallpapers :(
Ash Haque
June 6th, 2010 11:54 amIs there a version without the flag colors at the bottom? I was looking for a really minimalist wallpaper and I loved the background image there.
Phill Price
June 6th, 2010 12:01 pmHow long before you get a C&D for using the logo top left? 10, 9, 8, 7 …
Eddy
June 6th, 2010 12:10 pmThis works well on tricolors like France, but Australia for instance looks like a blue line with a red stain
galaxark
June 6th, 2010 12:12 pmHere is Great FIFA World Cup 2010 Free Wallpaper http://bit.ly/d4RL8m
KheirEddine
June 6th, 2010 12:17 pmOne Tow Three Viva l’Algérie
Mirkin
June 6th, 2010 12:33 pmIf you are interested in these then you can download and print off mini foam hands for every team in the World Cup. They fit right on your finger.
http://www.matica.com/paper-craft-toys/50/Mini-Printable-Foam-Hands-for-your-finger.html
Luca Candela
June 6th, 2010 12:33 pmThe noise grain is way too coarse, doesn’t look too good on a big screen. The idea is good though, I’m thinking about fixing it a bit and posting my own version.
Rowan
June 6th, 2010 12:52 pmeh… not the best really.
agree with luca, the grain is too coarse and with eddy, my country (australia) looks a bit dodgy
the union jack could just be stretched out like all of the others (in proportion) and all of the stars could be placed at the same size they are now, in their according places. Not sure how that’d turn out.. but its worth a try
obviously it’d be the same deal with new zealand then
However! I like the ipad wallpaper a lot more.
Eri Mehmeti
June 6th, 2010 12:53 pmThanks for the IPAD psd
lokiasred
June 6th, 2010 1:10 pmtoo simple for me! or even for other. not the best wallpaper I ever see. but what the heck right. Its Free! (:
Kieran
June 6th, 2010 1:12 pmOutstandingly average. Not pushing any bounderies here are we?
Adrian
June 6th, 2010 1:12 pmwtf?? I espected more from you…
Adam
June 6th, 2010 2:08 pmAmazing how easy it is for people to complain about something that is FREE.
Personally they aren’t my style but I appreciate the work it took to put these together. Looking forward to the world cup.
Phill
June 6th, 2010 6:37 pmI want to take a dump on your face, but hey it’s free right?
Nix
June 6th, 2010 2:13 pmNot to get too picky here, but that’s sort of our job as designers and all these silhouettes appear Anglo / Caucasian with their hair. Would have been nice to suggest some more international and African represented players. After all, it is in South Africa this year.
BORA
June 6th, 2010 3:45 pmThats what I’m talking about! Nice one!
Too sad that Turkey couldn’t make it…
DazzleCat Digital Agency
June 6th, 2010 4:56 pm3 Lions on a shirt…. :-) thanks for these
Daniel Correia
June 6th, 2010 5:55 pmFORÇA PORTUGAL!!!
Nunofos
June 7th, 2010 9:55 amGO PORTUGAL, GO!
Marco
June 9th, 2010 2:34 amHeh! Força mesmo :)
Adman
June 6th, 2010 8:26 pmWas excited to show off Australia’s colours. Too bad the flag is a few pixels in size… wtf? Why bother?
Oliver
June 6th, 2010 11:20 pmHey Adman,
yeah, it was kind of tricky to get some of the flags (australia, new zealand etc.) to fit in that design. But I think we managed that in a nice way without losing the minimal look with a to huge flag-part of the wallpaper.
Oliver
Sandro Sannelli
June 6th, 2010 9:11 pmLOL
The italian flag is wrong, it’s green-white-red, not the other way around….
Oliver
June 6th, 2010 11:18 pmHey Sandro,
where’s the problem?
