Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2011

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We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for almost two years now, and we are very thankful to all designers who have contributed and are still diligently contributing each month.

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 25 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for July 2011. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free. It’s time to freshen up your wallpaper!

Please note that:

  • All images can be clicked on 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?

All Seeing

"An abstract, gold all-seeing eyeball. No real rhyme or reason to it – enjoy!" Designed by Evan Eckard from USA.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Unwritten Stories

"For all the unwritten stories that happened to us this summer." Designed by Ivan Ushmorov from Germany.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

The Kingdom

"Old world atlas." Designed by Jarod Mottley from Trinidad & Tobago.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Summer Feet

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

California

"”Many of us are dreaming of spending the summer in California – who doesn’t?”." Designed by Lotum from Germany.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Freedom Happiness

"July month is seventh month of the year. For this month I have choose the theme of illustration.The basic idea of my theme is Freedom happiness as in this month most of the country celebratestheir Independence Day. So I took that idea and design my wallpaper as Freedom is all equal toeach an d everyone, whether they are human being or other creatures as everyone love freedom.Lots of birds flying high in the blue sky escaping from the cage and enjoying their freedom.So lets celebrates the freedom happiness." Designed by Pooja Jha from India.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

The Colourful Animal

Designed by Dana Gerigk from Germany.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Against The Gravity

"I was inspired by one of the Bible verse: “But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings” (Proverbs 1:17- Douay-Rheims Bible). Spread your wings and fly :)." Designed by Dadsdouter from Indonesia.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Summer Breeze (Updated)

Designed by Design 311 from Belgium.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Color Panels

Designed by Marcus from USA.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Water_lily

"The Water Lily is the birth flower for the month of July." Designed by Edward Ellsworth from USA.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Them Crooked Vultures

"Portrait of the 3 members of the band, made with the lyrics of their songs." Designed by Alexandre Bourgois from France.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Ghost Jump

"Shot this pictures in Hamburg, Germany in the “Old Elbe Tunnel”.Enjoy July!" Designed by Marco Palma from Italy/Germany.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Digital Beauty

Designed by Rewizja.net from Poland.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Summer Night

"The magic of a summer night." Designed by Mandi Coleman from USA.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Be Cool!

"Keep Cool in the Summer." Designed by Nenad S. Lazich from Serbia.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Time For Ice Cream

"Even in Canada, July can get pretty hot. Who doesn’t love a nice cold ice cream cone on a warm summer day?" Designed by Athena Studios from Canada.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Summer (Updated)

"It’s too hot to think of a description… Just spending summertime on the beach." Designed by Ron Gilad from Israel.

Smashing Wallpaper - july 11

July Heat

"a vintage fan for the heat of July!" Designed by Almog Shemesh from Israel.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Knee High By The Fourth Of July

"A common saying around here, farmers in the American midwest use “knee high” as a way to test if their corn is growing normally by the 4th of July. The photograph was taken in Cascade, Iowa in the U.S." Designed by Jared Rogers from USA.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Private Island

Designed by Kayro C from China.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

The Cocoons

"Viktor Mazhlekov’s painting “The cocoons” is one of the famous and favourited by people. It is oil on canvas painting 90×75 cm." Designed by Viktor Mazhlekov from Bulgaria.

Smashing Wallpaper - July 2011

Join In Next Month!

Please note that we respect and carefully consider the ideas and motivation behind each and every artist’s work. This is why we give all artists the full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience throughout their works. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

A big thank you to all designers for their participation. Join in next month!

What’s Your Favourite?

What’s your favorite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comment section below!

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  1. 1

    Some really good ones this month. I like All Seeing, Summer Feet, and Color Panels.

    +15
  2. 3

    A great bunch! The first is my favorite, but they are all excellent. Great job :)

    +5
  3. 4

    My favorite is the old atlas. the others are great too!
    Please let us choose whether the week starts on Sunday in all of them.

    +2
  4. 5

    Maicon Sobczak

    June 30th, 2011 6:24 am

    All are great. The first is outstanding and already is the wallpaper of my desktop.

