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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: January 2010

Desk­top wall­pa­pers can serve as an excel­lent source of inspi­ra­tion. How­ever, if you use some spe­cific wall­pa­per for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspi­ra­tion out of it. That’s why we have decided to sup­ply you with smash­ing wall­pa­pers over 12 months. And to make them a lit­tle bit more dis­tinc­tive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to embed cal­en­dars for the upcom­ing month. So if you need to look up some date, isn’t it bet­ter to show off a nice wall­pa­per with a nice cal­en­dar instead of launch­ing some default time application?

This post fea­tures 35 free desk­top wall­pa­pers, cre­ated by design­ers across the globe. Both ver­sions with a cal­en­dar and with­out a cal­en­dar can be down­loaded for free.

Please notice:

• all images can be clicked and lead to the pre­view of the wallpaper;
• you can fea­ture your work in our mag­a­zine by tak­ing part in our desk­top wall­pa­per cal­en­dar series. We are reg­u­larly look­ing for cre­ative design­ers and artists to be fea­tured on Smash­ing Mag­a­zine. Are you one of them?

So what wall­pa­pers have we received for Jan­u­ary 2010?

New Year Inspiration

“Essen­tial tools for the new year! Have a great year!” Designed by Phidev Inc. from USA.

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• with­out cal­en­dar: 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1920×1200, 1920×1440

A Fresh Beginning

“One bleak morn­ing, a girl sits on a dead tree. She feels sad but tried to put a smile on her lips. Sud­denly three glit­ter­ing but­ter­flies went out from the branches and the world begins anew. The girl whis­pered, to the earth, ìthank you for a fresh begin­ning.î At that moment the sun begins to shine on the east.” Designed by April Joy E. Jas­min from Philippines.

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Paper flower

“Col­or­ful design made in illus­tra­tor and retouched in pho­to­shop.” Designed by Guillermo Man­tilla from Mexico.

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New Begin­nings

“A new year means, well….new? So that’s why I wanted to try some­thing new. I have always loved the vec­tor art I find all the inter­net and finally decided its about time to prove to myself that I can do that too. This piece is all about feel­ing, sub­con­scious and con­scious. I can’t believe how the slight­est change in the curves or col­ors affected my sense of flow and for that rea­son I spent an unbe­liev­able amount of time per­fect­ing the flow of the piece ever so metic­u­lously. Here’s to going from an old 2009 (red) to a fresh 2010 (blue).” Designed by Saidur Hos­sain from USA.

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2010 in Style

“2010 Cel­e­bra­tion with lots of friends. I hope you all have a won­der­ful 2010!” Designed by Sasha Bell from Eng­land, UK.

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It’s Snow

“Jan­u­ary is a month of long nights, child­hood sto­ries, hot tea, cozy fire­places and cook­ies with milk. I’d like to share this spirit in my image.” Designed by Inna Ogando from Portugal.

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Col­or­full

“Hap­pi­ness and col­ors.” Designed by FranÁois Lep­roust aka MrRayures from France.

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Towards Growth

“This is a hope for bet­ter year 2010.” Designed by FahadQue from Pakistan.

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2010

Designed by Sven John­son at Mod­ern Post­card from USA.

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Mul­ti­lin­gual Typo­graphic Calendar

“The let­ters say “Happy New Year” in sev­eral lan­guages. More­over, I wanted to send out a mes­sage to all nations about the sev­eral uni­ver­sal prob­lems which need to be addressed effec­tively in order to make this world a per­fect place to live in.” Designed by Abdus Salam from Pakistan.

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Seeds

“Exper­i­men­tal piece meant to show growth and rea­son to flour­ish.” Designed by Umer Tahir from Canada.

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Friendly

“Lately I’ve been cap­ti­vated by this very naive style of draw­ing; very cartoon-​​like. Although, it may be because that’s the limit of my draw­ing abil­ity. But I’m proud of it, any­way! Inspired by car­toons and beau­ti­ful, bright colours.” Designed by Eli Bur­ford from Australia.

