Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2010

By Vitaly Friedman
September 30th, 2010
Wallpapers
258 Comments

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 45 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 October 2010?

Liquifly

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Any Browser

"I just wanna spread the message, “Use any browser, it doesn’t matter. But use the latest version!”." Designed by Minhaj Mohamed from Sri Lanka.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

October 2010 Wallpaper

"For October 2010, still with the summer in the head, I wanted to imagine a magic place where I can go sometimes far from work, far from the Earth." Designed by Benoit Chartron from France.

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with calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×640, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1600
without calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×640, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1600

Symbian World

"Scene from Symbian World." Designed by Anna Alfut from UK.

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with calendar: 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1020, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2048×1152
without calendar: 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1020, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2048×1152

The words I’ve never said to you

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with calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

The Colours of October

"Colourful autumn leaves." Designed by Anna-Lena Lewerenz from Germany.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1680×1200, 2560×1440
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1680×1200, 2560×1440

Breath of Fresh Air

"”Breathe in the cool air!” – if we can’t have summer, embrace the chilly air! :D Enjoy October everybody! Ps. thanks to Rosanna Bell for modelling." Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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with calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
without calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

Turning Leaves

"It is a magical time of year when trees light up from the inside and dazzle us with colors. Feast for the soul!" Designed by Kim Carney from USA.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 2560×1600
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 2560×1600

October Sentense

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

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Smart Crow

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with calendar: 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1920×1080
without calendar: 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1920×1080

10/10

"Enjoy the last sunrays in October, at least in Germany!" Designed by Marco Palma from Italy / Germany.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Sleeping Cowgirl

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with calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
without calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

Chillin’ Gnomies

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Time Intensity

"I was sorting out all my brushes in Photoshop and started playing around with loads of variations of brush strokes that I actually forgot I had. I was trying to create a cloudy hole and have a fetish with time and time traveling at the moment and it turned out to be something in between a black hole and some sort of disrupted void in the space time continuum. I liked it that much afterwards I thought I’d use it for my own desktop and then thought I’d share it on smashingmag :)" Designed by Rik Hopkinson from UK.

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1680×1200, 1915×1274
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1680×1200, 1915×1274

Eerie October

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

Pumpkin Spice Spookster

"A spooky, fun, orange-tastic wall for Halloween lovers of all ages." Designed by Allen from USA.

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with calendar: 320×480, 480×272, 640×480, 640×960, 960×800, 960×854, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1366×768, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440, 2560×1600
without calendar: 320×480, 480×272, 640×480, 640×960, 960×800, 960×854, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1366×768, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440, 2560×1600

Abyaneh

"Abyaneh is a beautiful city in Iran." Designed by Soodabeh Amirakbari from Iran.

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without calendar: 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Smoked

"Personal tribute to Winchester School of Art." Designed by Wirdy Hamidy from Brunei.

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1680×1050
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1680×1050

Harvest Sunset

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with calendar: 1280×1024, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1280×1024, 1920×1200

Ghostober

"I made this wallpaper a year ago, but i didntcame on time to send it to Smashing magazine.Serching other files i found it, and decide to finish it and post it, halloween is coming, hope you like this ghostsperms hehe!" Designed by Ricardo Delgado from México City.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 2560×1440
without calendar: 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 2560×1440

Purple Fall

"Fall is coming, and that means cool mornings, hot tea, warm jackets, and purple." Designed by Daisy Gillam from USA.

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with calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050
without calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050

Touch Autumn

"Summer is over, enjoy autumn!" Designed by Martin from Latvia.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1920×1200

Jump into Fall

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with calendar: 320×480, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 320×480, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Marissa & Liloo

"Let’s bring back authentic made by hand illustration, and follow Marissa & Liloo in their cute world. /Fr/ Retour ? l’authentique illustration faite main gr?ce ? ces adorables personnages Marisssa et Liloo." Designed by 23 Graphic Design from France.

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×1024, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×1024, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Halloween

"Designed by Violeta Dabija from Moldova." Designed by Violeta Dabija from Moldova.