    +1
  5. 6

    Thank you for great wallpapers! Digital Beauty and Color Panels are my favourites.

    +4
  6. 7

    I love California and Ice Cream for I was in California 2 years ago in the summer and I love purple :)

    +1
  7. 8

    The “Summer” one says June instead of July.

    +3
  8. 10

    be cooooooooool !
    happy summer everybody :)

    0
  9. 11

    the cocoons is super cute!! =)

    +4
  10. 12

    Good to see my own entry in there! I’m really happy right now.

    The other designs are amazing though! Good job all.

    +3
  11. 16

    Summer feet…feet in my desktop like a boss! Nice one :D

    +2
  12. 17

    Carlos Moreira

    June 30th, 2011 7:13 am

    July Heat is the one I’ll be unsing :)

    -1
  13. 19

    So few for 1366*768 resolution(

    +3
    • 20

      Can I suggest you use the 1920×1080 wallpapers? These have the same aspect ratio so it really won’t be much of a difference at all. ;-)

      +5
  14. 21

    Great wallpaper! But there a mistake in Summer Breeze: “2010″

    0
  15. 23

    Be cool is my favourite

    0
  16. 24

    nice wall papers, i got all the 1440×900,

    0
  17. 25

    All the wallpapers are cool! But… in some countries it’s not summer :-(

    +3
  18. 27

    Purushottam Kushwaha

    June 30th, 2011 7:48 am

    Beautiful Collection for this july

    +1
  19. 28

    so early!
    i like ‘knee high’ the best :)

    +1
    • 29

      Thanks Marlaine! It was so last minute, I just took that photo of the corn last Sunday.

      +1
      • 30

        How nice.. I love it :)

        +1
        • 31

          Freedom Happiness and Summer Night are my favorites, although this was a good month all around. I may end up switching my backdrop every few days, just to get a taste of everything.

          0
    • 32

      Freedom Happiness and Summer Night are my favorites, although this was a good month all around. I may end up switching my backdrop every few days, just to get a taste of everything.

      0
  20. 33

    Freedom Happiness and Summer Night are my favorites, although this was a good month all around. I may end up switching my backdrop every few days, just to get a taste of everything.

    0
  21. 34

    A bit disappointing, you have give way better issues. Loved the summer feet though.

    -3
  22. 35

    My picks
    be cool, july heat, it’s time for ice cream and summer feet.
    Grat job!

    +1
  23. 36

    Love Summer Night and Against the Gravity!
    Although.. I’m not quite sure what “The future belongs to those who can fly” means. Anyone have any ideas?

    0
  24. 38

    Bigital beauty

    0
  25. 39

    My favorite is ghost jump – i will follow ;)).

    0
  26. 41

    So disappointed.

    -7
  27. 42

    Akshata Shanbhag

    June 30th, 2011 10:07 am

    Beautiful wallpapers. I especially love Summer Feet.

    +3
  28. 43

    Great wallpapers, much obliged!

    +1
  29. 44

    “This post features 25 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for June 2011.”

    This should be “July” right ?.

    Anyway thanks for great wallpapers !!.

    0
  30. 46

    Thx SM for showing my Wallpaper “Ghost Jump”!

    My fav wallpaper for July is “California”!

    0
  31. 47

    nice selection, thank you!

    +1
  32. 48

    Excellent job! “Summer Night” and “Summer Feet” are my favorite. Thanks a lot!!!

    +1
  33. 49

    Digital Beauty and Summer Night are my two favorites. My only problem with Summer Night is that it reminds that my Disneyland annual pass is blacked out during the summer :’(

    0
  34. 51

    Wow, slim pickins for 2560 options this month…

    0
  35. 52

    Loved the Serenity desktop wallpaper from June, but this month’s not doing it for me (though the “Unwritten Stories” one is kinda cool).

    Not big on text, which kind of gets in the way of desktop icons.

