Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Junction, Nadia Serif, Nilland, CartoGothic Std, Bergamo Std, Comic Serif, Birra Stout, Vegur and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time.
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Fantastic Wallpapers That Will Blow Your Desktop Away
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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:
Really Stunning Desktop Wallpapers 100 Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers 70 Beautiful Dual-Screen Desktop Wallpapers
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.
Related posts You may also be interested in the following related posts:
70 Beautiful Dual-Screen Desktop Wallpapers 100 Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers Really Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
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Retro Toys: A Free Icon Set
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Today we are glad to release “Toys”, a retro icon set that was designed by Helen Gkizi and released with Smashing Magazine for its readers. The set contains 9 “toys” icons (png, 128×128px) that may come in handy in a variety of settings – e.g. in projects related to children and family.
The files are transparent PNGs, and the source file (.eps) is included as well. As always, the set is completely free and may be used for any private or commercial project without any restrictions whatsoever. Download the set for free!
download the set (.zip, including .eps-source, 0.6 Mb) release post on Webtoolkit4.me
We express sincere gratitude to Helen for her great work. Please let us know in the comments if this release meets your expectations. And if not, please let us know what we could improve in the upcoming releases! Related posts Please take a look at other high-quality freebies as well:
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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2009
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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 45 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 March 2009? Paragliding "Some people are made for the sky, some people are made for the Earth! Clear Sky, travelling and flying that’s what we are living for." Designed by Michael Gabris from Zvolen, Slovakia.
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Third Month of the Year "Playing with typography." Designed by Nikola Lazarevic from Nis, Serbia.
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March-09 "I wanted to do someting with the avantgarde font, but because its very used and its very destinct I thought why not do it in 3D. I have never seen avantgarde in 3D (its probably done, but I havent seen it). Anyways, I wanted it clean but with some color to symbolize that its still winter here in sweden but the spring is coming right up with all its color." Designed by Pål Linder from Sweden.
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Spring is coming "Spring is coming soon and I can’t wait until the flowers start blooming again." Designed by Kathleen Verhetsel from Belgium.
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Valentine Hangover "I designed this for those who are sick of Valentine’s Day in mind. March may be pushing it to be hung up on some holiday but I think you have to keep the ol’ love box going all year. And it’s my birthday on the 18th! Yay! " Designed by Jason Jajalla from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Hug me Forever Designed by Jana Jelovac from Belgrade, Serbia.
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Inspiration Inspired "The motivation for this wallpaper is David Ogilvy one of the greatest minds in advertising." Designed by Martian Design Studios.
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Space Invaders "The inspiration for this wallpaper comes from the classic arcade video game Space Invaders. Since the game itself is very simple, I thought it was appropriate to make the wallpaper minimalistic too." Designed by Reinis Ivanovs from Riga, Latvia.
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Good Luck "Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Though many think that it’s the “luck of the Irish” - Irish luck is indeed bad luck. (or at least that’s what I’ve heard) So this wallpaper is a play on that with the destruction of the 4 leaf clover and the words “good luck march” trying to actually wish everyone the best of luck for the month of march even though Irish luck is seen as bad luck." Designed by Lucas Tetrault.
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Abstract Eastegg "My work is for the march month, thats the month off the east time, i wont to rememenber that, the eggs, the rabits, anda the place where their live and eat: the carots. I creat a beautiful composition with that elements." Designed by Ana Fernandes from Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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Lost Between Earth and Space "Inspiration behind Lost-Between-Earth-and-Space came from feeling lost and confused. Sometimes you are not sure whether you are here or out there so. I created this wallpaper to constantly remind me to not always be like everyone else, to be different and to remind me that confusion is not a bad thing because it can lead to excellent ideas and great success." Designed by Marcos Garcia.
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Pizzicato Wail Designed by Laura Racero from Madrid, Spain.
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Madman Designed by Manuel Ressel from Germany.
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March Spring "This one is the Beauty of Spring. As we all know March is the season of Spring in the northern hemisphere, the beauty of nature can be seen in this season. Greenery all over the place makes the Earth look like Heaven." Designed by Shashank Goswami from India.
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Crane Designed by filip from Germany/Spain.
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Random Assortment Designed by Jon Victorino from Campbell, USA.
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Ripe and Raw "This wallpaper tells that with combining old and fresh designs you can come up with something that will attract different generations:) and also this pic was shot by my girlfriend who is a professional photographer and my source of inspiration." Designed by Roy Galve from Philippines .
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Urban Night "March is that month when winter gives way for first signs of spring. The origin of the name comes from Roman Martius after Mars. I wasn’t able to catch Mars from my window, so I settled with Moon." Designed by Ilan Bresler from Israel.
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Eat Sleep Design "After a great deal of personal searching and staring moodily into still pools of water, I made the admission to myself that these are really the only things that I need on a regular basis. It also comes as a handsome 11×17 freely available on my web site." Designed by Colin Parks from Canada.
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Clinging to Colour "I designed this wallpaper as a typographic / abstract work paying tribute to my thoughts whilst creating it with the words inscribed. It was also an exercise of “less is more”, as the piece started out with many other elements and textures and was eventually reduced right back down to what you see today." Designed by John O’Nolan.
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Magic Horse "I like Magic and fantasy and full moon so I thought to do a fantasy with a full moon . . . finally I came up with this . . ." The wallpapers is based on the tutorial Create a magic night. Designed by Maya Sivalingam from Sri Lanka.
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St. Patrick "This wallpaper not only touches on my faith as a Catholic but also my roots in Ireland. Using a St. Patrick Prayer Card. I created an aged wallpaper bearing St. Patrick along with a little information about him other than he drove all the snakes out of Ireland." Designed by Rachel E Cobb from USA.
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Computer Head "This wallpaper features a watercolor of a guy with a computer monitor as a head, with a big eye on the screen. I work with computers a lot, and sometimes it feels like I’m turning into a computer zombie - you know, when 5 hours later you realize its 5 hours later." Designed by Nicole Hanusek from USA.
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Colorful March "March is my favorite month because it starts with my birthday ! :) it brings colors and fun in my life. thats why theme is colorful march ;)" Designed by Veerendra from India.