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Montana Moon

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with calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

Happy Halloween

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Childish

"Children day is celebrated in October…in many countries around the world ..They are the future..
The hope for a brighter tomorrow…" Designed by Nishith from India.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Trick or Treat

"As night falls there’s magic and mischief in the air." Designed by Jason Knight (nativeBrand) from UK.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Creepy Ice-cream

"To all ice-cream lovers, let’s get creepy this October!" Designed by Carmen Ng from Singapore.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Halloween

"Halloween, the time of candies, ghosts, witches and fun." Designed by cheloveche.ru from Russia.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Happy Birthday, Nigeria!

"50 Years ago, Nigeria gained her independence from the United Kingdom. By October 1st, a golden jubilee celebration will kick-start and in a bid to commemorate this historical day, I dedicate my wallpaper to Nigerias Independence day.Happy Birthday, Nigeria." Designed by Aroyewun Babajide from Nigeria.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Don’t forget to buy eggs!

"This wallpaper is a constant reminder to buy eggs, because you know you’ll run out of eggs when you least expect. Also, I try to use free fonts in my personal projects as much as I can so this was a nice opportunity to play with Piron." Designed by Lucijan Blagonic from Croatia.

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with calendar: 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
without calendar: 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

Above The Clouds

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with calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
without calendar: 320×480, 640×480, 800×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

This Month Rocks

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with calendar: 1280×720, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
without calendar: 1280×720, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

First leave

"The first leave of winter flyout of the tree. Then the winter begin." Designed by Anh Nguyet Tran from Vietnam.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050

Trick or treat

"It’s almost Halloween time falks. We wish You loads of treats." Designed by Ewa Starzyk/2PPL from Poland.

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1024×1024, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440

Mahatma Gandhi

"Gandhi Jayanti is a national holiday in India celebrated on 2nd October. This day is celebrated in the honor of the birthday of the Father of the nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapuji." Designed by Manish Jinwal from India.

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with calendar: 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200
without calendar: 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200

Heavy Equipment

"Loosening, loading, transporting and installing of equipment with a single machine – The Caterpillar 627 G Scraper is an all-rounder old-timer in construction field. The Caterpillar 627 G Scraper is the October motif of the Heavy Equipment Calendar 2010. Weight: 25,8 Tons/ Performance: 246kW (330 PS) / Motor: Caterpillar with capacity 15,2 l (Front) & 8,8 l (Heck) / Location: Sinsheim, Deutschland" Designed by Bauforum24 from Germany.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

3d October Calendar

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with calendar: 640×480, 800×480, 800×600, 1024×640, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 1920×1440, 2560×1600

Under the Sea

"I should have posted this wallpaper in August. Just like you should have gone to the sea when it was a little warmer. But it doesn’t matter if you love the sea." Designed by Jade Cheng from USA.

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with calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1440×1024, 1680×1050
without calendar: 320×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1440×1024, 1680×1050

Dead Night

"The month the dead walk (apparently). For everyone who celebrates Halloween, with costumes, trick or treats or just a simple desktop wallpaper." Designed by Bogdan Lazar from Romania.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

Jack O Cal

"Jack O Lantern with 2010 October Calender in mouth. spooky halloween surrounding background" Designed by Lindsey Kellis from USA.

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with calendar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

Hibernating

"I think everyone has their moments when all you want to do is hide under the warm duvet covers! Have a wonderful October whatever weather you have! Ps. thanks to Rosanna Bell for modelling." Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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with calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
without calendar: 1024×640, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

Alien Invaders

"They’re coming…" Designed by Misti Kenison from USA.

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with calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1024×768, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

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 October, folks!

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Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

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VIP
October 1st, 2010 9:55 am

Very nice work this month. thanks SM :)
I like most the second one(Latest Browsers)

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Sue Jenkins
October 1st, 2010 10:07 am

Symbian World, 10/10, and Eerie October are my faves. :0

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  MP
  October 4th, 2010 9:15 am
  
  Thx.
  
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  Jennifer
  October 12th, 2010 3:28 pm
  
  Thanks Sue!
  