    0
  36. 53

    Almog Shemesh

    June 30th, 2011 1:49 pm

    nice to see my work here (July Heat) thanx Smashing Magazine!

    and WOW so many great wallpapers this month, thumbs up for all the designers here!
    I can’t be specific, i liked them all :)

    +1
  37. 54

    Windows 7 Themepack for this month’s wallpaper is now available to download :P

    0
  38. 55

    Nice, I like them all:)

    0
  39. 56

    Thanks again for the great wallpapers. One of these months you guys will demonstrate that you can actually count. The “25 free wallpapers” is wrong again since there are only 22. Seems like you get the number wrong every month. :)

    0
  40. 57

    Wow these are awesome collections :) My favorite were digital beauty , Be cool! and all seeing :)

    +2
  41. 58

    dear smashing, thanks again for providing instant relief from the “i need inspiration” thought that bubbles up randomly; you are my first click to solve my creativity blocks. is there a way to possibly see these calendar wallpapers in some sort of a full page photo slideshow? i feel like this is art that is meant to be seen in a larger view, and i would really enjoy flipping through the lot of ‘em every month. for me it would definitely make the artists and their works more grand and memorable.

    0
  42. 59

    Julie Knowles

    June 30th, 2011 8:29 pm

    I like Ron Gilad’s, but it says “June 2011″ and not “July 2011″. The calendar is right though… ;-)

    0
  43. 62

    My favorites are Color Panels and Time for Ice Cream :D

    Thank you so much for all beautiful wallpapers!!

    -1
  44. 63

    Love Color Panels and All Seeing! Thanks for the wallpapers! :)

    +2
  45. 65

    There is “Freedom Happiness” i like that so much…
    And the Interested thing is that…. it is design by my office colleague.

    0
  46. 66

    How to choose… how to choose?! My 2 favourites are ‘Digital Beauty’ and ‘Summer Night’. (‘Digital Beauty’ won out as my wallpaper for the month.)

    +1
  47. 67

    omg..everything is sooo good… very hard to pick one…. awesome collections this month…..anyways i wud pick summer feet, freedom happiness,icecream,digital beauty ,against the gravity

    +2
  48. 68

    I love ‘Be Cool’ and ‘Private Island’ :D

    +1
  49. 69

    The Cocoons! ♥

    +2
  50. 70

    Great Work! Love the “Digital Beaty”!

    0
  51. 71

    “Private Island” is on my desktop now :) thanks

    +1
  52. 73

    Vladislavs Judins

    July 1st, 2011 1:49 am

    Long time waiting. It was worth it. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!

    +2
  53. 74

    Sander Swuste

    July 1st, 2011 3:59 am

    After a testrun i choose Digital Beauty over Ghost Jump.

    Keep up the great work,

    0
  54. 75

    Great collectection this month! I can’t choose! I’m loving Summer Breeze, Summer Night and July Heat. Thanks again!

    0
  55. 77

    Nice collection :)
    My favorites are:
    1. The colorful animal
    2. Against the gravity
    3. Summer breeze (updated)
    4. Color panels
    5. Time for ice cream

    0
  56. 79

    It’s time for ice cream! Although I do miss not seeing an entry this month from cheloveche.

    +1
  57. 81

    Viktor Mazhlekov

    July 1st, 2011 7:31 am

    Great collection! Next time I will make better wallpaper! ;)

    +1
  58. 82

    I love all of them, but my favorites are “Against Gravity”,”time for Ice Cream” and “Private Island”
    And I agree with Denise, i miss wallpapers from cheloveche
    Thanks to all…

    +2
  59. 83

    I like the Summer Feet most! :)

    +1
  60. 84

    Request to designers: Please include usable calendars! I appreciate the creativity in differing arrangements of the string of numbers from 1-31, but I still like to know what day of the week goes with what date. (Water_lily, I’m looking at you!) Kudos to Summer Feet and Digital Beauty for showing the calendar how I find it most useful, with Monday as the start of the week.

    +4
  61. 85

    The Kingdom and Summer feet are my favorite this month!!! Good job!

    +1
  62. 86

    Really cool guys!!!!
    This collection flow away the summer heat. Helping me stay cool in summer B-). I like the summer feet, against the gravity and….I think I love them all, lol. Looking forward for next month collection :)
    Thanks a lot.