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Spring Coming "When spring’s coming you can feel it in your bones. I wanted to recreate this feeling with colors and textures. Simplifying things (too much): each month is a journey (car), but it can be creative (pencil) and magical (fractals)." Designed by PeHaa from Poland.
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Stpatsday Spring "I took a shot of the moss in the back garden to use one day in a design but have never found the need till now. With St. Patrick’s day coming up I thought it would be nice to add a four leaf clover sprouting out and highlighting this fantastic day, and add a blast of colour to peoples desktops." Designed by Gareth Brown from Birmingham, UK.
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Gritty St. Pats The wallpaper was removed due to the copyright infringement. Deep Underwater "There are deep underwater fishes. All ocean creatures are wonderful, they always inspirate." Designed by Valeria Kuzminskaya from Ukraine.
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Spring Tulips "Spring is ready to begin, it is my favorite season of the year." Designed by Benedikte Vanderweeën from Ronse, Belgium.
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Flowers & Fly "Its part of the calendar cyclus, a series of artworks, painted on mesh gear. The flowers and the fly symbolize the reawakening of nature and life, the rise of spring, grey fades to colors…" Designed by Werner Wagner from Germany.
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Detail "Details are small, but they can make the different… or a big poo." Designed by Alexander Chludek from Germany.
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Art Retro Motion "I had some time off from school so I like to design and this is the result." Designed by Sipko Dijkstra from The Netherlands.
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Martius Blindness "This started out as a skull vectorization with numerology turned grunge piece with a symmetric touch march was originally named ‘martius’ after mars, roman god of war. This is the 3rd month of 09, a year of many wars; civil wars, financial wars & the never ending human wars. In man’s quest for their own causes, they are seemingly blind to those around them while they have moved on, those left behind have to pick up the pieces and it never ends - satisfaction is not a permanent vocabulary in man’s dictionary. " Designed by Joy Lym from Singapore.
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Colour of Love "March is the month when people start impatiently waiting for early Spring; and Spring, among other things, associates with falling in love. To me the colour white symbolizes these feelings more than any other colour. And this design is also quite personal - about my own feelings towards that maybe special someone. The surrealistic touch of bits and pieces connected with strings is how we slowly get to know the other person." Designed by Signe Cāne from Latvia.
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Scrappy Love "This calendar reflects my love of collage and texture. I love tiny details and layers of different styles and subjects. It also showcases a love of typography and tokidoki! Its a free flowing doodle." Designed by Cara Bonsdorf from Victoria, BC, Canada.
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First Blossoms "First Blossom - a hand drawn tree that bursts into blossoms the first day of Spring (the 21st of March)." Designed by PeHaa from Poland.
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March Holi "Vibrant Holi is the name I have given to this set. As you may know - “In INDIA Holi is celebrated in March and it is a festival of Colors, where people color each other with ‘gulal’ and play it with all happiness and enthusiasm.” So Say HOLI HAI!!" Designed by Shashank Goswami from India.
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Typo "My motivation is my imagination =D" Designed by Filip Skundric from Slavonski Brod, Croatia.
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How Should I Fly Designed by Sinem Şenol.
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Japanese Girl’s Day "This calendar design is inspired by kimonos, origami birds, and the Japanese holiday Girl’s Day, which is on March 3rd each year. March 3rd is also my sister’s birthday, so I made this for her." Designed by Viil Lid from Norway and Honolulu, USA.
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The Search "I shot this picture in Mahabalipuram, Tamilnadu. The lady was standing still for a long time. Her calm face added more intrigue to the scene n im taken aback by that." Designed by Karthik from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
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Birds Return "Swallows and cherry blossom not only represent spring but are omens of good fortune. This wallpaper is about the birds finally coming back after winter and having a good gossipy catch up on all the news. Things are getting brighter. Listen out in the mornings and you’ll hear them." Designed by Suzie Knight from Leeds, UK.
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Them "I used the picture as a starting point for a charity event poster that i’ve done recently. i liked how it turned out and i decided to make a wallpaper." Designed by David Gheorghiţă from Romania.
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Green Life "I came up with this theme after I took one of my photographs and played with it in Photoshop. It’s my interpretation of spring and everything coming to life again during this month. Dark and gloomy days make way to sunny days and nature blossoms again. " Designed by Anca Varsandan from Timisoara, Romania.
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Hair Designed by Martin Dörsch from Austria.
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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! And smashing March, folks!
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50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets
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By Daved Brosche, Naveed Javaid and Smashing Editorial Team When it comes to freebie designs, beautiful icons sets are tops. Designers scour for these free treasures more than anything else. You can use icon sets in Web applications, website designs and on your desktop. If well designed, they make a great impression on others. Beautifully designed icons also prove the quality of a designer’s work, so many designers make theirs freely available online, thus giving their work more exposure. In the overview below, we present 50 beautifully designed, free and professional high-quality icons for desktop and Web design. All of them can be freely used for private projects, and some are available for commercial use as well. Regardless, always read the licenses — they may change from time to time. You can also scan through our other icon-related articles:
40 Professional Icon Sets for Free Download Download some fresh, professional icon goodies. 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets Spice up your posts with nice illustrations, or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons. Icons for Your Desktop and Icons for Your Web Designs High-quality free icons that you can use for your desktop and Web designs. 20 Free and Fresh Icon Sets Over 20 free beautiful sets and links to other free icon libraries.
50 Beautiful, Free and High-Quality Icon Sets Container Icon Pack Container Icon Pack contains 40 high-quality (256 x 256 pixel) icons in PNG and ICO formats. This package includes box, cargo, trash icons and more. Created by Mehmet Gozetlik.
Baggy Icon Set Contains five high-quality icons in three formats (ICO, ICNS and PNG) and six sizes, ranging from 16 to 512 pixels!
Round theme icons A beautiful set of 106 various rounded icons.
Fortune 500 Badges Over 200 badges of famous brands, PSDs included.
Red Moleskine Red Moleskine is a beautiful icon set in PNG format and sizes of 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512 pixels.
Old-School Icon Set A set of six beautiful old-ish icons: typewriter, camera, radio, TV set, Gameboy, and telephone. In PNG and ICO.
Playground Nine beautiful and original icons (in PNG and ICO), created by the talented Miriam Moshinsky.