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M.R.
October 1st, 2010 10:23 am

I liked Liquifly the most. Thanks for posting.

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Kariane
October 1st, 2010 11:54 am

These are all great! I picked Pumpkin Spice. It was just what I had in mind!! Thanks so much!

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G
October 1st, 2010 12:14 pm

“Don’t forget to buy eggs” calendar wallpaper has Saturday and Sunday mixed up =P

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  Ed
  October 1st, 2010 1:23 pm
  
  Yep! Seems to me the SM team doesn’t even check the postings and just let the computer decide to fill the Wallpaper Calendar theme at random. The Bells must be excluded from random fill. I assume they are Smashing Magazine stockholders!
  
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    Lucijan Blagonić
    October 3rd, 2010 6:21 am
    
    It’s my fault :/ They probably foresaw it until it was published, like me :/ Sorry again.
    
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Joseph Alessio
October 1st, 2010 12:45 pm

10/10 is my favorite in this collection. As usual, quite a few mediocre ones included, but oh well! Alien Invaders is another fun one. I do like most of the Olivia Bell and Sasha Bell wallpapers we’ve been seeing quite a few of over the last couple months, but I’m not so sure about the Hibernation. Others are good, though!

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  MP
  October 4th, 2010 9:04 am
  
  Thanks a lot to you Joseph Alessio!
  
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  MP
  October 4th, 2010 9:07 am
  
  Thanks a lot Joseph Alessio!
  
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Mike Birch
October 1st, 2010 3:23 pm

What about some spring imagery for those in the southern hemisphere?

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Mack
October 1st, 2010 5:12 pm

Great collection :) My favorites are
1. purple fall 2. This month rocks
Great work by all the designers…

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Anh Nguyet Tran
October 1st, 2010 5:42 pm

That’s so cool :) Thank for choose a my calendar.
And in this month I realy like idea of : October 2010 Wallpaper – sometime I want that.
And I have interested in :
- The Colours of October
- Sleeping Cowgirl
- Montana Moon /* The picture very nice and Moon’s mean of my name :D */
- Love In Autumn
Thank for talk to me that Halloween’s coming. I’m waiting :P

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  Sasha Bell
  October 2nd, 2010 4:04 am
  
  Aww thank you I’m so glad you like “Love In Autumn” and “Sleeping Cowgirl” :)
  
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Me
October 1st, 2010 5:44 pm

This month I chose: Liquifly, The words I’ve never said to you, The Colours of October, 10/10, Sleeping Cowgirl, Pumpkin Spice Spookster, Purple Fall, Marissa & Liloo, and 3D

GREAT WORK THIS MONTH! :)

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  Matteo Palazzani
  October 2nd, 2010 8:19 am
  
  Thank you very much! :)
  
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Deepak
October 2nd, 2010 2:29 am

This one is for Manish Jinwal who Copied the image of Mahatma Gandhi to gain the attention and admire from viewers…
You can see the actual image in below link
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5255256&fbid=434640942581&id=141193332581&ref=nf

Guys its good to take inspiration….but copying someone’s designed images and using in your designs is something i don’t admire and hope you all agree with me……..

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  Achint Verma
  October 3rd, 2010 2:34 am
  
  @Deepak : Well I agree with your point of using the image of Gandhi in wallpaper but making it look so beautiful is creativity, you can compare it with link you have provided.
  
  Creativity is not just about creating everything from scratch, it’s about how you can make things look beautiful, how you can make something look better than original.
  
  I support Manish for Making & Sharing it to us, It looks great on my desktop.
  
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  Brhynn
  October 4th, 2010 6:49 pm
  
  I agree with you. Not a fan of people who take another’s work to make their own. Unless they got permission of course.
  
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Kate
October 2nd, 2010 3:36 am

Really awesome wallpapers, thanks!

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daria
October 2nd, 2010 3:44 am

My favourite one is “The Colours of October”.

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DjaVupixel
October 2nd, 2010 4:26 am

One of the best monthly collection of the last month! This one is really good thanks to all great designers who participated!

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Nirmal
October 2nd, 2010 4:35 am

No second though in the creativity but I wish they understand the fact that in most of the wallpapers the calender hides under the taskbar. I wish……..

