We love desktop wallpapers. And we love beautiful ones most. And although we monthly publish desktop wallpapers of our readers (desktop wallpaper calendar feature), we thought that it would be nice to provide our contributors with some fresh inspiration and our readers with some nice wallpaper update for a lousy Monday. The wallpapers for this post were selected over a long period of time; they cover mainly nature, abstract and digital art (further collections will be coming if you are interested). We’ve tried to pick only the most beautiful ones and hopefully you won’t be disappointed. Below we present a showcase of over 50 fantastic wallpapers that will blow your desktop away. Most of them are in HD and will make your desktop look as nifty as it is possible. Because the resolutions are so high, if one doesn’t fit your screen, use your favorite image editor to refine its dimensions. You may also be interested in the following related posts:

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Fantastic Wallpapers That Will Blow Your Desktop Away Bird on a branch Available in various widescreen, fullscreen, HDTV and dualscreen resolutions.

Patrick Gunderson’s abstract artworks Available in 1920×1080.

Unbrella Sky 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900

Glacier Sunrise Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

The Dancing Nebula 1920×1200px.

Colors and An Animal Available in various fullscreen resolutions.

Guara Available in 1920×1200, 2560×1600

Strukt Available in 1024×640, 2560×1600

Serenity Available in 1440×900.

De La Haut Available in various fullscreen resolutions.

Creamy Sky Available in various widescreen, fullscreen, HDTV and dualscreen resolutions.

Chameleon Available in various widescreen and fullscreen resolutions.

something like an astronomer

MacBook Pro Available in various widescreen, fullscreen, HDTV and dualscreen resolutions.

Bello Nebula Available in the resolution 1920×1200.

La Solitudine Available in the resolution 1680×1050.

Super Silo Available in various resolutions – widescreen, fullscreen and iPhone.

For A Thousand Years Available in 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050.

Dreamer A beautiful wallpaper created by Henrik Newstream, available in various full screen resolutions.

Equidistant Available in the resolutions 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1900×1200 and in the iPhone-version.

Nova Available in the resolution 1920×1200.

Eifel Tower Available in the resolution 1600×1200.

Ee Venn’s wallpaper Available in various resolutions – widescreen, fullscreen and iPhone.

Bokeh Available in Dual & Single Display Screens (Wide/Full Screen)

Vladstudio’s wallpapers Available in various fullscreen resolutions – 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1600×1200.

Cosmic Apple Available in various wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Let if fly Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Swan Available resolutions: 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Phalanx Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Autumn Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Chasing Dreams Available in 1920×1080.

It’s Magic Available in 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Influx Available in resolutions 1280×1024, 1920×1200 and 2560×1600.

All Falls Down Available in resolutions 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Distorted 7 HD Wallpaper Available in 1680×1050

Rooster’s Ranch Available in 1440×900, designed by Andrea Andrade.

Electricmanja Available in the resolutions 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 and in the iPhone version.

Photons Available in various themes in resolutions 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1920×1200.

Korean Star Paper Available in the resolution 1920×1200.

a flower Available in various resolutions 1600×1200 and 1920×1200.

The End, The Tsunami Available in 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

depthCore Heist Available in various resolutions – widescreen, fullscreen and iPhone.

Girl Available in 1680×1050.

Mac Universe Available in 1680×1050.

Twizted Available in the resolution 2560×1600.

In a Whisper Available in 1280×800

Fritrix Available in 1280×1224, 1680×1050, 2600×1300

Gone Clubbing Available in various resolutions: 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1280×800, but also fullscreen, HDTV and Mobile versions are available.

Route 66 1920×1200

The Dope Show Available in 1680×1050 (up to)

Yellow Silk Available in 1680×1050.

The Lich King (Warcraft)HD — 1900×1200

Diablo31024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200

Bulls on Parade 1100×778, 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1280×1024, 1280×800, 1024×768

Last Click Videogames Remakes Wallpapers The French designer Mikaël Aguirre designs remakes of legendary video games such as Mario, Sonic, Gunstar Heroes and others. The wallpaper dimensions are up to 5000×2800 for printing. Incredible pieces of art.