Windows 7 Build A set of various basic software and office icons.
Classic Timer Icon A quality timer icon in transparent vector format, with different sizes.
Nes Icons Pack A set of retro icons (TV, NES, Pad, Alimentation box, Zelda box, Zelda game, Desktop, 1up, Magic Toad) in ICO and PNG (512 × 512 pixels).
Jeans Feed Icons A set of stylish feed icons as denim pockets.
Cemagraphics Icons A set of various beautiful icons in PNG (32 × 32 and 512 × 512 pixels).
To-Do List Icon Use these icons in your Web applications to make them more attractive.
Social Media Handycons Handycons is a free hand-drawn set of 12 social-media icons. All icons are available in four sizes: 16, 24, 32 and 48 pixels.
Canon 400D + lens 17-85mm Set of two icons: camera and lens. Comes in sizes of 512 and 16 pixels and iContainer, ICNS, PNG and ICO format.
Retrofukation A stylish set of icons to complement almost any theme out there. Designed to be easily distinguishable, simple and intuitive. This icon pack contains over 100 icons. Designed by Jamie Green.
e-Commerce Icons A huge set of icons that you can use for an online shop.
Function icons set A beautiful and useful set of 128 icons, available in 48 × 48 pixels.
Elementary Icons A set of smaller Web developer-style icons.
Human 02 Here is a nice multi-purpose icon set for your business website.
32px Mania Icon Set Another series of smaller icons that can add flair to any website design.
Business Icons A collection of random business-related icons with a Web 2.0 look.
Chums Icon Set This is the ultimate collection of high-quality tech-related icons. You can find everything from iPods to digital cameras.
Tom Tom Does your business deal with GPS and navigation systems? Then this is the icon set for you.
Black Neon Agua Icons A unique icon set that is ideal for darker website designs.
Credit Cards Icons 15 beautiful credit card icons in AI and EPS format. And here are yet more credit card icons.
Antique Icons A set of antique icons in PNG, ICNS and ICO formats, ranging from 16 × 16 to 256 × 256 pixels.
Hand-made food and beverage icon set Seventeen hand-drawn icons, created by Victor Amanatidis.
Social Media Mini Iconpack This icon set consists of 30 finely crafted social media icons in a size of 16 × 16 pixels. They are free to use non-commercially.
Manto Smiley Icon Set Twenty original emoticons by Chinese designer Manto.
Emotions For WordPress Icons Emoticons for WordPress.
Green and Blue Icon Set Five icons, each in 128 × 128 pixels and PNG format. Included are icons to represent gallery, downloads, emoticons, calendar and folder.
Airport Express This icon is for personal use only. Download includes iContainer, PNG and PSD formats.
Coquette Part 3 Icons This free playful icon set contains curvy and colorful icons made with one goal: to get some affection and playfulness into your projects. The 50 high-quality icons come in sizes of 16, 32, 48, 64 and 128 pixels, and in 32-bit transparency PNG format.
Email Me Icons These icons are free for personal use and available in 32, 48, 64 and 128 pixels.
Reality A set of beautiful, realistic icons of different daily-use object. These are free for non-commercial use.
Music Icons Beautiful icons of music instruments. Icons are absolutely free for any purpose.
Sleek XP: Basic Icons A set of 50 stock icons in PNG and ICO formats.
Set of Social Icons A set of beautiful social icons in PNG format and sizes of 16, 32 and 64 pixels.
GP Icons A set of 23 PNG icons of different software products. Has a great grunge style.
Banking Stuff Icons Banking-related icons for non-commercial use, in sizes of 32, 48, 64, 128 and 256 pixels.
Smashing Magazine’s Icons Smashing Retro Icon Set A set of 10 beautiful, high-quality “vintage” icons. The set contains 10 original icons: search, sign-up, calendar, news, RSS, comments, email, ads, home and address.
Flavours Icon Set This set, aimed to help designers in their Web and user interface designs, contains 177 icons in a resolution of 48×48 pixels. The files are available in the PNG and PSD sources, so you can modify the files as you wish. Created by Oliver Twardowski.
Stationery Icons Set A useful set of 22 vector icons (256 × 256 pixels). It contains book, brush, crayon, clip, color pencils, document, eraser, pad, palette, post-it note, scale and scissors, as well as the Fireworks source file.
On Stage Icons Set The set contains 49 free vector icons, including PSD, which can be useful for both corporate and personal projects. You can use the set for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. The icons are available in PNG format in a resolution 128×128 pixels. Also included in the package are 100% pure shape-based layered PSDs.
Fresh Icons Set This set contains 59 raster and vector icons. The set includes icons in PNG, ICNS and ICO formats. An EPS vector file is available as well.
Practica Icons Set A free set of 11 useful high-quality icons, designed by DryIcons especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are available in resolutions of 64, 128 and 256 pixels, in 32-bit transparency PNG format.
About the author Naveed Javaid is a Web designer and runs the blog SmashingApps, which focuses on free resources and inspiration especially for designers and developers. If you want to connect with the author, you can follow him on Twitter. (al)
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February 16 2009, 4:59pm | Comments »
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Smashing Retro Icon Set
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Over the last few months, we have extensively covered the influence of retro and vintage style on modern Web design. We have looked at recent vintage Web designs, showcased posters and typography and presented vintage tutorials. In fact, we are confident that vintage is still in, and that many designers are experimenting with this style to achieve unusual, creative and (hopefully) effective results. So today, we are pleased to release the Smashing Retro Icon Set, a set of 10 beautiful, high-quality “vintage” icons, created by the talented Russian design agency SoftFacade especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The set contains 10 original icons: search, sign-up, calendar, news, RSS, comments, email, ads, home and address.