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sanachemist
October 2nd, 2010 5:56 am

outstanding and heart touching.
keep it up!

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Peter
October 2nd, 2010 9:45 am

Nice collection. Thanks!

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Invisible Girl
October 2nd, 2010 10:10 am

My favorite: Childish =)

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Neville Spade
October 2nd, 2010 10:51 am

It’s really unfortunate that most wallpapers listed here are not of 1920×1080 resolution. have to save, edit to scale and then set.

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RH
October 2nd, 2010 3:40 pm

Jack O Cal! There were many cool pages to choose from but this one was my favorite–thanks!

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oscar
October 2nd, 2010 7:45 pm

i’m going to make “childish” by Nishith as my desktop background.. nice job! :)

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Arthur Abogadil
October 2nd, 2010 7:54 pm

I like the Colours of October wallpaper! Will give my monitor the refresh it needs! Thanks for the share!

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  Anna-Lena
  October 3rd, 2010 8:10 am
  
  Thank you for the nice feedback, I’m happy you like it!
  
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jj
October 2nd, 2010 9:44 pm

jack o cal and jump into fall my fav’s

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AMYunus
October 2nd, 2010 10:26 pm

I love the browser wallpaper :D

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roaring50s
October 3rd, 2010 5:29 am

I started to make a listing of my favs, but it grew so long I realized there was something about each entry I could claim is unique, fascinating, etc. I selected one as outstanding to me, however. The more I look at Jack O Cal by Lindsey Kellis, the more I know it will be difficult to wait for the next entry from this designer. The way this designer incorporated ghosts into clouds with the crescent moon showing through the ghosts is just astonishingly wonderful. The whole month for real I will be looking out at the moon and yep see those ghosts. And the stars… just mere stars or what? The contrast/coloring/shading of the Jack O Cal is dead on. Placement of the year 2010 and the 31st day are outstandingly done. The curlicue topping is another treat. This designer has lots of treats and tricks for me to savor and I can’t wait until next year’s Jack O Cal. The only thing I missed seeing are spiders and night-owls, but maybe those stars…

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edu
October 3rd, 2010 9:11 am

Thanks!!!

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Me
October 3rd, 2010 9:19 am

Oh wow! I love all of them! my favourites are Harvest Sunset and Under the Sea!

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oeduardosegura
October 3rd, 2010 9:53 am

Oh s***! All of them are pretty good!

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CarlSoN
October 3rd, 2010 11:44 am

10/10 is my favourite!

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  MP
  October 4th, 2010 8:57 am
  
  THX a lot CarlSoN!
  
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Breez
October 3rd, 2010 2:25 pm

10/10 – I am a “huge” fan of these wallpaper posts. I enjoyed many of these, but my favorite is “Any Browser”.

Thanks!

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  MP
  October 4th, 2010 8:59 am
  
  Thank you!
  
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Sick and tired of people who complain about FREE stuff
October 3rd, 2010 5:25 pm

October: why are there so many Halloween wallpapers?
November: why are there so many Thanksgiving wallpapers?
December: why are there so many Christmas wallpapers?
April: why are there so many Easter wallpapers?

If you don’t like Christian/Pagan/Western holiday-themed wallpapers, THEN CREATE YOUR OWN FREE WALLPAPER WEBPAGE. If there happens to be many halloween-themed wallpapers this month, its because many of SMASHING MAG’s CONTRIBUTORS enjoy this WESTERN holiday.

SMASHING MAG is a WESTERN publication, visited by many people WHO HAPPEN TO HAVE WESTERN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND CULTURE.

If you want more Asian/Aetheist -centric wallpapers, then by all means CREATE YOUR OWN FREE WALLPAPER WEBPAGE!!!

Gaah, gaah, gaah…. these kids…. every effin’ year… gah, gah….

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Sick and tired of people who complain about FREE stuff
October 3rd, 2010 5:30 pm

by the way, I’M Asian, and you don’t see me complain…

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Seth
October 3rd, 2010 7:17 pm

I downloaded the spaceship one and I created circles around each of the dates and saved them 1 by 1 so I have 31 :D and Set my background to change daily. Works like a charm.