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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 55 free December desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe and sent to us by the designers themselves. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded and used 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 have we received for December? Happy Holidays "The wallpaper design includes a snowman in a red scarf, along with different illustrated objects to form the letters spelling “Happy Holidays”. The design concept is a modification from my holiday postcard I am sending out to family and friends this holiday season." Designed by Janice Go from USA.

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Ice Skating Designed by Vlad Gerasimov.

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Last month standing "I wanted to create calendar as a movie poster. I hope I did a good job." Designed by Nikola Lazarevic from Nis, Serbia .

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Art "Last weekend I was roaming around a college campus near my house. I have seen a nice shade and light. A beautiful building architecture crafted in stone and decorated by wood. It inspired me to paint in watercolor. I took my brush and put my expression on paper. This college campus has been inspiring me to paint over 2 years." Designed by Girish Chaudhary from Pune, India.

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Cruel Snowkids "This illustration just shows the fun of December in USA." Designed by Tim Newton from USA.

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Snow Time "This is going to be my second white Christmas and even though we are going to have snow until April, I guess, I just can’t wait to see Montreal wearing white!" Designed by Patricia Montero de Cabana.

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Thirty feet tall "This month I’ve based my design on a quote from The Merry Book of Christmas by Larry Wilde. It reminded me of how exciting Christmas is especially when you’re a child and see things through innocent eyes." Designed by Mark Kirwan from England.

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Best night of the year "This wallpaper design reproduces the most representative and best night in December - Christmas. That night when you are glad to receive presents and share the happiness of snow with your family is represented in this wallpaper. Merry Christmas! I did this design because I wanted something simple and representative. I’ve picked these symbols because there are the standard things that someone should have for a good Christmas: family, snow and gifts." Designed by Andy Gongea from Romania.

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Your Love "Your love is like a lot of Christmas balls falling from the sky… marvellous!" Designed by Bleed from Mexico.

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Typography "As a lot of you out there, I just want the year to reach its end, press ctrl + shift + del and end process tree. Images used: sxc.hu." Designed by Lucas Zubeldía from Argentina.

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Santa Flying Designed by Vlad Gerasimov.

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Snowboys "December is related to the winter snow. Since I live in a tropical country and I’ve never been to four-season countries, seeing the snow falling and making a snowman would be my biggest dream ever. So I created an illustration to live up my dream a little bit." Designed by Oridus Artic from Indonesia.

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Paper Snowman "Our wallpaper is titled “Paper Snowman”. We wanted to evoke the DIY ethos that many families will be embracing this year with simple, inexpensive decorations. Everyone’s got some paper, markers and tape lying around, and we hope this wallpaper will remind people that the holidays needn’t be expensive to be wonderful." Designed by Desktop Designing from USA.

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Smashing Skating "This wallpaper was created on the very first snowy day of this year, and was inspired by some flashbacks from my childhood, when we spent time on the frozen lake, and it represents the demythologization of the past, trying to distance the present from the big ideas that drove the “modern” age. It took so little to make us care free those days." Designed by Bojan Ilic from Belgrade, Serbia.

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Xmas handicrafts "We love the style of the new PS3 game „Little Big Planet“ and decided to design this Xmas wallpaper for Smashing Magazine in handicraft-style. Merry Xmas." Designed by signalfeuer from Butzbach, Germany.

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Christmas Time "”Hang up your pretty stockings And turn off the light It’s Christmas time The snow is falling on the ground Santa claus is back in town” (Elvis Presley - Santa Claus is Back in Town)" Designed by Natalia Valle from Brazil.

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Igniting colours "Igniting colours. Some colours are very vibrant.Red is one of them. A festive wallpaper for a festive month :) ." Designed by kashyap k from India.

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Cold Night "It’s a really cold night out there with a sky full of stars." Designed by Benedikte Vanderweeën from Belgium.

