Interface. If you have to stare at something for 8 or more hours a day, why not make it something interesting? Sure there are tons of places to find wallpaper on the web … but a lot of them are hard to navigate and highly disorganized. Divided into five helpful categories, with introductory descriptions and sample screenshots, here are over twenty of the best collections, communities and other resources on the web for finding excellent desktop wallpaper.
User-Submitted Wallpaper Communities: InterFaceLift has a really useful system for cross-tagging wallpapers by size, category and type. You can browse their selection by most viewed, highest rated, date posted as well as by monitor size and aspect ratio as well as double and even triple-monitor. SocWall is another community dedicated specifically to “social wallpapering” – users sharing wallpaper by category and voting on one another’s submissions. Flickr has almost 25,000 wallpaper uploads by Flickr users. Mixed Wallpaper Collections and Designs: Desktop wallpaper | Social Wallpapering. CSS gallery CSS TEA - 12 Free Online Background Pattern Generators. Saturday, 17 January 2009 08:18 Background patterns play an important role in the design process. You can make Your work easier with online background pattern tools.
Keep in mind that their capacity is not like that of graphic programs however, if You need striped, dotted or tiled backgrounds they are really useful and faster than others. I have listed all online free background pattern generators which I use when I want to create striped, tiled, tartan or dotted backgrounds. Easily make striped background images and save them to use as your iPhone or Computer's background image.
Generate seamless tartan patterns! Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Generate seamless striped background images! A Web2.0 tool to generate a dotted background tile. Exposif: Artist Designed Wallpapers & Wallscapes From Maxalot. Above: Detail from Kozydan's wallpaper for Maxalot Exposif is a collection of wallpapers, developed by Maxalot in collaboration with leading names in graphic design, photography and illustration. Functioning both as art and decoration, Exposif celebrates the re-emerging importance of wallpaper as a way to customize space. Their designs vary greatly in style and color and are created by such artists as Kozydan, Mari Inukai, Edwin Ushiro, Timorous Beasties, Pixel Nouveau, We Work For Them, Chisato Shinya and tons more.
All wallpapers and wallscapes are available for purchase in limited editions. Below are a few examples of their various wallpapers/wallscapes shown as the art and then in application: Birgit Amadori: Edwin Ushiro: IdealWord: Kustaa Saksi: MTAF (more Than A Friend): Julie West: Destroy Rockcity: Eno Henze: Chisato Shinya: Inocuo Design: Erotic Dragon: Joshua Davis: eboy: Kozydan: Timorous Beasties: Peter Zuiderwijk: Pixel Nouveau: Ten & Don: Details: Andrea Offerman: Marcos Chin: Mari Inukai: 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures | Monday Inspiration. You know, we use ad-blockers as well. We gotta keep those servers running though. Did you know that we publish useful books and run friendly conferences — crafted for pros like yourself? E.g. our upcoming SmashingConf Barcelona, dedicated to smart front-end techniques and design patterns. Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers.
Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link This post covers 35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. Please notice: Fantastic HDR Pictures Link Many companies try to create a great experience for customers.
Sources and Further Resources Link. (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers | Graphics. More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers | Graphics. Advertisement Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts and wallpapers and present them to you, so you don’t need to search for them.
As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in our posts. And now it’s time for some sweet wallpapers designer’s toolbox. In this post we present more (really) stunning desktop wallpapers related to typography, photography, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related wallpapers. You can also scan through the following posts: Don’t forget: until 21th of May you can participate in Smashing Texture Contest4, take a photo, send it to us and win a professional digital camera. Wallpapers The Minimalistic Sky6Available in resolutions 1680×1050px, 1440×900px and 1280×800px. Apple & Co. Apple, think different15 Mac Os Blue17. Desktopography 2008 exhibition released! - Nature's design on your desktop. Desktop Wallpaper Project. It’s Wednesday again, which means a new wallpaper. This week’s desktop comes from the master of self-portraits and multi-colored gems, Dustin Hostetler, also known as UPSO.
Dustin is one of the busiest guys out there right now running artsy magazine Faesthetic, a studio called Sans Nom with his wife Jemma, and working as the brainchild behind Threadless’ Select line of t-shirts, not to mention random art projects here and there. His design above was one of my favorites, I mean, who doesn’t love crazy colored gems falling from the sky? And let me tell you, it looks so effing rad on the iPhone, all of the bright colors on the black background is amazing. UPSO also has a show starting this Friday at Wootini in Carrboro, North Carolina, just outside of Chapel Hill. The show is titled ‘I Will Miss You When I’m Gone’, and simply enough features the things he’ll miss when he dies, such as his wife, his pocketknife, the finches on his bird feeder and so on.