Download the set for free! You can use the set for free and without any restrictions in both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sub-licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
Download the set (.zip, ICO and PNG, 9.3 MB)
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100 Beautiful Free Textures
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By Steven Snell Use of texture in Web design is extremely common. Part of the reason textures are so useful to designers is the relative ease of the integrating one into a design if a high-quality textured image already exists, not to mention the endless possibilities. Fortunately, plenty of photographers and designers are willing to share their work with the rest of us so that we can use them in a number of different ways. In this post, we’ll look at 100 different textures in a wide variety of different categories. Of course, each image is linked to the source where it can be downloaded. As with any type of freebie, be sure to read the terms and conditions or stipulations by the owner before using it in your work. For more on textures see:
Textures in Modern Web Design Textures and Patterns Design Showcase Smashing Texture Contest
Wool Textures
Leather Textures
Denim Textures
Cardboard Textures
Paper Textures
Wood Textures
Wall Textures
Metallic Textures
Grunge Textures
Gritty Textures
Granular Textures
Water Textures
Glass Textures
Grass Textures
Tiled Textures
Modern Textures
About the Author: Steven Snell is a Web designer and freelance blogger who can be found on his own blog, Vandelay Website Design, or you can connect with him on Twitter. (al)
February 6 2009, 5:10am | Comments »
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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 2009
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The wallpapers calendar series will not be discontinued. Next month is the last month in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. In February, you’ll have one last chance to showcase your work by designing a desktop wallpaper calendar for Smashing Magazine. But don’t worry, we have a number of new contests coming up, so it will be worth staying in touch! Wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use one wallpaper for a long time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration from it. That’s why we decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers to cover 12 months. And to make them a little more distinctive than the usual fare, we decided to embed calendars for each month. If you need to look up a date, isn’t it better to show off nice wallpaper with a nice calendar, instead of launching your default time application? This post features 70 (!) free desktop wallpapers for February 2009, created by designers across the globe. Every wallpaper can be downloaded for free and comes in two versions: one with a calendar and one without. Please note:
All images are linked to a 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 feature on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?
This month, we’ve been literally smashed by the explosion of your desktop wallpaper calendars. So look out, February 2009, we’re coming! Moon Dreams “Here is my moon schedule calendar for February 2009. A moon phase for every day, because since ancient times people have always known about the moon cycle and how it affects human behavior. When the moon is full or new, people can be extremely sensitive and show some big changes in their mood and behavior. That is why I wanted to create something fun and useful at the same time. I called it “Moon Dreams.’” Designed by Yana Foltice.
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Love Knows No Boundaries Designed by Vlad Gerasimov.
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Color Moods “Colors, elements and textures. Happy and cool. Bold and delicate. Sometimes, they’re all you need to change your mood. Besides, spring is just a few days away. Enjoy!” Designed by Maya Lavda from Ideaspot, Greece.
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Feeling warm “This is more like a welcoming spring than a celebrating winter wallpaper… Feeling warm, yet? Don’t worry, it’s coming.” Designed by Kalina Georgieva of Bulgaria.
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Dragon Photograph Designed by Marcin Kumorek of Krakow, Poland.
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Love Hurts “The motivation for this is the moment one realizes that love’s prison has no other escape than pain. Does that sound like I think love stinks? Good… it does.” Designed by Don Giannatti of Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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Simply Gorgeous “Rather than taking the clichéd route of a Valentine’s Day theme, I went with something a bit more different. My original intent was to show something unique but bring in some colors that reflected the romantic essence of February. Kudos to artists like Chuck Anderson and Pete Harrison for the continued inspiration.” Designed by Umer Tahir of Calgary, Canada.
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River Dawn “My entry is a photograph of the River Adur, near my home, and was taken just after dawn in the middle of winter. I love the blue and orange contrasting colors, and having it on my desktop in the warm reminds me to acclimatize my cameras to the cold before I venture outside.” Designed by Irving Bartlett of United Kingdom.
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I Love You More than My Laptop “February is hearts month, and in celebrating upcoming Valentine’s Day, I came up with a theme with my own Mascot telling someone that ‘I love you more than my laptop.’ Am I sweet? :)” Designed by Ronald Bien Punla of Philippines.
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Other Lands “These ‘Other Lands’ are those inside us, the ones we dwell in — or promise ourselves to reach someday — believing that we know and rule them, despite their inhospitable conditions and unpredictable climate.” Designed by Laura Racero of Madrid, Spain.
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Winter Bug 2009 “Last night, I was on my ‘night photography walk,’ and I saw this old VW Beetle and said to myself, ‘That car has not been driven for decades, but I’ll use my camera to drive it through cyberspace.’” Designed by Dejan Cirovic of Serbia.
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Purification “The work was inspired by the etymology of the word ‘February’ and old customs related to this month. ‘February’ comes from the Latin term februum, which means purification, and it is a feature of many religions.” Designed by Bojan Ilic of Serbia.
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Simple, Clear and Cold “A bit of Swiss-style graphic design here. Simple, clear and cold. This one is pretty pointless without all the numbers (2, 9), so the version without the calendar is not provided. Sorry for that.” Designed by Serhiy of Ukraine.
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Winter Sun “On one of my trips back home to southern Germany I was out in the countryside on a beautiful sunny late winter day. The landscape was just magnificent, with the sparkling snow in the mid-day sun. I took the picture with my digital camera when the horse appeared because it really shows how small we are in proportion to these majestic mountains. From the picture, I created the artwork for the desktop. Hope you all enjoy! ” Designed by Brigitte DiBenedetto of USA and Germany.
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Rosso Alfa “This is our proposal for the February desktop calendar. It is photography-based and features a superb red Alfa GTV on a beautiful sightseeing trip of Brasov, Romania. The motivation behind the design is in fact the birth of the Romanian Alfa Club Association, which was celebrated by a printed wall calendar featuring the most import cars from the community. Every month, we decided to also do a digital version of the calendar.” Designed by Stroe Alexandru and Marius Dumitru from Romania.
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Waiting for the Spring “It’s still winter here in the Netherlands, but spring is in sight.” Designed by Edwin Duinkerken of The Netherlands.
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Cats Designed by Jana Jelovac of Belgrade, Serbia.
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Calligraphy “Inspired by the Chinese New Year last month, I wanted to incorporate Chinese calligraphy into my design.” Designed by David Sutoyo of the USA.
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Fighting for Spring “Where I live, February marks the month that the gloom of winter begins to dissipate, and the tiny buds of spring begin to peek out here and there. So… this is February, as I see it. ” Designed by Shannah Smith of Georgia, USA.