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The Little Sister "My inspiration came while browsing the image banks for some images. This little girl was staring at me so I decided that I should make a wallpaper with her. The cute Little Sister…" Designed by Peter Gavrilov from Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Dark December “Dark December was inspired by my first visit to Brasov, Romania in 1999. I was 13 at the time and I thought it was the most inspiring scenery on earth; it felt like a dream. Its dark and gloomy streets and old architecture made it an experience I’d never forget. When the fog fell down over the old part of the city, I got a glimpse of what it would have been like living in Dracula’s Transylvania. Since then, I’ve always wanted to visit it during the winter months; “Dark December” is what I think it would look like”. Designed by Steve Gherebean from USA.

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Aurora Borealis “Inspiration by aurora borealis effect that is visible in northern part of the world during winter”. Designed by Mariusz Ciesla from Poland.

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Christmas Flows "I was playing around with some brushes and textures that i have and decided to make a desktop wallpaper. The inspiration behind the wallpaper was to make it flow. in my eyes i;ve acheived this." Designed by Simon Hagen from South Africa.

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Sticker "It is a different approach to the topic of adorning the christmas tree. My tree is flat on paper and the bowls and the top star are added to it like stickers. It was created completely in Illustrator and Photoshop." Designed by Pica-ae or Anne Elster from Hamburg, Germany.

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Snail "This is a Snail with a castle on his back. Castles and snails are wonderfull." Designed by Valeria Kuzminskaya from Ukraine.

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Present "I was thinking about doing an illustration with different christmas like objects and eventually the idea of a gift loop popped up in my mind. And suddenly i wanted to create a wallpaper consisting of gift wrapping and loop. Like a close up photography of a present. So, this is my december wallpaper “Present”. I hope you will enjoy it. It was created completely in Illustrator and Photoshop." Designed by Pica-ae or Anne Elster from Hamburg, Germany.

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Twelve Designed by Andrei Barburas from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Spamless Winter "I’m a blogger who got a lot of spam these days on my site. The amount of spam sent to me is awfully a lot. Because spam is disturbing so I just wish I will be sent less spam in December. Since this wallpaper is for December, I made a character of spam that looks like a snowman with a wishing text that everyone will get less spam in December. " Designed by Oridus Artic from Indonesia .

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Brrr "The motivation for the design lies in the fact that here in Toronto, Canada, December marks the start of the “really freakin cold” season. I had just discovered some of the tutorials behind 3D text in Illustrator and wanted to give it a go." Designed by Stuart Thursby from Toronto, Canada.

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Violet Night "December can have a warm and sumptuous elegance as the Holidays approach, and folks gather together to spend time to celebrate and reminisce at the end of the year. I wanted to make dancing shapes create the letters of the month and year and create a festive feeling. I chose violet because it has a majestic feel, and it’s warm and inviting very much like a Violet Night." Designed by Paul Tamaro from USA.

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Blur typography greetings "Choosing “Merry Christmas” was mandatory… I just wanted to exercise some techniques and to wish everyone Merry Christmas (in 26 different languages!)." Designed by Bruno Belotti from Italy.

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Holiday Sweater “This design was created in 3D using extruded pixel fonts. The motivation behind it was holiday sweaters and snow.” Designed by Eric Petersen from USA.

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Modern Winter “I was inspired by crisp winter days and cool colors. I wanted to keep it light and airy, yet modern”. Designed by Seth Nickeson from USA.

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Vanitas "December is a rough month for a lot of people: holidays, Seasonal Affective Disorder, cold in the northern hemisphere. I deal with all of these every year, and every year, I find it oddly comforting to turn to the great vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These paintings are amazing still lifes, often with a theme of death, or decay, time passing, the futility of pleasure…At the end of the year, whether it’s winter or summer, it’s time to take stock, evaluate what we’ve been doing, what we want to spend our time and energy on next year, and the vanitas aesthetic is one I think a lot of us would like to tap into, even if we don’t know the name. This wallpaper was made in Photoshop CS3, by Elizabeth Yalkut, a New Yorker, with Creative Commons-licensed photography by Kessiye and freely-available fonts." Designed by Elizabeth Yalkut from New York, USA

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Lettersoup "Being a graphic designer with a love of letterforms, especially handlettering, I enjoy exploring the ways that new software/technology can offer a new vantage point from which to explore old traditions and disciplines. This piece of abstract lettering was drawn ink on paper and brought into a 3D program I have called Modo. In 3D space I apply lighting, cast shadows, bend the surface and set the camera to look through a refractive lense which distorts the artwork in unpredictable but interesting ways." Designed by Rod Sawatsky from BC, Canada.

