Merry Christmas everybody! After a short delay due to a holiday, the December wallpaper is now live. The wallpaper is based on a present, complete with wrapping paper, ribbon and tag.

The tiling pattern is actually based on the Koch Snowflake. It’s mathematical basis allows it to be tiled in a number of ways, which can be seen on this Wolfram Alpha page.

I’m really excited with the possibilities 2010 brings, so expect more wallpapers, blogs and other goodies still in the pipeline.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate all the comments and tweets and wish you all a Merry Christmas.

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I hope you like the wallpaper. If you have any feedback or messages, please do leave a comment below.

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After a brief, one month absence the monthly wallpaper is back!

The November 2009 wallpaper is very minimalist, based on a simplistic pixel grid, inspired by the recently launched cleartypemedia.com. The font is the fantastic Vegur (Extra Light) Don’t worry if this isn’t your cup of tea—expect a festive theme for December!.

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I hope you like the wallpaper. If you have any feedback or messages, please do leave a comment below.

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For September, I was inspired by the work of Andy Gilmore and created this months wallpaper around the geometric styling of his work.

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For the colour scheme, I was looking for a wide spectrum of colours, but was initially looking for neon-like colours for a modern touch – but the cover of my Blade Runner DVD caught my eye, and so I sampled the yellows, blues, reds and oranges from that. Whilst overlaying black horizontal and vertical stripes it created a darker spectrum of colours, so I used brighter colours for the dates.

The work of Andy Gilmore

The font I chose is called Neighbourhood by Andy Chung.

I am very proud that Smashing Magazine chose my design again this month – see their extensive September 2009 wallpapers. As an exclusive for this site, I have created an iPhone specific wallpaper with no calendar:

The wallpaper dimensions in this months zip file are:

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Enjoy!

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My third wallpaper-of-the-month, and this time it has a Twitter theme. I have decided not to add a calendar to it (but if you object, please let me know, but it at least allows you to have the wallpaper for more than one month of the year)

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In this design, I have used the classic Twitter colours of light blue and orange, whilst creating some simple cloud shapes, and the fonts are Caslon Pro for the main quote, and Chaparral Pro for the citation.

The wallpaper has a feint tiled brid graphic, and a little lens flare just behind the quote to add some focus.

I’ve just noticed this is another blue/orange combo, so I can assure you next month will be completely different!

The wallpaper dimensions in this months zip file are:

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This is my second monthly wallpaper, and this time it has been based around a Julius Caesar quote. After all, July was named after the Roman leader

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This design uses the truly amazing Nevis font by Ed Merritt.

The quote I thought was quite apt; a fact I try to follow.

This wallpaper is a lighter colour than June, with a nice blue tone with bright orange accent colour (again!). I have also added a subtle grunge effect to give the wallpaper some texture.

I’ve again created the wallpaper in a number of sizes. Since purchasing my iPhone I think the next wallpaper will have an iPhone version available too. If you have any other formats you would like to see, please leave a comment and I will make sure to do so.

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After getting inspiration from the Smashing Magazine Wallpapers, I decided to create my own.

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This is primarily typography based, with the main being Bebas. I had originally wanted to use this font in a website with sIFR replacement but I found the spaces imbetween the words were too small.

I still liked the font however, and decided to use it as the basis for this wallpaper.

The wallpaper is based on a solid grid foundation, with a monochromatic design with orange highlights.

The wood effect is free from sxc.hu called Old Wood

The design was primarily for my work/home machine, but I created a few different sizes just incase anyone wanted to use it as their monthly wallpaper. The sizes are:

• 1024 x 768
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Download june-2009.zip