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Cool bulb’s

“We wish you a lot of cool ideas in 2010. 3D Mod­el­ing ren­dered with Cin­ema 4D.” Designed by Han­sjo­erg Schnei­der from Switzerland.

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Scary­Jan­u­ary

Designed by Marta Miazek from Poland.

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Ice Flow­ers

“I took some pho­tos dur­ing a very frosty and cold week before Christmas.And with one of those decided to make a Jan­u­ary wall­pa­per ” Designed by Anca Varsan­dan from Romania.

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Sacred Island

“Inspired by an avatar movie, float­ing island and dragon, happy new year every­one” Designed by Auliya Rah­man from Indonesia.

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Wish You Were Here

“Pic­tur­ing where I would rather be than in front of my com­puter.” Designed by Valerie Mor­gan from USA.

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New Year Bal­loon Festival

“The tra­di­tional bal­loon fes­ti­val brings in the new year!” Designed by Chris Alexan­der (Yipori) from England.

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Party Ani­mals

“The wall­pa­per is like water­color paint effect of for­est with ani­mals along with Jan­u­ary 2010 cal­en­dar. The wall­pa­per cal­en­dar depicts party ani­mals wish­ing viewer on new year.” Designed by Jayan­thi from India.

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Sexy new year

“I wish you a Sexy New Year!” Designed by Nick Voronin from Ukraine.

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New Year Party

“Wow, I’ve finally made it! It’s new year, and I want to cel­e­brate it with my Illus­tra­tion. So, happy new year guys!” Designed by Adrian Wildandyawan from Indonesia.

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Lifestyle Adjust­ment

“I designed this wall­pa­per for inspi­ra­tion and encour­age­ment for one of the best years of life ever.” Designed by Mil­li­cent Bow­man from USA.

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Inspire

Designed by Valentin Bozhilov.

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Online Snow­ball Fight

“It’s win­ter­time here at thunder::tech, and we’re gear­ing up for a snow­ball fight! You’ve been in snow­ball fights before, but never like this—you can throw snow­balls at your friends but you’ll never touch a flake of snow or go out­side in the freez­ing cold! Enjoy this lit­tle piece of won­der­land, com­plete with winter-​​themed ani­mals and abom­inable snow­men!” Designed by tech from USA.

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• with cal­en­dar: 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
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Create/​Destroy

Designed by Valerie Mor­gan from USA.

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Snow­board Sea­son 2010

Designed by Davide Vic­ar­i­otto from Italy.

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Snow in January

“A snow that will not fall in my city gave me an inspi­ra­tion for mak­ing this wall­pa­per” Designed by Kle­ment Grgić from Croatia.

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Dutch Win­ter

Designed by Pietje Pre­cies from The Netherlands.

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A deer with a bird

“Illus­trated desk­top shows an idilic win­ter scene. A deer and a bird are telling us a story about frend­ship in unpleasent cir­cum­stances. It is a poetic mes­sage, that makes your desk­top nicer and offers you an inspi­ra­tion.” Designed by Tina Krašovec from Slovenia.

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Extreme Win­ter

Designed by Julio Ortiz Gon­za­lez from Spain.

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Jan­u­ary Sentense

“Just moti­vat­ing sen­tence for Decem­ber ” Designed by Temeshi from Poland.

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Happy new year!

“New year wall­pa­per theme” Designed by Umut Isbilir from Turkey.

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Egg

“Just an egg to rep­re­sent the new begin­ning this new year.” Designed by Dsaurus from Philippines.

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Join in next month!

Please notice that we respect the ideas and moti­va­tion behind artists’ work which is why we’ve given artists full free­dom to explore their cre­ativ­ity and express emo­tions and expe­ri­ence through their works. And this is also why the themes of the wall­pa­pers weren’t any­how influ­enced by us, but designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

Thanks to all design­ers for par­tic­i­pa­tion. Join in next month!

What’s your favorite?

What’s your favourite theme or wall­pa­per for this month? Please let us know in the com­ments! And have a smash­ing Jan­u­ary and New Year, folks!

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