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Beatific "I believe winter in the nordic countries is where the distinct, minimalistic, nordic style stem from. In winter nature here is scrubbed down to its most basic shapes and forms. I have a real hate/love relationship with winter, but I have to admit, it does serve a nice setting for the beautiful people here." Designed by Niklas Ångman from Sweden.

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Art Grunge " I thought I would participate in this upcoming months desktop wallpapers. I made this one morning, with photoshop. I love grungy stuff, so i made that the main the theme. I added the sound waves to demonstrate a loud contrast with the floral desingns. My site is still under contructuion, since I am a novice in web design and have been teaching myself, but my url is http://www.stephssite.exofire.net " Designed by Zaudith Wilson from USA.

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Boys World "I saw this scene in my dream last night. At the moment I woke up I felt that winter is coming. The boys are ready." Designed by Jana Jelovac from Belgrade, Serbia.

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World Harvest "This wallpaper is based on a graphic novella I have been working on which should have it’s first section completed by Christmas / New Years. It is set in about 20 years time and involves a grungey story about the society we’re in danger of developing… World Harvest is about the plight of people under the foot of historic injustice… and it’s an opportunity to mix my passions for writing, photography and design." Designed by Steven Clark from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Inevitable Imagination "The theme for the December calendar was pretty straight forward. I wanted to portray as sense of emptiness as the month of December tends to minimize the sense of joy which is apparent in the months of Summer. Sure there is the Christmas season but the winter brings out the heavy outerwear which engulfs everyone and people tend to channel out everyone around them mentally. You start seeing less and less people out and about. Everyone is blending in. It all seems a blur now. We are an imagination again." Designed by Umer Tahir from Calgary, Canada.

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The Simple Lines "Only simple lines, reflecting the chaotic spread confusion of time and mind." Designed by Rodrigo Grola from São Paulo, Brasil.

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Natural Grid "The theme of this wallpaper is the natural grid structure. This photograph is taken of the Tesselated Pavement at Eagle Hawk Neck, Tasmania. While it looks like a man made path it’s the result of ocean tides across bare rock." Designed by Steven Clark from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Fire Designed by Marco Colognola from Roma, Italy.

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Candy Cane Designed by Liz Andrade.

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Let it snow "A fun December/winter wallpaper for those who are ready for snow. Inspiration? Well I pretty much hate the winter and the cold, but if it has to be cold it might as well snow! So this is my winter theme, letting me know there is some hope for that special white stuff falling from the sky. Be sure and download the no calendar version so you can use it all winter long. There is even a little something extra on the no calendar version :) " Designed by Steve Mullen from USA.

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Matrioshka "I really like Eastern-European and Russian traditional art and December is my favorite month in the year. So when my eyes fell on the Matrioska I brought back from Prague, I decided to make a December calendar on this theme." Designed by Mitternacht.

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Revolutionary Love "My December calendar actually started as a graphic for a program to collect money to build wells in African civilizations and help to really make a difference this holiday season. I liked the graphic so much that I decided to make it a wallpaper to share with everyone. The concept of Revolutionary Love is to put others in front of yourself and make sacrifices to impact the world in such a way that those who see can only see love." Designed by Mike Monts De Oca from USA.

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My White Christmas " A tree and the snow, a very Christmas atmosphere." Designed by Ecmedia di Cucco Elisa from Italy.

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Feliz "This is my theme for the x-mas-month December, with the best wishes to everyone. Merry X-mas and a happy, busy and successful new year! " Designed by Steffen Schmitt from Spain.