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My Summer “I’m a designer from Perú (in South America). As you know, here in the southern hemisphere, it’s summer. We also have here in Perú the the best waves and beaches to surf and our own Surf World Champion: Sofia Mulanovich. So, I take that for inspiration. I think your southern-hemisphere readers will feel at home with my summer wallpaper calendar.” Designed by Heldrik Lynch of Perú.
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The Month of Love Designed by Alex ElChehimi of Montreal, Canada.
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Tormentas “I often look at Creative Commons images on Flickr for inspiration. These two (tormentas de verano and a woman, a boy, and a toy monkey) were two I was playing with and suddenly thought of combining. I always like adding a little color to black amp, white or sepia, and I also try to find interesting color combinations. ” Designed by Seth Nickeson of the USA.
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Saint Valentines Day “”Valentine’s Day, or Saint Valentine’s Day, is a holiday celebrated on February 14. When I think of February, love, hearts and images of happiness come to my mind. This happiness is the one I wanted to express in the calendar.” Designed by PhotoshopTutorials of the USA.
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Winter Frosty Leave Designed by Sandie Sørensen. Yes, that is a typo on the wallpaper.
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Sheep “My motivation was quite straightforward: needed to take a break and saw tweet about upcoming deadline for February ‘09 calendar wallpaper.” Designed by Lukasz Tyrala of Poland.
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Love “This wallpaper features one of my photos, inspired by the Valentine’s Day. I took the photo to show that love is everywhere; sometimes it hides, but it always surrounds you.” Designed by Travis Person of the USA.
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Wisp “Here is a fairy-tale castle in a bog, guarded by lots of wisps.” Designed by Valeria Kuzminska of Ukraine.
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Fractal February “This abstract piece of art was created using a single shape, a triangle. If you look close enough, you’ll notice that everything is made up of the same triangle, though in different sizes and orientations (this is called fractal art). The main motivation was to see that how a single simple shape like a triangle can almost magically generate beautiful-looking compositions.” Designed by Aakash Goel of India.
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Mesmerize “This image is an attempt to express freedom, joy, light…” Designed by David Gheorghita of Romania.
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Retro Wash “I enjoyed your article celebrating vintage and retro design, especially Andy Gilmore’s. Inspired by that, I created a wallpaper similar in vein but with my own spin, keeping in mind its purpose for desktop use. It even highlights everyone’s favorite holiday: Singles’ Awareness Day. ” Designed by William Law of United Kingdom.
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February Love “When people think February, a lot will think of love. I wanted to do something that would go along with that idea, and that is where I got the heart idea. I also like to work with a lot of bright colors, so I decided to use watercolor brushes and blend as many bright colors together as I could. I also highlighted the 14th in red to represent one of the most popular days in February.” Designed by Anthony Nguyen of Pennsylvania, USA.
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Minimal Month “Minimal calendar for the month of February 2009, to be used for 28 days only.” Designed by Tom Johnson of England.
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The Shortest Month “February is the shortest month of the year, so why not line ‘em up and show that, using colors to represent the months and some simple typography to get the whole point across. Look out for the 14th, folks.” Designed by Liam J Moore.
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Comic Sans “This is a simple wallpaper, with humor. The inspiration behind the design is from the group on Facebook (which everybody should be a member of): ‘You know you’re a graphic designer when…’” Designed by Håvard Bergersen of Norway.
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Valentine’s Day febrUary “This is a huge heart pattern with a groovy retro calendar to complement the round design elements. Patterns just look so good when they’re broken and destroyed.” Designed by Jonathan Haggard of the USA.
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Valentine’s februum “This is basically an abstract kind of wallpaper, which includes the essence of love we feel in the month of Valentine. Kind of a different approach for the Valentine’s theme, with the combination of different colors and abstract art.” Designed by Shashank Goswami of India.
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Face Your Fading World “‘Face Your Fading World’ features the world falling apart and floating away, back to where it came from, outer space! The illustration was created from photos that were heavily manipulated in various ways. Let us all take an extra lover on Valentine’s Day (and beyond): our planet :)” Designed by Sietse Visser of The Netherlands.
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Fuck Mac “Here is my contribution to the wallpaper/calendar collection. I got inspired by a piece of work of Alexander Kaiser. I thougt it was really funny, so I followed his idea, and, well, this is what came out. I’m planning to do a whole series of these wallpapers, so expect more in future. The wallpaper itself is quite simple. For those of you who don’t know what the red thingy is, go to Amazon (or any other store) and purchase the DVD of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Designed by Tim Jäger of Munich, Germany.
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Streakin’ Designed by Oliver Twardowski of Bonn, Germany.
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Full Moon “The design is inspired by the lunar cycle and the fact that February is the only month that can pass without a full moon. This year, however, we do have one, and it appears on February 9th, which I have indicated in the design. Keep a look-out.” Designed by Mark Kirwan of England.
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Sparkle “I wanted to create something illuminating and warm for this dark time of year.” Designed by Antti Lehtinen of Finland.
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Dark Spring “The inspiration behind this wallpaper is very simple: there is something in the trees. Created with a free vector pack that you featured last month, it’s my first submission ever and I still have a lot to learn.” Designed by Christian Benstein of Holland.
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The Trees “By showing the man in the form of a tree, I want to show that trees have lives just like us. I want to send the message that human beings should stop ‘murdering’ trees, because at the end of the day, by taking away the precious lives of these trees, human beings themselves are going to pay the price. In fact, we should appreciate the lives of these trees because they give our life to us.” Designed by Kasra Safavinia of Germany.
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Alien Party “Imagine aliens come to the Earth for their weekend party! How would you picture it? Software used to create this scene were Zbrush, 3D Max and Photoshop CS3.” Designed by Kasra Safavinia.
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Splashing 2D “This is what I do for fun: splash paint on patterns I design. Hope you like it!” Designed by Lukasz Tomasz Rozanski of Opole, Poland.
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FEBulous Fire Designed by Reon Viljoen.
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The Heart Month “My work is of a heart, just because February is the month of the lovers. I used a bar code because it identifies things, and I mixed both to represent love and its identification. I used stars with light to represent the magic that love is.” Designed by Ana Fernandes of Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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Romantic February 2009 Calendar “For a warm holiday atmosphere, we have designed a romantic calendar in the Valentine’s Day spirit.” Designed by AdobeTutorialz of the USA.
