Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 15

March 8, 2012 at 8:24 pm

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

Robin’s Egg Blue

I want­ed some­thing with a lit­tle spring in its step. Here in Alabama, one of the first signs of Spring is the robin with its col­or­ful chest and iden­ti­fi­able eggs. I used those remark­able col­ors to put togeth­er this wall­pa­per with help from wood tex­tures from Bittbox. I also want­ed a phrase — kind of like “April show­ers bring May flow­ers.” — which I set in Anodyne.

Robin's Egg Blue Wallpaper Preview - March into Spring with Wood Texture and a Pencil Sketched Robin

Robin’s Egg Blue Wallpaper Preview

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Hard Drive Blueprint

For some rea­son this idea popped into my head the other day, and it actu­al­ly worked out bet­ter than I thought. It took a bit of play­ing around in Photoshop to get the orig­i­nal full color scan to be the right color and have the right trans­paren­cy and blend­ing, but as you can see it worked out. With a lit­tle back­ground and a lit­tle scruff for char­ac­ter, you have a nice, slight­ly technical-looking wall­pa­per that would look good on any IT expert or archi­tec­tur­al com­put­er screen.

Hard Drive Blueprint Wallpaper Preview

Hard Drive Blueprint Wallpaper Preview

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