Arcane Palette Creative Design » artistic graphic design

We just got back from a camping trip where we spent several days in a tent, surrounded by redwood trees. It’s easy to forget there’s a world outside our computer monitor sometimes, a world with only the noise of water dripping onto leaves and gentle breezes, a world that isn’t divided into pixels and margins. It’s important, sometimes, to take a step away from the blue haze of our monitors and step into the real world just to keep our own sanity.

Last month’s wallpaper(s) seemed to be a hit, so I decided to do another one in the same vein.  The zip file includes high quality widescreen, standard screen, iPhone and iPad wallpapers in the following resolutions:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900
1280×800

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1152×864

iPad
768×1024

iPhone
320×480

Download Meditation 7.12MB
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I’ve been playing with various photographic effects and grunging them up for the new jazzsequence.com design, particularly the headers and post thumbnails.  So, it was with those techniques at my fingertips and on my mind that I approached these two wood textures from an upcoming texture pack to create this month’s wallpaper.  And since we were having so much fun, we created two wallpapers this month.

Each wallpaper comes in calendar, non-calendar, Twitter, iPad and iPhone variations in the following sizes:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1680×1050
1440×900

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1152×864

iPad
768×1024

iPhone
320×480

Twitter
1920×1200 (optimized to <800k)

Download August Deadwood 23.84MB
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I’ve been wanting to play with a steampunk-themed design for a while. So, I made that the goal of this month’s design. I started out with some watch pieces and I added in some grunge textures and played with the color palette. I really like the way the end result looks like rust, and has a real gritty quality to it.  This particular design started out just experimenting with some objects and textures with no particular end goal in mind.  My original plan was to do a WordPress theme or a Blogger theme, and I may still do both, or I may do something similar but new.

This wallpaper comes in all the usual sizes, with and without calendar.  We also included a Twitter background.

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900
1280×800

Standard
1600×1200
1024×768

iPhone
320×480

Twitter
1920×1200

Download Clockwork Decay 226545.7 GB
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