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Coswyn
October 3rd, 2010 7:27 pm

Perfect color choices on “Pumpkin Spice Spookster”, great contrast of detail and simplicity on “Harvest Sunset”, “Montana Moon” and “3d October Calendar”.

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Sananda
October 3rd, 2010 9:41 pm

@ Nicole: U rock!! Superb piece of imagination!!! Simply Awesome…

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mahbub
October 3rd, 2010 10:37 pm

3d October Calendar

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Alvas Rawuther
October 4th, 2010 4:07 am

Really nice collection.

However, I have a problem here. I have subscribed to SMagazine but I didn’t receive only this particular post by RSS. Can anyone tell me why?

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Emmanuel
October 4th, 2010 7:42 am

As every month The wallpapers are So nice thanx U so Much from Mexico guys

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Marie Elise
October 4th, 2010 8:11 am

I’m using ‘First leave’ right now; while the others are nice, they either don’t come in the resolution that I’d like, or they have ‘Autumn’ or ‘Halloween’ themes…concepts that are understood but not experienced where I am…First leave still has some green grass, at least!

Great work, everyone.

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  Anh Nguyet Tran
  October 5th, 2010 5:41 pm
  
  :)) Thanks Marie Elise! So nice to know a version of First Leave come in your resolution. Hope you a happy October.
  
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jonnyrose
October 4th, 2010 10:27 am

hello nice blog and its very interesting, and help ful to others to…

The information given above is very nice which is use to be a graphic designer. It is very difficult task to be performed for. Thanks for your great stuffs of information provided for us in this article. I would like to appreciate your work.

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Lindsey
October 4th, 2010 11:13 am

Thanks for all the compliments on my 1st calender “Jack O Cal”. Especially roaring50s. too flattering! Rest assured I will from now on design keeping the task bar in mind! The logos are not placed well at all. I am going to fix that as well as a few other things that bother me that I did in a rush so keep an eye out on my website for updated versions.

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  roaring50s
  October 5th, 2010 5:23 am
  
  Lindsey you are very welcome. I enjoyed the visit to your site as well.
  
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Rajeev
October 4th, 2010 5:10 pm

My favorite is Mahatma Gandhi. Great work Manish!

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  jenghy
  October 4th, 2010 7:00 pm
  
  good job
  
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  Manish
  October 18th, 2010 2:27 am
  
  thanx rajeev…
  hope next month i’ll do much better…
  
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Vedha Nayak
October 4th, 2010 7:47 pm

“Montana Moon” is my favorite for this month!

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TriMax
October 5th, 2010 3:13 am

My favorite: Childish :)

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dale biagio
October 5th, 2010 4:07 am

Any Browser is awesome!

Can we have it in black too??

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  Minnix
  October 6th, 2010 1:45 pm
  
  Any Browser Wallpapers: Dark & Light
  http://fav.me/d30721h
  http://fav.me/d2zug46
  
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Pamela
October 5th, 2010 4:39 am

These just keep getting better each month. Well done to all the contributors!

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roaring50s
October 5th, 2010 5:29 am

Time doesn’t allow for complimenting what I see as creative about each and every design. I wonder if the site can place a comment feature under each one in addition to this comment section. That way we could post right to the design, it would be easier.

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Ben G
October 5th, 2010 5:52 am

How annoying that my favourite was last on the list – that was a lot of scrolling! Loving the Space Invaders!

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marlaine
October 5th, 2010 8:52 am

i like hallowe’en & 3d october :)
thanks!!

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Gracefulsista
October 5th, 2010 9:42 am

I love the Jack O Cal. Thank You!

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Candy Ellison
October 5th, 2010 10:45 am

Touch Autumn is bold and simple. Love it!

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Marilena
October 5th, 2010 11:33 am

absolutely great this month!

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hamster
October 5th, 2010 9:45 pm

I like it ~^^~

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tomoko
October 6th, 2010 12:14 am

thanks alot again. These are great!

