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The ancient city of Gilmel, bordered on three sides by the great river Nazarel, was lost in the battle of Harper’s Point.  Gilmel — once the thriving cradle of civilization — was fortified on all sides by walls 30 feet high and twice as thick.  Even that, however, could not stop the Samsen army from laying waste to the city.  The siege lasted 3 weeks, and when the walls came tumbling down,  the great stone gargoyles smashed and shattered in the streets, most of the civilians fled up-river to the nearby city of Oreh…

The concept behind this month’s wallpaper was a mythical city, ancient, rich with culture and art, remembered in its architecture and ruins.  Anyone who’s been to Europe can appreciate the reverence you feel when looking at the remains of a former city, imagining what the city might have looked like hundreds, if not thousands of years ago, what the people and the culture was like.  That feeling of reverence is what we were going for when we designed this wallpaper.

This month, we have calendar and non-calendar versions as well as a Twitter background in the following resolutions:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1680×1050
1440×900

Fullscreen
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

Twitter
1920×1200

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a while ago we stumbled upon an archive of all these amazing, really old illustrations of monsters and mythical beasts.  the hand-drawn illustrations are incredibly expressive and interesting, so i took a couple, and used them as inspiration for this wallpaper.  i also thought that that handmade quality makes the illustrations adapt particularly well to the grunge/distressed look that’s really popular and that i really dig.  this wallpaper uses fonts by Douglas Vitkauskas, aka VTKS Design, who does really amazing work and we’re huge fans and use his fonts all the time.  All of his fonts can be found at dafont.com and fontspace.com.

this time around, i also did a variation with a calendar.  i really enjoy the whole calendar desktop wallpaper thing; i like how it necessitates changing things around every month to keep your visual style fresh and interesting, and i like the usefulness of just being able to look at the desktop to know what the date is.

both the calendar and non-calendar versions are available in widescreen and 4:3 formats in the following sizes:

1920 x 1200
1680 x 1050
1600 x 1200
1024 x 768 

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