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Free Calendar Wallpaper: Meditation

chris — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:38:38 +0000

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

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Free Calendar Wallpaper: August Deadwood

chris — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:09:33 +0000

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)

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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Gilmel – The Lost Empire

chris — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:35 +0000

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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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Forecast

chris — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:49:25 +0000

Okay I admit it. I have been reading too many steampunk novels recently because this is what spilled out of my subconcious when I sat down to create a new wallpaper. Clockwork, ancient tomes filled with long lost technology, a mixture of organic and cybernetic. What will society look like when we’re all dust? What will be “new technology” when artifacts like the telephone and the laptop are preserved in ancient history museums, when our civilization is thousands of years gone?

Included in the zip file are wallpapers in widescreen and fullscreen format, as well as iPhone and iPad counterparts. We’ve also added a Twitter background. The following resolutions are included:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

Fullscreen
1600×1200
1200×800

iPad
768×1024

iPhone
320×480

Twitter
1920×1200

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Free Calendar Wallpaper: Captain’s Log…

chris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:26:00 +0000

Okay, so this month’s wallpaper has a bit more of a story. Or, at least, it’s meant to imply that it has more of a story.

I wanted to do something spacey/sci-fi because it’s something we haven’t really done. I started thinking about what a captain’s journal might look like if it wasn’t explicitly limited to just handwritten text. What if it was sort of like a cross between a journal and an iPad (or, as Steven Fry noted, the closest thing, thus far, to a real, live Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). What I had in mind was something that was both futuristic and retro, and with that in mind, I designed Captain’s Log…

This is the first time, also, that we’ve included a wallpaper for an iPad/tablet (of course, it was never really an issue before since they previously didn’t exist). Time will tell if this becomes a regular inclusion but, given the booklike nature of the design, we included two different iPad wallpapers and two different iPhone wallpapers (as well as calendar and non-calendar versions of each). Captain’s Log is available in the following resolutions:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900
1280×800

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

Mobile
320×480 (iPhone)
768×1024 (iPad)

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Free Wallpaper: lil somethin

chris — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:03:02 +0000

This background combines two things I love: watercolor and paisley blooms spread across a subtly textured paper as if to signal the arrival of Spring in all her glory, daffodils, tulips, songbirds and sunshine spreading from her fingers. I wanted to use watercolor because it is so fun to look at, with bright colors and whole ranges of different fascinating textures. It especially feels right to me in the spring and summer months, with it’s carefree and vivid airiness. Paisley designs celebrate spring and growth too. Paisley began in India and Persia and is a representation of a mango fruit, a decadent growing treat that is much anticipated. It’s a design that is always recognizeable but can be altered and adorned in infinite different ways, but is always intriguing with details and curves. This background is my ode to spring. Please come and brush the cobwebs from the sky with me!

lil somethin is available with and without calendar, in all the standard resolutions, including iPhone.

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

iPhone
320×400

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Free Calendar Wallpaper for March: Afternoon Dream

chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:17:32 +0000

This month’s calendar wallpaper (and non-calendar companion) has a mysterious, vintage feel. Dark shapes and strange symbols and half-forgotten memories drift across the periphery of your awareness and you’re not sure if those strangely familiar shapes are ominous or welcoming.

This wallpaper comes in all the usual sizes, with and without calendar, as well as an iPhone version.

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960

iPhone
320×480

download Afternoon Dream 41999.1 GB
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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Clockwork Decay

chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:21:04 +0000

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 226546.3 GB
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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Hot Mess

chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:30:21 +0000

This wallpaper is what happened when I set out to do something with our holiday lights texture photos. It’s colorful and fun and you can look at it many different ways, since there’s lots going on. I’ve been catching myself staring at it on my monitor many times, dreaming of a connect four game that is as attractive and chaotic as this looks.

Hot Mess is available in widescreen, standard, and iPhone formats in the following sizes:

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

iPhone
320×480

We also included a version for your Twitter account!

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Free Desktop Wallpaper: Dark Clouds

chris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:00:34 +0000

We’re starting the new year off with a brand new calendar wallpaper. This time we went all out and made one for those of you sporting dual monitor setups. This design started with an idea I started playing with a couple months ago for a blog background. It didn’t work for that, but I came back to the idea when I wanted to change my logon screen background. After that, I wanted to experiment with turning it into a wallpaper that spanned my dual monitors. The only real driving design idea was to keep it dark so it doesn’t light the entire room at night with the lights out, which is often my goal when designing wallpapers.

If you’re using the dual monitor version, the left contains the January calendar. There isn’t a dual monitor option without a calendar, sorry. All other sizes have a calendar and no calendar option, including the iPhone version. Dark Clouds comes in the following sizes:

Standard
1600×1200
1280×960
1024×768

Widescreen
1920×1200
1440×900

iPhone
320×480

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