Wallpaper of the Week – Prometheus
About the only thing I’m more excited about than the release of Prometheus in cinemas is the fact that they’re seriously looking at a Blade Runner sequel and have most of the old team on board. Anyway – here’s a terrific wallpaper which was produced by the guys over at the Prometheus website. I’m not a huge fan of the text blocks top and bottom, but they’re pretty easy to snip away.
2048px – An iPad 3 Retina Wallpaper Site
As you may have heard, the iPad 3 has a much higher resolution screen than previous versions which means that all the existing wallpapers out there look a bit pixelated on that amazing screen. 2048px is a site devoted to high resolution Retina wallpapers for iPad 3s. It sports a cool Pinterest style interface and has some great walls in the archives.
Read MoreMinimalist Wallpapers – Spring Collection
It’s been a wee while since we did a nice round-up of minimalist wallpapers and so, in order to save you all from the pain of clicking endlessly through the main online wallpaper archives, I’ve done it for you. The signal to noise ratio in ‘minimalist’ walls is higher than ever, some people clearly believe the word is Greek for ‘Acid and Neon Nightmare’. Anywhere, here we go.
Hearty – by Tito – Download
Grungy 2 – by Alexander GG – Download
Blur – by murasaki55 – Download
Vintage – by ApproxArt – Download
The Final Frontier – by PhilippIllgen – Download
Christmas – by JK99 – Download
Orange in Aqua – by Tiberium - Download
Crossing the Gap – by GJvdH – Download
Amazing Mily Way – by Jonathan Besler – Download
Stillness in the Storm – by Ben Gustafson – Download
Windows 8 Metro Wallpaper Pack – Minimalist Desktop Decoration
The Windows 8 Metro Wallpaper Pack by Phorick is a great suite of simple wallpapers. Yes, they’ve been designed with Windows users in mind, but they will of course look equally at home on a Mac or Linux machine.
Read MoreFive Star Wall – Week 2 – March 2012
This week’s wallpaper is the awesome Brazomar Beach by M.Mendo. If, while staring at this wallpaper instead of working you’d like to better visualise the location, the beach in question is located here. And you can get the wallpaper, here.
12 Awesome Mountain Wallpapers
Ah, mountain scenery, the views, the peaks, the snow-capped ridges – you can almost smell that cool fresh air. We’d like to celebrate mountains with a round-up of some of the better wallpapers out there. We’ve poured over Wallbase, tip-toed through InterfaceLift and managed to filter out the anime bollocks that infects every single category at DeviantArt to bring you the finest mountain wallpapers around. Enjoy.
Mt. Santa Chocobot 2.0 – Download
Five Star Wall – Week 2 – February 2012
Fresh and classy wallpaper for you this week, chosen in particular for those of you in the northern hemisphere who are in the depths of winter. Morning Wallpaper is by Majk M. Miklavc from a photo by John Nyberg. You can get it, here.
Five Star Wall – Week 1 – January 2012
As someone who moved hemispheres and thus saw a reversal in seasons, it still intrigues me to see winter weather walls at this time of the year. Few of them are as cool as this witner wonderland though. If you’re looking for a cool monochrome wall to adorn your desktop this new year – look no further.
Five Star Wall – Week 2 – December 2011
The Desktopography site can be a bit hit and miss, but it does sometimes manage to showcase some good design work. This wallpaper is by Paweł Dąbrowski (better known as Polaus in customisation circles) and he’s produced a superb abstract wallpaper for this year’s ecologically themed exhibition. You can get it, here.
Five Star Wall – Week 3 – November 2011
So many months into my Five Star Wall feature and this week I’d like to show off one of my own favourite walls. It’s a photo wall that was taken at a nearby river as an amazing sun was settings over the oyster beds and the mangroves. You can get it, here.
Five Star Wall – Week 2 – November 2011
Sumptuous photo wallpaper for you this week, courtesy of Danny Tan (you can find his Flickr photostream here – it’s well worth checking out). Anyway – this is a photo of Brighton Pier in South Australia and the clouds look like that because it was shot with a wide-angle lens. You can get the wallpaper, here.
Minimalist Wallpapers – The Autumn Collection
It wasn’t that long ago when a desktop wallpaper meant some grim tile and an 8-bit colour scheme. Over the years as our home computers have grown ever more powerful, so has the quality and size of the displays we use with them. This has lead to an explosion on the wallpaper scene, with some truly amazing images now available for us all to personalise our desktop real estate.
I’m a big fan of minimalist wallpapers, but I think it’s a word that suffers from horrendous abuse on wallpaper sites. 95% of the wallpapers uploaded and tagged as minimalist are about as unadorned as an L.A. pimp’s teeth. But I’ve been looking high and low for perfect simple little minimalist wallpapers over the last few months and I’m now ready to show off the autumn collection – 14 great images to adorn your desktop, but not get in the way of work. Shout out to Hellishere for the cool iMac PSD. On with the show …
Read MoreFive Star Wall – Week 1 – November 2011
We’re a little bit late for the Halloween fun and games, but we won’t let that stand in the way of featuring this awesome dark wallpaper. Modified by TheAl from an original photograph by Vicki France, Dark Way Home is a lovely photo wall that works really well on the desktop. You can get it, here.
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Five Star Wall – Week 4 – October 2011
Back on a minimalist tip again this week and here’s a very cool wallpaper brought to you by BSA-Danny. CuBe’D WaLL was created using some neat Cinema 4D shaders and is available in a multi-resolution pack, comprising 16:9, 16:10 and iOS variants. You can get it, here or there’s an alternative isometric variant of this wallpaper, here.
Five Star Wall – Week 3 – October 2011
This week we’re channelling another era of music listening – the vinyl days. As a lapsed DJ I collected a vast amount of records over the years and can still vividly remember the joy of scrutinising the record sleeve while the album or 12″ was playing. Anyway – for sophisticated music lovers everywhere, here’s a wall by Tim Bonvallet. You can get it, here.
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