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Hal9000
October 6th, 2010 4:20 am

Great work everybody.

After Marissa & Liloo backgrounds, the rest isn’t availabe for download in higher resolutions ? I only see the preview.

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Nikita Hengbok
October 6th, 2010 4:56 am

So beautiful!

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Nathan
October 6th, 2010 5:10 am

I just wish more people would do 16:9 ratio wallpapers… :-( Otherwise, awesome job to everyone involved! I love the monthly wallpapers.

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Yari
October 6th, 2010 5:18 am

These are absolutely gorgeous. I’m definitely excited to create my own series of desktop calendars. Thanks for the inspiration!

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maik
October 7th, 2010 12:02 am

half of them have no download links !!!

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Chibot
October 7th, 2010 1:51 am

I like the Pumpkin Spice Spookster! :-)
great work!

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OfficeCavalry
October 7th, 2010 5:19 am

Brilliant Post!

But, is there anything to support the claim that it will increase motivation? either way I’m going to give it a go!

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caoyutian
October 7th, 2010 7:31 am

The design of these desktop wallpapers is socool! The smashing team’s work is so great! I like these.

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elisa
October 7th, 2010 8:12 am

“Jack O Cal” is wonderful!

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Whitney
October 7th, 2010 10:59 am

There are so many great wallpapers here, but I’m especially torn between Pumpkin Spice Spookster and Purple Fall.

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bigfun
October 7th, 2010 9:37 pm

Dear frndz there has been 3 dates missing in the very 1st calendar that is LIQUIFLY,
the dates 12th 19th & 26th of oct 2010 thats a Tuesday which are missing….

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Lena
October 8th, 2010 4:21 am

I like “The words I’ve never said to you”, “The Colours of October”, “Turning Leaves”, “10/10″, “Jamp into Fall”, “Childish”, “Above The Clouds”, “This Month Rocks”, “First leave”
I can’t choose a favorite :)

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Daryl
October 8th, 2010 4:38 am

I like the on with a big 10/10 in the middle. My oldest daughter’s birthday is 10/10/10, so this is a very special year!

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  MP
  October 8th, 2010 5:21 am
  
  Thank you for choosing “10/10″ and
  congratulations to your daughter’s birthday!!
  
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Jonathan
October 8th, 2010 10:47 am

Why does it always seem that my favorite ones do not come in 1680×1050? This resolution always seems to be neglected.
My previous Dell that I had for 4 years was 1680×1050 and so is my current Mac Book Pro.

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Dan
October 8th, 2010 11:08 am

I love this kind of wallpapers, but its a shame that most all of them are dated wrong for some reason. For example as I write this it is the 8 of Oct. 2010 and it is Friday, on the dates listed on most of the calenders it says its the 9th. Am I the only one who has caught this.
It may be because this Oct. 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in the same month, something that will not happen again for another 823 years years.

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wahyoo
October 8th, 2010 1:47 pm

great collection, i like The Colours of October

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amberB
October 11th, 2010 7:46 am

I’d like to think that “Jump into Fall” (Designed by Kristin G Jackson from USA) is my husband and I during my up and coming fall break from classes!! :) nice work! :)

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Lisa
October 12th, 2010 3:37 am

There are so many I love I can’t narrow it down to just one. Maybe I’ll have to have a different one every few days!

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martha.Sierra
October 12th, 2010 6:23 am

I design. How can I participate in teh calendar of the month?

I really love it

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adi
October 12th, 2010 7:33 am

cool stuff……

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Jen
October 12th, 2010 7:44 am

I love the autumn scene with the gnomes! :)

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Mia
October 12th, 2010 9:29 am

I look forward to these every month! My favorites this round are Childish and Jack O Cal. Great job as always; they’re gorgeous pieces of eye candy.

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romiejohn
October 13th, 2010 12:46 am

I just went through the images and all are just amazing and mind blowing. I just like a lot through the things and also the way all the calender images are in the different way.