    +1
  63. 87

    “Be Cool!” in better quality PNG http://www.box.net/shared/9sijsbrxvt1znd4t5xru

    +12
  64. 88

    Great work as always guys.

    Theres quite a few i like this month. digital beauty is my favourite.

    keep up the great work guys.
    Thanks.

    0
  65. 89

    Me encanto “Summer Feet”

    +1
  66. 90

    Wow, i love all of them :XXX… and Summer Night is on my desktop :XXX. Thanks you so much!!!

    0
  67. 91

    Love “The Cocoons”. Thanks!

    +1
  68. 92

    I like All seeing very much and it’s the reason for me to click onto the article. Summer feet had a color palette that make it very attractive

    +2
  69. 93

    Using Summer Night on my desktop, Summer Feet is beautiful too :)

    +1
  70. 94

    Hi,

    thanks for Freedom Happiness and Knee High!

    0
  71. 95

    Zen Designer

    July 2nd, 2011 7:22 pm

    ‘Digital beauty’ is extremely impressive! Love it

    +1
  72. 96

    I like” Time For Ice Cream” best!

    0
  73. 97

    Love Summer Breeze!!! SO many other great ones but Summer Breeze is on my desktop rn :)

    +1
  74. 98

    Emaan Thompson

    July 3rd, 2011 9:02 am

    Loved them all….they were so cool, esp “its time for Ice Cream” is the best one. Have it on my desktop :)

    0
  75. 99

    love the sumer night sky ! awesome insprations

    0
  76. 100

    Great wallpaper

    Like Be cool

    0
  77. 101

    love cats,love “Private Island”!

    +1
  78. 102

    private island,I like!

    0
  79. 103

    Wow, fantastic wallpapers this month. Great job guys!

    +1
  80. 104

    Thanx U so much 4 this post every month The wps are so cool and very original special mention to Kayro C from China. really funny WP

    +2
  81. 105

    Wonderful Wallpapers! Loved them all!

    0
  82. 106

    Sendrakhi Smith

    July 4th, 2011 8:17 pm

    All the wallpapers design is very cheerful and attractive in look. But among these all design, i really like starting wallpaper, i appreciate too it.
    naturalacai.org/

    0
  83. 107

    Against The Gravity is brilliant! Love it!!! %)

    +1
  84. 108

    Well sometimes choosing one or two out of a list like this means somehow “forgetting” about the rest. And that is not fair.
    I mean, each of these is nice. One by one. Congrats to all, and thanks for sharing.

    0
  85. 109

    the wallpapers are really great ,thank you

    0
  86. 110

    i love the colors, they are smashing

    0
  87. 111

    i wish to comunicate with the artists

    0
  88. 112

    i wish to communicate with the artists

    0
  89. 113

    No fireworks wallpapers? I am in shock!

    0
  90. 114

    Seriously, this is the best month so far.

    I am absolutely stumped which one to use first.

    Loving:

    DIGITAL BEAUTY, Rewizja.net
    TIME FOR ICECREAM, Athena Studios
    Lotum’s new one and so much more.

    Thanks all.

    0
  91. 115

    Love Be Cool!. Thanks for sharing :)

    +1
  92. 116

    SUMMER feet and night! Love them!

    +1
  93. 117

    Amei o Digital Beauty, muito lindo mesmo! :D

    0
  94. 118

    María Cristina Alvite

    July 6th, 2011 4:53 pm

    Private Island is just fantastic!

    +1
  95. 119

    Vinayak Phal

    July 6th, 2011 8:20 pm

    Digital Beauty…

    +1
  96. 120

    Kashif M Qasim

    July 6th, 2011 9:21 pm

    Well done all designers, this month’s quality is great. My favourite is a tie between Digital Beauty and Color Panels.

    0
  97. 121

    hey, what happened to submissions from Daily Overview? Was looking forward to something as wonderful as last month’s Serenity

    +2
  98. 122

    Save the best for last: The cocoons is my fave!

    +1
  99. 123

    Daily Overview, Isis

    July 7th, 2011 3:58 pm

    Hi Jonah :) great apologies. we didn’t make any submissions for July. However, we’ll be back in August… that is, if our wallpaper gets selected. Do drop us an email on our website so that we can keep you updated on our latest icons and free vectors :) Have a great month ahead, Jonah, and thanks to everyone who voted for ‘Serenity’ last month.