To me it looks like green-white-red on all sizes. Doesn’t it to you? :)
Cheers, Oliver
8lias
June 6th, 2010 9:34 pmDownload them all, set them as desktop pix and randomly automatically changing them every 5 seconds. Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Oliver
June 6th, 2010 11:16 pmYou’re so right! That’s exactly how I use them! :)
Thanks, Oliver
durianskh
June 6th, 2010 10:37 pmi like the wallpapers
Ruan
June 6th, 2010 10:51 pmSouth Africa all the way! :)
bongo
June 6th, 2010 11:15 pmA collection of news about Slovenia and its opponents in Group C is available here: http://twitter.com/sloveniawcup
Go Slovenia!
Rene
June 6th, 2010 11:28 pmLet the games begin
Praveen
June 6th, 2010 11:28 pmGreat wallpapers !!! I love minimalism! Thank you so much Oliver Twardowski for all your hardwork. I will recommend to all my minimalist friends :)
Oliver
June 6th, 2010 11:30 pmHey Praveen,
thank you for your kind words.
Was a pleasure to design them. :)
Chris M
June 6th, 2010 11:41 pmWe created a wallpaper as well, including the iPhone version, if anyone is interested, here is the link: http://www.theforge.co.za/2010/06/01/support-bafana-bafana-in-the-world-cup-with-our-june-calendar-wallpaper/
Enjoy!
Lukas
June 6th, 2010 11:56 pmAnd as ususal nothing for guys using 3 screens… ;)
Oliver
June 7th, 2010 12:12 amWhy? Use three of them next to each other! :D
Hung Bui
June 7th, 2010 12:19 amVery nice indeed!
Hung Bui
June 7th, 2010 12:26 amBTW, Does anyone know how to create a similar effect on Photoshop?
Donovan Rabie
June 7th, 2010 1:07 amAs a proud South African. I say Bring it on!
Nice one Smashing!
Tony K
June 7th, 2010 2:29 amI won’t use it (sorry, not a soccer fan) but the Dutch version would be much better by using only an orange bar instead of our red-white-blue national colors. (Search for ‘soccer Netherlands’ images at google and you’ll see why).
My compliments for the very nice minimalistic effect.
UIRedesign
June 7th, 2010 2:46 amAwesome stuff. Thanks a ton for sharing this resource.
Thapelo
June 7th, 2010 3:25 am:(
pablorenauld
June 7th, 2010 4:34 ammmm I don’t like this
Nathan
June 7th, 2010 6:27 amWith the vibrant, explosive color designs that rather embody the global theme of the World Cup, these wallpapers seem mis-branded and drab.
rupam
June 7th, 2010 7:02 amThanks for the post beautiful wallpapers.
Best Regards
Subhadeep Gayen
June 7th, 2010 8:41 amTruly saying i din enjoy the wallpapers, they look monotonous, but as for the psd file , thanks :)
Michele Agius
June 7th, 2010 1:13 pmHey every1 :)
Check out the wallpaper that I did for the world cup :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magiusdesign/4670271606/
Thanks!
enjoy
richie
June 7th, 2010 9:16 pmFAIL. these are rubbish, sorry.
what can i say? grainy grey, does nothing for the world cup.
not exactly my idea of minimal either.
but i appreciate the effort. I just expect higher quality from smashing.
comon ENGLAND!
Isabelle
June 8th, 2010 12:19 amAwsome! thanks a lot :)
Infodigests
June 8th, 2010 1:22 amPerfect post for this FIFA season
ahmad ali
June 8th, 2010 1:41 amfootball coming home !!
Marcus
June 8th, 2010 4:43 amAll very nice etc. but why not do a feature on South African web design Smashing?
mack
June 8th, 2010 8:54 amsucks.. how do any of these web style elements connect with FIFA? I understand its just a wall paper, but why post this ? Really bad.
Hamza
June 8th, 2010 8:16 pm1.. 2.. 3.. Viva l’Algerie!! :D
rishi
June 9th, 2010 9:55 amhi this is my teem and i love football
i am nepali and from nepal we love football
Spain
England
Brazil
tahnks for fifa
Ivonne
June 9th, 2010 10:55 amWOrld cup wallpaper…very boring. AFrica is full of color, it should match the event…something more energetic and fun…
yoxx
June 9th, 2010 6:14 pmthank you very much for schedule and Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner…
opicka
June 10th, 2010 2:02 amWTF where is CZECH REPUBLIC?!