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toseef
October 14th, 2010 1:56 am

nice work dude….///

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ADY G
October 14th, 2010 12:33 pm

IT´S A WONDERFULL PAGE, MY FAVORITE 3D OCTOBER, CONGRATULATIONS FOR GREAT SITE.
IT´S A PLEASURE FOR MY EYES

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bosshakan
October 18th, 2010 6:00 am

really nice wallps. thanks for sharing..

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mmilenkovic
October 19th, 2010 12:33 am

Olivia Bell is truly great.

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Chris Mylonas
October 20th, 2010 6:09 am

Great work….thanks for sharing……

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Maud
October 21st, 2010 11:52 pm

My favorite : Violeta Dabija’s Halloween

Thanks for sharing !

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Karen khoo
October 21st, 2010 11:53 pm

I love the Creepy Ice-cream….It is so cuteeeeeeeeeeeee…. And I am a ice-cream lover too. HAHAHA!~ great job!

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Sugey
October 23rd, 2010 6:42 am

hermoso trabajo!!!

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LowSlash
October 25th, 2010 10:43 pm

I’m using Turning Leaves right now! Thanks :)

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Noel
October 26th, 2010 9:08 am

Im digging peuple fall and chidlish

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MI2
October 26th, 2010 9:43 pm

Awesome collection….

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Satish
October 27th, 2010 10:00 pm

Very Early release…2 more days for November.

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Kima
October 29th, 2010 8:43 am

Awesome collection, great work, thank you!

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Kutumbarao
October 31st, 2010 10:58 pm

Mahatma-Gandhi illustration is too Good…

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  November 13th, 2010 10:34 am
  
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Yasmin
November 1st, 2010 6:49 am

Where´s november??

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susanjns
November 2nd, 2010 5:52 am

Thankyou ,very beautiful

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umer
November 7th, 2010 7:01 am

Backgrounds can serve as a source of great inspiration, beautiful and elegant they are, the best he can offer some fresh perspective and creative workflow rather boring, I am sure Most designers have a background image will change addicts. Designers can never be sufficient for the collection of backgrounds, wallpapers, however, change is often to feel fresh and thought, here I have collected 50 wallpapers really wonderful, I hope you enjoy this collection
fasterpony.com/50-designers-really-great-wallpapers/

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geraldo
February 21st, 2011 10:22 am

excellent post very interesting things always publish calendars and web exelente are perfectly happy.

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shaibaz
March 19th, 2011 4:47 am

dude…can i use these wallpapers for commercial use…?
I mean use these images in my website….

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  Smashing Media Customer Support
  March 20th, 2011 3:14 am
  
  The wallpapers are free to use for private as well as commerical projects.
  
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hongkyoung
October 8th, 2011 9:09 am

Thankyou!! ^^

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Velina
October 16th, 2011 8:40 pm

How I wish I could make use of all the designs..they are all fantastically beautiful..

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Vitaly Friedman
September 30th, 2010 2:28 am

Actually, many wallpapers are not related to Halloween at all, especially the ones on the top of the page.

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Goce Mitevski
September 30th, 2010 2:16 am

I love “The Colours of October” by Anna-Lena Lewerenz!

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fatihah
September 30th, 2010 2:11 am

i like any browser & colours of october ~ ;D ..

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Minnix
September 30th, 2010 2:27 am

Thanks for featured my “Any Browser”! Love you, guys! :D

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Ryan
September 30th, 2010 2:15 am

Ah, awesome collection! I’m really confused which to use first. :D
My favorite designs are all of Olivia Bell’s, Sasha Bell’s love in autumn, Kristin G Jackson’s Jump into Fall, Anna-Lena Lewerenz’s The Colours of Octobers, and Violeta Dabija’s Halloween. Keep it up, guys! :)

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Simeon Stoichev
September 30th, 2010 2:07 am

Another great collection of wallpaper calendars. Thanks. And can we have something more abstract for the next time :). Please! :)

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Josh Cousineau
September 30th, 2010 3:36 am

Not going to lie, the last couple months I have been bummer because it seemed the selection was not amazing, but October has come through. Great job this month guys!

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Kuba
September 30th, 2010 4:18 am

Very low level this time d0des :/
I really don’t understand Hibernating 1 and Hibernating 2. There is nothing creative. Just regural photos.

