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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So I decided to create a ‘Kitchen Sink’ of markup and basic styling, using some content from the great HTML-Ipsum.com plus a few extra bits.

If you don’t currently use something like this already, I do urge to add it to your next new website, because even if you don’t include a table, or list at the moment, you (or your client via WYSIWYG) may do in the future.

The document is actually HTML5 and UTF-8, but you can copy and paste the HTML/CSS however you like. I also tend to add a reset style inside a global stylesheet to save downloading two documents. I’d love hear how you layout or comment your CSS and whether you split them into different files such as layout and typography too.

Open kitchensink.htm

Note: If you have any additional code or CSS which you think should go into the document, add a comment below. Thanks.

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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Over the weekend, when we had some really nice weather, I was walking along with my camera and just stopped to take some quick images of the sky and clouds. I have selected the six best images, and zipped them up, for you to download and use as you like.

The images are 3072 x 2304px in size, and around 1.7mb each.

I have released these images under a Creative Commons license. This is the first time I have used one of these, and basically it allows you to use the images as you like, as long as you don’t try and sell the images on.

If you do use an image in a piece of your work, I would love to hear from you. Feel free to email me via paul (-at-) prandall.com

Note: The link has changed to a secure Mediafire one for bandwidth reasons