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Carnival Mask “This is my work for February because it is the month of carnival. Because of that, I used a mask and elements to recall the fantasy, the fairy and lights.” Designed by Ana Fernandes of Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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Welcome “My first wallpaper. Welcome, February. Nice to meet you!” Designed by Benoît “LeBen” Burgener of Switzerland.
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28 Days Designed by K. Rutten of Belgium.
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My Valentine “Happy Valentine’s Day in the year of ox!” Designed by Eloise Ha of Malaysia.
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Cold Isometric “The wallpaper reflects how February is a cold and monotonous month. The shapes breaking off of the ‘Feb 09′ become more abstract the farther they get from the text. ” Designed by Kris Kouba.
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Orange Cross “I found that link to your contest on Twitter, so I thought, ‘Let’s make a calendar,’ and after an hour I finished one.” Designed by Wieso Anders of Carinthia, Austria.
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Love “When I think of February, my mind fills with hearts and the color red, because February is famous for love.” Designed by Maya Sivalingam of Sri Lanka.
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Mended heart “The wallpaper has a clean style with much negative space and is inspired by February and Valentine’s Day, with a broken heart mended by love.” Designed by Aaron L. of Ontario, Canada.
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Freddygirl “I thought you would probably gets lots of ‘Valentine’ submissions. Instead of going that route, I chose a strong black floral graphic, complemented by a mix-’n'-match typographic treatment for the month’s name. Enjoy!” Designed by Michelle Cormack.
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Not Happy Valentine “‘Not Happy Valentine’ is the downside of the February 14, when everything is hearts and love. Unfortunately, that day is painful for many people because of the trade. I recalled the frantic search for her elsewhere.” Designed by Diego of Argentina.
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Scratchy Desk “By trade I do 3D animation, but I have a traditional 2D background, and I know good art comes from fresh ideas. I wanted to do something different with this piece and do some digital graffiti on a wooden desktop. I set about trying to make my love-filled doodles and text-scratchy goodness look like it was done either with blue biro, red biro or plain scratches. I would love to make an animation out of this!” Designed by Daniel Sweeney of England.
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Recycled Air Designed by Bruno Fujii.
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California Dusk Designed by Laura Moloney of Ireland.
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Love’s in February “February is all about love. Let’s share that love around the world. Love might hurt, love is sometimes hard, love is a heart, love is wanting to be heard and love is on earth.” Designed by Putri Regina (a.k.a Pu3W1tCh) of Indonesia.
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February Choco “This one is more of a chocolate theme, in which lovers show their love to each other while presenting chocolate. :)” Designed by Shashank Goswami of India.
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Global Hearts “I was inspired seeing how many different countries visitors to my website are from, which made me think of adding other languages to the wallpaper.” Designed by Seth Nickeson of the USA.
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Art “This is not a night scene. I did this artwork on the spot in the morning. I used black-colored paper and white pencil. I tried to show the dramatic effect of light with black and white, with an old building as the subject.” Designed by Girish Chaudhary of India.
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Diary Designed by Patricia Montero de Cabana.
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Your Last Chance: Join In Next Month! We respect the ideas and motivations behind an artist’s work, which is why we give artists full freedom to explore their creativity and express their emotions and experiences through their work. The designs of these wallpapers weren’t in any way influenced by us, but rather were created from scratch by the artists themselves. Thanks to all the designers for participating. Join in next month (please note that it’s your last chance to feature your desktop wallpaper on Smashing Magazine)! And have a smashing February, folks! (al)
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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 2009
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/30/desktop-wallpaper-calendar-february-2009/
Next month is the last month in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. In February, you’ll have one last chance to showcase your work by designing a desktop wallpaper calendar for Smashing Magazine. But don’t worry, we have a number of new contests coming up, so it will be worth staying in touch! Wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use one wallpaper for a long time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration from it. That’s why we decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers to cover 12 months. And to make them a little more distinctive than the usual fare, we decided to embed calendars for each month. If you need to look up a date, isn’t it better to show off nice wallpaper with a nice calendar, instead of launching your default time application? This post features 70 (!) free desktop wallpapers for February 2009, created by designers across the globe. Every wallpaper can be downloaded for free and comes in two versions: one with a calendar and one without. Please note:
All images are linked to a 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 feature on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?
This month, we’ve been literally smashed by the explosion of your desktop wallpaper calendars. So look out, February 2009, we’re coming! Moon Dreams “Here is my moon schedule calendar for February 2009. A moon phase for every day, because since ancient times people have always known about the moon cycle and how it affects human behavior. When the moon is full or new, people can be extremely sensitive and show some big changes in their mood and behavior. That is why I wanted to create something fun and useful at the same time. I called it “Moon Dreams.’” Designed by Yana Foltice.
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Love Knows No Boundaries Designed by Vlad Gerasimov.
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Color Moods “Colors, elements and textures. Happy and cool. Bold and delicate. Sometimes, they’re all you need to change your mood. Besides, spring is just a few days away. Enjoy!” Designed by Maya Lavda from Ideaspot, Greece.
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Feeling warm “This is more like a welcoming spring than a celebrating winter wallpaper… Feeling warm, yet? Don’t worry, it’s coming.” Designed by Kalina Georgieva of Bulgaria.
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Dragon Photograph Designed by Marcin Kumorek of Krakow, Poland.
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Love Hurts “The motivation for this is the moment one realizes that love’s prison has no other escape than pain. Does that sound like I think love stinks? Good… it does.” Designed by Don Giannatti of Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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Simply Gorgeous “Rather than taking the clichéd route of a Valentine’s Day theme, I went with something a bit more different. My original intent was to show something unique but bring in some colors that reflected the romantic essence of February. Kudos to artists like Chuck Anderson and Pete Harrison for the continued inspiration.” Designed by Umer Tahir of Calgary, Canada.
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River Dawn “My entry is a photograph of the River Adur, near my home, and was taken just after dawn in the middle of winter. I love the blue and orange contrasting colors, and having it on my desktop in the warm reminds me to acclimatize my cameras to the cold before I venture outside.” Designed by Irving Bartlett of United Kingdom.
