I’m here tonight to let you in on a little secret: my top favourite wallpaper sites. Yep, the ones where I get most of my laptop coolness. Prepare yourself ’cause these bad boys will rock your Start Menu Gnome Thingy Dock! And here they are, by inverted order of preference:
Crafted by a fellow Portuguese man, this community monetarily rewards artists who send in wallpapers alongside an optional tutorial related to it. It is a new and great initiative that brings in tons of good wallpapers. If you think you have what it takes, submit your own!
Also from Portugal comes Random Wallpapers, which simply is a feed of very nice wallpapers. It was advertised earlier this week on Paintbits, a personal favourite blog on digital arts.
This guy and his camera… he astonishes me every time with hi-res wallpapers, almost all of them dedicated to a multi-monitor setup. The wallpapers come in a variety of resolutions to everyone’s comfort. Some really nice paintings also show up, from now and then.
Gosh. If only I could express the quality of these wallpapers using words. You’ll just have to check it out yourself. Kitsune Noir is the personal blog of Bobby Solomon, designer. Which I admired before for his work and now even more for having pretty much the same tastes as I do in things like movies, music and food.
Last year Bobby made a tribute to Radiohead’s career by creating a wallpaper for each of the band’s albums, commemorating the launch of their latest album. The result came out excelent. And based off this, he started The Desktop Wallpaper Project in which he invites his favourite artists to present a wallpaper every Wednesday morning until, Flying Spaghetti Monster forbid, the wallpapers run out!
Be sure not to miss his wonderful mixtapes!