Jason
June 10th, 2010 2:10 amWhat part of “minimal” don’t the haters understand?
The designs are exactly that.
Good job Oliver. Keep ‘em coming.
Pa
June 10th, 2010 3:13 pmgreat idea, very awesome. Thanks!
buyousif
June 11th, 2010 12:23 amArgentina all the way :D
bob
June 11th, 2010 12:32 amI’m pretty intrigued by the first image.
Can anyone give me pointers on how to create the illusion of relief?
The figures seem to be “stamped” into the surface, and the relief is then nicely illuminated from above.
I really like it.
rajesh r nair
June 11th, 2010 1:20 amgreat wallpapers, thanks for sharing this
Zeeshan Ahmed
June 11th, 2010 12:38 pmI love to see football. 32 pieces become a football. Like joint the nations together on this event. Well done keep it up FIFA. Proud to be Sialkot citizen, big football making state in the world.
ALIJAN
June 12th, 2010 6:31 amHI
ASALAM AALIKUM
Lutfullah Frotan
July 7th, 2010 8:34 amWA ALIKUM ASALAM brother pray to Germany
NAZIA.ALI JAN BHATTI
June 12th, 2010 6:33 amI LOVE MY COUNTRY
zeeshan orakzai
June 23rd, 2010 5:08 pmso who say u not love ur country.
Lutfullah Frotan
July 7th, 2010 8:33 amI LOVE Germany
Jennifer
June 12th, 2010 6:49 amHi! I really like these and want to use it, but the USA colors look more like purple and pink than red, white, and blue. Any way you could make the three colors more pronounced like France? Thanks!
Muhammad
June 12th, 2010 7:11 pmHey! Thank you! I really love this post!
Milla
June 13th, 2010 4:35 amviva ita …
SHMEERGLA
June 14th, 2010 5:30 pmAre you kidding me? I mean, c’mon you guys, it took you what? 20 seconds to come up with these? All that ‘hard’ work went down the drain… EPIC FAIL!
Really expected more from you….
g
June 15th, 2010 9:59 amA lyric from Hot Chip? Really now.
Camp fire ring
June 16th, 2010 5:15 pmI love sports..Im very much into it!
thanks
camp fire
Jens aus Zürich
June 18th, 2010 3:31 amWM Südafrika … habe aber irgendwo gehört, das /dass Trainerteam von Ottmar
Hitzfeld mit einer neuen Fußballer Analysesoftware von @krib DAT gearbeitet haben soll??
sayan mukherjee
June 20th, 2010 1:47 ambogus…not much to say.
Dorker
June 21st, 2010 9:37 pmNice wallpapers! Love minimalistic designs! Yours are excellent! Don’t mind what others are bitchin’ about. Keep up the good work!
khan
July 1st, 2010 9:02 pmgreat….
Ch. Zubair
July 2nd, 2010 2:12 amI love football and i would like to appreciate them who capture and provide us such a lovely thrilling moment of football world cup 2010.
Nicole Bauer
July 6th, 2010 1:22 amI really don’t care about football, but I think the wallpaper is a great idea, simple but cool.
abhinav
July 6th, 2010 11:00 amits cool
Lutfullah Frotan
July 7th, 2010 8:27 amGermany is the champion
Mahmood Ahmadi
July 7th, 2010 8:32 amyou are right thay well win
Mahmood Ahmadi
July 7th, 2010 8:31 amGermany well win in the match
Nikmoto
November 12th, 2010 6:30 amI really love the minimalistic understatement style! It reminds me ouf my shirts: http://www.nikmoto.de
construction project management
March 1st, 2011 10:26 amwall paper on this subject is really a fine idea
construction project management
FaZaL eLaHi
June 30th, 2011 9:44 amFifa world cup is the biggest game in the world. I love this game. A best intertainment. I love football. and Congratulation Spain .. you have won the world cup first time in history. .. This is a Phenom victory …
D_VILLA
December 9th, 2011 3:16 amBE GOOD HAVE GOOD