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I Love You More than My Laptop “February is hearts month, and in celebrating upcoming Valentine’s Day, I came up with a theme with my own Mascot telling someone that ‘I love you more than my laptop.’ Am I sweet? :)” Designed by Ronald Bien Punla of Philippines.
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Other Lands “These ‘Other Lands’ are those inside us, the ones we dwell in — or promise ourselves to reach someday — believing that we know and rule them, despite their inhospitable conditions and unpredictable climate.” Designed by Laura Racero of Madrid, Spain.
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Winter Bug 2009 “Last night, I was on my ‘night photography walk,’ and I saw this old VW Beetle and said to myself, ‘That car has not been driven for decades, but I’ll use my camera to drive it through cyberspace.’” Designed by Dejan Cirovic of Serbia.
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Purification “The work was inspired by the etymology of the word ‘February’ and old customs related to this month. ‘February’ comes from the Latin term februum, which means purification, and it is a feature of many religions.” Designed by Bojan Ilic of Serbia.
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Simple, Clear and Cold “A bit of Swiss-style graphic design here. Simple, clear and cold. This one is pretty pointless without all the numbers (2, 9), so the version without the calendar is not provided. Sorry for that.” Designed by Serhiy of Ukraine.
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Winter Sun “On one of my trips back home to southern Germany I was out in the countryside on a beautiful sunny late winter day. The landscape was just magnificent, with the sparkling snow in the mid-day sun. I took the picture with my digital camera when the horse appeared because it really shows how small we are in proportion to these majestic mountains. From the picture, I created the artwork for the desktop. Hope you all enjoy! ” Designed by Brigitte DiBenedetto of USA and Germany.
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Rosso Alfa “This is our proposal for the February desktop calendar. It is photography-based and features a superb red Alfa GTV on a beautiful sightseeing trip of Brasov, Romania. The motivation behind the design is in fact the birth of the Romanian Alfa Club Association, which was celebrated by a printed wall calendar featuring the most import cars from the community. Every month, we decided to also do a digital version of the calendar.” Designed by Stroe Alexandru and Marius Dumitru from Romania.
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Waiting for the Spring “It’s still winter here in the Netherlands, but spring is in sight.” Designed by Edwin Duinkerken of The Netherlands.
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Cats Designed by Jana Jelovac of Belgrade, Serbia.
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Calligraphy “Inspired by the Chinese New Year last month, I wanted to incorporate Chinese calligraphy into my design.” Designed by David Sutoyo of the USA.
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Fighting for Spring “Where I live, February marks the month that the gloom of winter begins to dissipate, and the tiny buds of spring begin to peek out here and there. So… this is February, as I see it. ” Designed by Shannah Smith of Georgia, USA.
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My Summer “I’m a designer from Perú (in South America). As you know, here in the southern hemisphere, it’s summer. We also have here in Perú the the best waves and beaches to surf and our own Surf World Champion: Sofia Mulanovich. So, I take that for inspiration. I think your southern-hemisphere readers will feel at home with my summer wallpaper calendar.” Designed by Heldrik Lynch of Perú.
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The Month of Love Designed by Alex ElChehimi of Montreal, Canada.
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Tormentas “I often look at Creative Commons images on Flickr for inspiration. These two (tormentas de verano and a woman, a boy, and a toy monkey) were two I was playing with and suddenly thought of combining. I always like adding a little color to black amp, white or sepia, and I also try to find interesting color combinations. ” Designed by Seth Nickeson of the USA.
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Saint Valentines Day “”Valentine’s Day, or Saint Valentine’s Day, is a holiday celebrated on February 14. When I think of February, love, hearts and images of happiness come to my mind. This happiness is the one I wanted to express in the calendar.” Designed by PhotoshopTutorials of the USA.
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Winter Frosty Leave Designed by Sandie Sørensen. Yes, that is a typo on the wallpaper.
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Sheep “My motivation was quite straightforward: needed to take a break and saw tweet about upcoming deadline for February ‘09 calendar wallpaper.” Designed by Lukasz Tyrala of Poland.
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Love “This wallpaper features one of my photos, inspired by the Valentine’s Day. I took the photo to show that love is everywhere; sometimes it hides, but it always surrounds you.” Designed by Travis Person of the USA.
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Wisp “Here is a fairy-tale castle in a bog, guarded by lots of wisps.” Designed by Valeria Kuzminska of Ukraine.
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Fractal February “This abstract piece of art was created using a single shape, a triangle. If you look close enough, you’ll notice that everything is made up of the same triangle, though in different sizes and orientations (this is called fractal art). The main motivation was to see that how a single simple shape like a triangle can almost magically generate beautiful-looking compositions.” Designed by Aakash Goel of India.
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Mesmerize “This image is an attempt to express freedom, joy, light…” Designed by David Gheorghita of Romania.
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Retro Wash “I enjoyed your article celebrating vintage and retro design, especially Andy Gilmore’s. Inspired by that, I created a wallpaper similar in vein but with my own spin, keeping in mind its purpose for desktop use. It even highlights everyone’s favorite holiday: Singles’ Awareness Day. ” Designed by William Law of United Kingdom.
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February Love “When people think February, a lot will think of love. I wanted to do something that would go along with that idea, and that is where I got the heart idea. I also like to work with a lot of bright colors, so I decided to use watercolor brushes and blend as many bright colors together as I could. I also highlighted the 14th in red to represent one of the most popular days in February.” Designed by Anthony Nguyen of Pennsylvania, USA.
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Minimal Month “Minimal calendar for the month of February 2009, to be used for 28 days only.” Designed by Tom Johnson of England.
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The Shortest Month “February is the shortest month of the year, so why not line ‘em up and show that, using colors to represent the months and some simple typography to get the whole point across. Look out for the 14th, folks.” Designed by Liam J Moore.
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Comic Sans “This is a simple wallpaper, with humor. The inspiration behind the design is from the group on Facebook (which everybody should be a member of): ‘You know you’re a graphic designer when…’” Designed by Håvard Bergersen of Norway.
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Valentine’s Day febrUary “This is a huge heart pattern with a groovy retro calendar to complement the round design elements. Patterns just look so good when they’re broken and destroyed.” Designed by Jonathan Haggard of the USA.