    0
  100. 124

    Daily Overview, Isis

    July 7th, 2011 4:07 pm

    am voting for Private Island, by the way. very cute ;)

    0

  1. 1

    Some really good ones this month. I like All Seeing, Summer Feet, and Color Panels.

    +15
  2. 2

    “Be Cool!” in better quality PNG http://www.box.net/shared/9sijsbrxvt1znd4t5xru

    +12
  3. 3

    A great bunch! The first is my favorite, but they are all excellent. Great job :)

    +5
  4. 4

    Miles Harrison

    July 1st, 2011 11:57 am

    Summer Feet is my fav. ThnX

    +5
  5. 5

    Can I suggest you use the 1920×1080 wallpapers? These have the same aspect ratio so it really won’t be much of a difference at all. ;-)

    +5
  6. 6

    Request to designers: Please include usable calendars! I appreciate the creativity in differing arrangements of the string of numbers from 1-31, but I still like to know what day of the week goes with what date. (Water_lily, I’m looking at you!) Kudos to Summer Feet and Digital Beauty for showing the calendar how I find it most useful, with Monday as the start of the week.

    +4
  7. 7

    Thank you for great wallpapers! Digital Beauty and Color Panels are my favourites.

    +4
  8. 8

    the cocoons is super cute!! =)

    +4
  9. 9

    The “Summer” one says June instead of July.

    +3
  10. 10

    Good to see my own entry in there! I’m really happy right now.

    The other designs are amazing though! Good job all.

    +3
  11. 11

    So few for 1366*768 resolution(

    +3
  12. 12

    All the wallpapers are cool! But… in some countries it’s not summer :-(

    +3
  13. 13

    Akshata Shanbhag

    June 30th, 2011 10:07 am

    Beautiful wallpapers. I especially love Summer Feet.

    +3
  14. 14

    Thanx U so much 4 this post every month The wps are so cool and very original special mention to Kayro C from China. really funny WP

    +2
  15. 15

    I love all of them, but my favorites are “Against Gravity”,”time for Ice Cream” and “Private Island”
    And I agree with Denise, i miss wallpapers from cheloveche
    Thanks to all…

    +2
  16. 16

    Vladislavs Judins

    July 1st, 2011 1:49 am

    Long time waiting. It was worth it. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!

    +2
  17. 17

    I like All seeing very much and it’s the reason for me to click onto the article. Summer feet had a color palette that make it very attractive

    +2
  18. 18

    hey, what happened to submissions from Daily Overview? Was looking forward to something as wonderful as last month’s Serenity

    +2
  19. 19

    Unwritten Stories is the best 1.. for this month..

    +2
  20. 20

    Thanks Julie. I fixed the wallpapers, so you can download the updated version.

    +2
  21. 21

    omg..everything is sooo good… very hard to pick one…. awesome collections this month…..anyways i wud pick summer feet, freedom happiness,icecream,digital beauty ,against the gravity

    +2
  22. 22

    The Cocoons! ♥

    +2
  23. 23

    My favorite is the old atlas. the others are great too!
    Please let us choose whether the week starts on Sunday in all of them.

    +2
  24. 24

    Summer feet…feet in my desktop like a boss! Nice one :D

    +2
  25. 25

    Iris Ljesnjanin

    June 30th, 2011 7:27 am

    Thanks for the note, Carou… We’ll be updating that one soon — stay tuned! ;)

    +2
  26. 26

    Oops! Major mistake! I’ll update them and resend it ASAP!

    +2
  27. 27

    I hear ya, but it’s a nice change seeing a warm summery image during winter :)

    +2
  28. 28

    Thanks for noticing! I’ve just sent the updated files, hope they’ll be published soon.

    +2
  29. 29

    Wow these are awesome collections :) My favorite were digital beauty , Be cool! and all seeing :)

    +2
  30. 30

    Love Color Panels and All Seeing! Thanks for the wallpapers! :)

    +2

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