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Peace "I’m Canadian – hence the moose! And I thought the Santa hat was a playful touch. Most importantly, no matter what or how we celebrate in December, I think we can all agree that peace on earth is a worthy goal, and that, in fact, it does begin with us." Designed by Michelle Cormack from Vancouver, Canada.

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Coke Lasts in December "This wallpaper symbolizes that Coke doesn’t die in December, and that you should drink it. I made it because I really liked the design on coke cans, so I decided to emulate it." Designed by Hayes Potter from Raleigh, USA.

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Freak Designed by Michal Trzebuchowski from Poland.

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Yellow Heart "I am dedicating my December wallpaper to my favorite Japanese Rock star, Matsumoto Hideto, who was born in December 1964. My inspiration was mainly from the style of his signature guitar model, which is also called “Yellow Heart”." Designed by Athena Emily from UK.

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Illustration Wintershades "I wanted to create a feeling of winter, cold, icy, but warm and peacefull. The idea for this design came through my mind when watching the lates video of Kylie Minogue (The One), the shapes repeating themselves. I only wanted to work with white and shadows, and for the background a bit of a winterfeeling. That ’s why I called it Wintershades." Designed by Nadine Perreman from Belgium.

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Stop Terrorism "The design is a blend of good typography and two-tone contrast that communicates a strong message ‘Stop Terrorism’ after the recent ‘Mumbai Terrorist Attacks’. The line ‘Live & Let live’ is a very famous quote by Swami Vivekanada. The wallpaper aims to re-ignite the humanness and passion lost in us today. The design also tends to awaken the each indiviual of the nation" Designed by Aashish Solanki from India.

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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. Hopefully, in December we’ll receive as many entries as in November. Join in next month and smashing December, folks!

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 50 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe and sent to us by the designers themselves. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded and used 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 November? The Pianist Available in 12 desktop resolutions — both widescreen and fullscreen. Designed by Vlad Gerasimov from Irkutsk, Russia.

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Cheshire Cat “I adore watch Disney cartoons and I have inspiration in bright funny colors. I was born in October. Autumn colors of nature and my birthday inspired me for drawing some nice pictures. I hope to draw many illustrations in future, let attend to my site and enjoy my drawing.” Designed by Xena from Ukraine.

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November Ice Queen Designed by Stefan Bialoszewski from UK.

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Indigena “Well about the wallpaper, I must said that this year, i went to patagonia, eventhough my country has a lot of indians, i never observed to their native art. Because of my trip i started looking to new things and ancient art seem to motivate my work for the last year. that’s why i wanted to do somethign related to it. This work is inspired by the Diaguitas Art, who use to live in the north.” Designed by Alberto Marcías from Santiago, Chile.

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Vibrant Blue “I took this picture to complete a set of primary colour pictures. I already had the red and yellow just needed the blue and this is what I found while walking my dog.” Designed by Curtis McHale from Canada.

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Photography “This wallpaper shows my plans for November…” Designed by Eric Petersen from New York, USA.

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Circular “I got inspired by the package design of the Adobe CS4. I love the vibrant colours in mosaic on a dark background and believe that it makes for a good wallpaper. I just played around with shapes until I was happy. It reminds me of the signal screen on old televisons. It’s been done entirely in Photoshop using nothing but filters and gradients.” Designed by Franz Jeitz from Luxembourg.

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Art Tree Designed by Girish Chaudhary from India.

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Red Scales “In this wallpaper I wanted to experience a creative combination between a modern element and some oldstyle elements, playing with black and red color.” Designed by Michele Virgilio from Italy.

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French Autumn “This wallpaper is rather simple, with colors which remind me autumn… No complication with the name, I had no idea for it, and I’m French so… French Autumn!” Designed by Celine Satheen from France.

