Arcane Palette Creative Design » artistic graphic design

this month’s calendar wallpaper goes back to our geeky roots.  (well, for some of us, anyway.)  it’s inspired by geeks on film in movies like hackers, the matrix, johnny mnemonic, and war games.  if your more comfortable with a blinking cursor than a graphical interface, this wallpaper goes out to you.

as always, we have widescreen and standard versions available and this time we included a variant for your iphone as well.  the zip file contains calendar and non-calendar versions in the following sizes:

widescreen
1920 x 1200
1440 x 900

standard
1600 x 1200
1280 x 960
1024 x 768

iphone (calendar-only)
320 x 480

download terminal now 2.2 MB
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This wallpaper started out as an idea to just do a big, typographic design.  I was planning on just slapping some big LOREM IPSUMs in a really wide, blocky font and doing something cool with textures.  As I got into it, it seemed silly to have a calendar wallpaper that just said Lorem Ipsum, so I made the big, blocky text say September.  I had the idea that I wanted to fill at least part of the screen with some text, and “lorem ipsum” would have worked for that, but then that seemed silly if I was using a big September.  So, after some Googling, I learned about Eternal September, or the September that Never Ended.  I won’t recap the story behind Eternal September, you can read about it on Wikipedia, but I pulled the text from the jargon file and used that for the text on the wallpaper.

This wallpaper is available for widescreen and standard resolutions in the following sizes:

standard
1600 x 1200
1024 x 768

widescreen
1920 x 1200
1440 x 900

download eternal september 1.9 MB
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This pack contains 7 unique, free templates for Blogger.  Each template is customized with striking colors and widget-ready.  You can download the backgrounds separately, or download the whole pack, with the backgrounds included as separate files.  No coding is necessary for the templates, just upload them to your blog in Layout -> Edit HTML to start using them.  Pack includes:

download Blogger template pack 2.3 MB
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or you can download each background individually.  to download, right-click the link and choose Save As…
All background images are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

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