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englishman
September 30th, 2010 4:38 am

Thank you for the great wallpapers. My favourite is Any Browser, though others are good as well. What about urging designers to create wallpapers for netbooks as well? 1024×600 for instance. That would be great.

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Manon Michel
September 30th, 2010 6:28 am

Why is there a full-page Scion ad in the background behind the post when I click the back button? It’s kind of obnoxious. Anyway, nice wallpapers.

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Rick Sloboda
September 30th, 2010 9:06 am

Wow — what an amazingly talented community. Kudos to each of the designers!

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Vignesh
September 30th, 2010 2:20 am

Nice collection! Thanks a lot!!

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gustotech
September 30th, 2010 2:20 am

all are awesome :) my fav : Mahatma-Gandhi

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Juergen
September 30th, 2010 3:46 am

Wow, love the 3d October Calendar wallpaper most. Got to your site via Twitter by accident, but it wasn’t the last time I’ve visited your great site, thanx

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bchild
September 30th, 2010 4:07 am

Any Browser FTW! – If only more people would listen to, and obey, its sentiment.

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Achint Verma
September 30th, 2010 9:49 am

The One with M.K.Gandhi is a masterpiece.

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Mohawk Kellye
September 30th, 2010 9:55 am

Haha… Using the browser one… And I hope every client sees it.

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Shahrouz Farsi
September 30th, 2010 2:38 am

My Favorites For October:

1- As always “Oliva Bell” photographs are astonishing ! (will be my desktop background)
2- Montona Moon – Excellent Job
3- I really liked that Caterpillar Scraper !

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meshweaver
October 1st, 2010 3:48 am

Awesome, I particularly like “Any Browser”. Good job by all the designers.

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Hal9000
October 6th, 2010 4:20 am

Great work everybody.

After Marissa & Liloo backgrounds, the rest isn’t availabe for download in higher resolutions ? I only see the preview.

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Lena
October 8th, 2010 4:21 am

I like “The words I’ve never said to you”, “The Colours of October”, “Turning Leaves”, “10/10″, “Jamp into Fall”, “Childish”, “Above The Clouds”, “This Month Rocks”, “First leave”
I can’t choose a favorite :)

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Aswani
September 30th, 2010 3:45 am

Great collection :) My favorites are
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. purple fall
3. This month rocks
4. The words i’ve never said

Great work by all the designers…

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Nigel
September 30th, 2010 4:11 am

Love Olivia’s Hibernating designs, obviously got a foot fetish this month. Also love Montana Moon and Heavy Equipment = powerful photographs!

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Paula
September 30th, 2010 6:25 am

Hi everyone!!!

I really like every wallpaper so I don’t know which one to use in first place!!!

Anyway, I specially loved ‘The words I’ve never said’ and ‘Love in Autumn’.

Thank you so much!!!

Best regards,

Paula – Colombia

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VonZescao
September 30th, 2010 6:52 am

Only the Pumpkin Spice Spookster wallpaper is available in 1600×900, but that’s not the one I wanted. Oh well.

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Kelly
September 30th, 2010 7:14 am

Nice selection, although I’m curious about the guidelines. I submitted for October and it’s not posted here. Just curious – I spent a lot of time selecting and preparing all the different sizes, etc. I’m not motivated to do all that again…

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Artur
September 30th, 2010 7:15 am

I like most “Childish” – this is a cool message and:
“The words I’ve never said to you” – I like the photo and the possibility to think about never said words

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Robin
September 30th, 2010 8:29 am

All wonderful, as always … but my favorite this month is Violeta Dabija’s Halloween. It’s beautiful and truly “haunting” … with such glowing, jewel-like colors. Lovely and just a little spooky.

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Anna-Lena
September 30th, 2010 8:33 am

I enjoy 10/10 and the sleepy cowgirl!

And thanks for featuring my first contribution, this is really exciting :)

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Firm
September 30th, 2010 8:58 am

I hate to burst anyones bubble, but in the “Don’t Forget to Buy Eggs” wallpaper, someone has their days confused. That being said, its a still a fav

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