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L’Astrolabe Research “The theme of this wallpaper is a photograph of the research vessel L’Astrolabe which docks at the Salamanca Wharf area in Hobart, Tasmania between visits to the Antarctic and Great Southern Ocean. I particularly like the strong colour and the masculine industrial feel of the photograph. There are also feminine elements in the reflections off the harbour water which add interest. L’Astrolabe spends its time gathering information about global warming and ocean species.” Created by Steven Clark from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Black Dodge “The Black Dodge in this photograph is parked every day outside the Tasmanian School of Art in Hunter Street, Hobart. As you can see it’s style, elegance and romance is in stark contrast to the surrounding cars. It’s always polished, always tempting to take for a harmless drive and triggers a combination of nostalgia for those sexy cars of Cuba with a large tot of industrial design.” Created by Steven Clark from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Mice and his shoes “The work was inspired by the upcoming winter at the dirty streets of Belgrade, Serbia, “grunge” town which I come from. Our snow always appears gray. :)” Designed by Jana Jelovac from Belgrade, Serbia (e-mail: cortexj at gmail dot com).

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November Calendar Designed by Patricia Villanueva.

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Yesterday’s Equinox “November, autumn is in full swing and the vivid colours of the forests are kept shining by the uninterrupted flow of pigments pouring from the sky when everyone is asleep, reviving in every soul the nostalgia that yesterday’s equinox has left behind.” Designed by Valentin Triponez aka Tanoshism from Japan.

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Cold Approaching “November is the month when it really starts to get cold and snow is right around the corner. Motivation: I love this weather!” Designed by Tim Newton from USA.

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Fascination “The calendar’s motivation was Alphabeat’s hit song: FASCINATION. I just adore that song and it deserved a wallpaper. Then my friends adored it and suggested me submitting it to your calendars’ contest; I hope you enjoy it as much as I did designing it.” Created by Daniel Vazquez from Madrid, Spain.

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Baby Chick “When i decided to design a wallpaper for smashing magazine, i thought, it must be colorful, different and it should tells something about my sytle. So i started to draw then i made this.” Created by Sinem Senol from Turkey.

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Candies “Little girl loves candies. The weather in November is dull, and it’s a great pleasure to see something pretty at the desktop.” Created by Valeria Kuzminskaya from Ukraine.

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Crazy Autumn Day “Done in Photoshop Cs3, the concept is one warm and cold image in turn, people believe that digital art can not have feelings, and I believe that art is not on the stand if not on what the artist wants to convey to others.” Designed by Vladimir Bauer from Serbia.

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Road To November “I got the idea from a tutorial i did a few month ago. and thought it might work nice as a desktop so i decided to go ahead and play around wiith it.” Designed by Simon | Project5 from South Africa.

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Flowers For November “I was playing around with some ideas for a desktop for my personal laptop to use as branding for myself.” Designed by Simon | Project5 from South Africa.

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Creative Design Designed by Rafal Tomal from Poland.

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Smoke in Purple Designed by Xena from Ukraine.

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Cube “I’m a technical illustrator and I basically came up with this from looking at isometric illustrations all day.” Designed by Kristopher Kouba.

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The Vigil “While we witness the beautiful transition of seasons in the month of September, all November seems to display is a silent wait for the upcoming snow. As December approaches, nature’s vigil begins.” Designed by Alex Beltechi from Romania.

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Wisdom comes with Winter “November - the start of winter in the Northern hemisphere. Maybe not the most welcoming month. Here I used the quote I remember: “Wisdom comes with winter.” by Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, arranged with a simple typography. Hoping to make the month pleasanter! Please enjoy.” Designed by Athena Emily from UK.

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Art Autumn “This is 100% fun, freestyle, love, happy times and the future! We were all young, and this is how I saw / see the world as child/now student.” Designed by Bram Vanhaeren from Belgium.

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Loco Slickers - Dark & Smokie Designed by Daniel Nägeli from Switzerland.

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Get Ready “I live in the coldest city with a population over 100,000 (Winnipeg, Canada) and I think that people are grumpy that it’s getting colder. This wallpaper is a reminder that winter is (sometimes) clean, beautiful, refreshing, and maybe not so bad!” Designed by Eli Penner from Canada.

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Seasonal Desktop “Foggy countryside, leaves, wood. My autumnal desktop! My motivation was to create something simple but representative.” Designed by Ecmedia di Cucco Elisa from Italy.