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Valentine’s februum “This is basically an abstract kind of wallpaper, which includes the essence of love we feel in the month of Valentine. Kind of a different approach for the Valentine’s theme, with the combination of different colors and abstract art.” Designed by Shashank Goswami of India.
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Face Your Fading World “‘Face Your Fading World’ features the world falling apart and floating away, back to where it came from, outer space! The illustration was created from photos that were heavily manipulated in various ways. Let us all take an extra lover on Valentine’s Day (and beyond): our planet :)” Designed by Sietse Visser of The Netherlands.
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Fuck Mac “Here is my contribution to the wallpaper/calendar collection. I got inspired by a piece of work of Alexander Kaiser. I thougt it was really funny, so I followed his idea, and, well, this is what came out. I’m planning to do a whole series of these wallpapers, so expect more in future. The wallpaper itself is quite simple. For those of you who don’t know what the red thingy is, go to Amazon (or any other store) and purchase the DVD of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Designed by Tim Jäger of Munich, Germany.
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Streakin’ Designed by Oliver Twardowski of Bonn, Germany.
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Full Moon “The design is inspired by the lunar cycle and the fact that February is the only month that can pass without a full moon. This year, however, we do have one, and it appears on February 9th, which I have indicated in the design. Keep a look-out.” Designed by Mark Kirwan of England.
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Sparkle “I wanted to create something illuminating and warm for this dark time of year.” Designed by Antti Lehtinen of Finland.
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Dark Spring “The inspiration behind this wallpaper is very simple: there is something in the trees. Created with a free vector pack that you featured last month, it’s my first submission ever and I still have a lot to learn.” Designed by Christian Benstein of Holland.
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The Trees “By showing the man in the form of a tree, I want to show that trees have lives just like us. I want to send the message that human beings should stop ‘murdering’ trees, because at the end of the day, by taking away the precious lives of these trees, human beings themselves are going to pay the price. In fact, we should appreciate the lives of these trees because they give our life to us.” Designed by Kasra Safavinia of Germany.
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Alien Party “Imagine aliens come to the Earth for their weekend party! How would you picture it? Software used to create this scene were Zbrush, 3D Max and Photoshop CS3.” Designed by Kasra Safavinia.
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Splashing 2D “This is what I do for fun: splash paint on patterns I design. Hope you like it!” Designed by Lukasz Tomasz Rozanski of Opole, Poland.
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FEBulous Fire Designed by Reon Viljoen.
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The Heart Month “My work is of a heart, just because February is the month of the lovers. I used a bar code because it identifies things, and I mixed both to represent love and its identification. I used stars with light to represent the magic that love is.” Designed by Ana Fernandes of Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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Romantic February 2009 Calendar “For a warm holiday atmosphere, we have designed a romantic calendar in the Valentine’s Day spirit.” Designed by AdobeTutorialz of the USA.
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Carnival Mask “This is my work for February because it is the month of carnival. Because of that, I used a mask and elements to recall the fantasy, the fairy and lights.” Designed by Ana Fernandes of Castelo Branco, Portugal.
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Welcome “My first wallpaper. Welcome, February. Nice to meet you!” Designed by Benoît “LeBen” Burgener of Switzerland.
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28 Days Designed by K. Rutten of Belgium.
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My Valentine “Happy Valentine’s Day in the year of ox!” Designed by Eloise Ha of Malaysia.
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Cold Isometric “The wallpaper reflects how February is a cold and monotonous month. The shapes breaking off of the ‘Feb 09′ become more abstract the farther they get from the text. ” Designed by Kris Kouba.
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Orange Cross “I found that link to your contest on Twitter, so I thought, ‘Let’s make a calendar,’ and after an hour I finished one.” Designed by Wieso Anders of Carinthia, Austria.
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Love “When I think of February, my mind fills with hearts and the color red, because February is famous for love.” Designed by Maya Sivalingam of Sri Lanka.
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Mended heart “The wallpaper has a clean style with much negative space and is inspired by February and Valentine’s Day, with a broken heart mended by love.” Designed by Aaron L. of Ontario, Canada.
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Freddygirl “I thought you would probably gets lots of ‘Valentine’ submissions. Instead of going that route, I chose a strong black floral graphic, complemented by a mix-’n'-match typographic treatment for the month’s name. Enjoy!” Designed by Michelle Cormack.
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Not Happy Valentine “‘Not Happy Valentine’ is the downside of the February 14, when everything is hearts and love. Unfortunately, that day is painful for many people because of the trade. I recalled the frantic search for her elsewhere.” Designed by Diego of Argentina.
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Scratchy Desk “By trade I do 3D animation, but I have a traditional 2D background, and I know good art comes from fresh ideas. I wanted to do something different with this piece and do some digital graffiti on a wooden desktop. I set about trying to make my love-filled doodles and text-scratchy goodness look like it was done either with blue biro, red biro or plain scratches. I would love to make an animation out of this!” Designed by Daniel Sweeney of England.
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Recycled Air Designed by Bruno Fujii.
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California Dusk Designed by Laura Moloney of Ireland.
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Love’s in February “February is all about love. Let’s share that love around the world. Love might hurt, love is sometimes hard, love is a heart, love is wanting to be heard and love is on earth.” Designed by Putri Regina (a.k.a Pu3W1tCh) of Indonesia.
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February Choco “This one is more of a chocolate theme, in which lovers show their love to each other while presenting chocolate. :)” Designed by Shashank Goswami of India.
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Global Hearts “I was inspired seeing how many different countries visitors to my website are from, which made me think of adding other languages to the wallpaper.” Designed by Seth Nickeson of the USA.
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Art “This is not a night scene. I did this artwork on the spot in the morning. I used black-colored paper and white pencil. I tried to show the dramatic effect of light with black and white, with an old building as the subject.” Designed by Girish Chaudhary of India.
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Diary Designed by Patricia Montero de Cabana.
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Your Last Chance: Join In Next Month! We respect the ideas and motivations behind an artist’s work, which is why we give artists full freedom to explore their creativity and express their emotions and experiences through their work. The designs of these wallpapers weren’t in any way influenced by us, but rather were created from scratch by the artists themselves. Thanks to all the designers for participating. Join in next month (please note that it’s your last chance to feature your desktop wallpaper on Smashing Magazine)! And have a smashing February, folks! (al)
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