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Fly Away “I created this wallpaper with the feeling of freedom and liberation in mind.” Designed by Irene Demetri from Greece.

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West Lives On “I captured the photo that forms the basis of this work at a ranch in Nebraska where my wife works. I feel this work embodies the romance surrounding the power and beauty of the horse and titled it “The West Lives On” in the spirit of adventure and hard work.” Designed by Jonathan Sharp from Nebraska, USA.

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Beauty With Cigarette “Sometimes beauty can be fleeting like smoke or butterflies.” Designed by Anna Skibinska from Poland (e-mail: onyxen at o2 dot pl).

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Turkey Designed by Karina (Pixel Pixie).

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Thanks Gratitude Wonder “Thanks Gratitude Wonder is inspired by Thanksgiving. I thought this quote was really in keeping with the season, and the fall palette and ghostly trees said November in New England to me.” Designed by Leslie Tane Design from the USA.

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To Dream Of Autumn “Inspired by autumn, the colors of nature changing, the sound of leaves crunching as you walk down the street, the whistling wind and an evening cuddled up in a warm quilt.” Designed by Liz Andrade, CMD+Shift Design.

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Unforgettable Autumn “November is gray and dull, we feel down and forget lots of things. This calendar is vivid and colorful to break the dullness of the autumn and has a sticky note to make you remember.” Designed by Mariusz Ciesla from Poland.

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My Imagination “My November design is inspired by the rainy, cloudy November we have here in the Pacific northwest. As November washes away the warmth of summer, the vibrancy of the season’s colours live on in my imagination. I find the words of the Walter de la Mare poem “November” really evoke the feelings November brings…” There is wind where the rose was, Cold rain where sweet grass was, And clouds like sheep Stream o’er the steep Grey skies where the lark was. I had a lot of fun putting this wallpaper together. It’s all vector illustration in Illustrator. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.” Designed by Michelle Cormack from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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C’est une femme! “It may sound silly, but, it was quite nice that a little girl recognized the woman I was drawing on the bus. Normally people don’t talk to me (and I appreciate that!), but this little lady made me feel really good.” Designed by Patricia Montero de Cabana.

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Fallpaper “Fall is my favorite time of year and I was having trouble finding a wallpaper that expressed this beautiful season to my satisfaction. To solve this I created a wallpaper of my own in Photoshop. I harvested resources from a number of sites including sxc.hu and bittbox.com to create my piece of art. I think that fall is different from autumn in that the leaves are actually “falling” from the tree. In my design I wanted to capture all the colors of this warm season.” Designed by Philip McDaniel from USA.

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Through The Window “It’s going to be rainy cold and gray. I hope i’m going to be at home watching “through the window”. This is the result.” Created by Nikola Lazarevic from Serbia.

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Sweet November “Inspired by the movie Sweet November.” Created by Vlad Georgescu from Romania.

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Oops “My contribution to your monthly calendar series is based upon a picture I shot from a friends couple’s boy. In that photo he looks so mysterious, that it inspired me to a spooky November calendar collage. I’m a photographer, painter and web designer living with my wife and our four kids in Austria.” Created by Sascha David Rieger from Austria.

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Miscellaneous Days “The calendar is the design of the calendar. Fourth version of the miscellaneous days calendar - Loosely group your desktop items around the days you plan to be working on them.” Designed by Michael Schmidt from Vienna, Austria.

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XI Designed by Adam Cavatis.

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iSphere Designed by Chris De Schryver from Belgium.

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Marine Tech Designed by Xena from Ukraine.

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Geometric tribute to Guy “The design is loosely based around Guy Fawkes night (November 5th) and the many firework displays that are part and parcel of the evenings’ celebrations. I was interested by the inherent beauty of fireworks and the way in which they explode, hence the abstract, geometric style of the imagery. I opted for a warm colour palette to give the wallpaper a sense of cosiness, a feeling I recall from many ‘Bonfire nights’ of my youth.” Designed by Mark Kirwan from the art agency Persona, England.

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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. Hopefully, in November we’ll receive as many entries as in October. Join in next month and smashing November, folks!