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The Desktop Wallpaper Project featuring Spike Press

This week’s desktop wallpaper is a gem that I’ve been holding on to for a while, way too long in fact, but sometimes I need to save some of these for a while to surprise you all. The wallpaper was designed by John Solimine, who some of you may know better as the guy behind Spike Press. John is an amazing illustrator and does some of the best concert posters out there.

His wallpaper features some cosmonauts obviously getting ready to blast off into space. John was stoked to be able to do a full color illustration cuz’ most of the time he has to stick to 3 or 4 colors for the posters he does. This looks like a kind of cartoon from the 70′s where you’d get an explanation of what NASA does and the astronauts would talk about what they do.

Bobby

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Bobby Solomon

August 27, 2009 - See more posts by Bobby

The Desktop Wallpaper Project featuring Cole Gerst

Cole Gerst

Good Wednesday everyone! Sorry things have been quiet for a few days, I’ve been getting ready to take a trip up to Santa Cruz and San Francisco with the boyfriend for the week. Thus, ducks had to be put in a row and things needed tidying up. But, there are lots of fun things still going on, like the awesome Cole Gerst doing this weeks desktop wallpaper. Growing up in Georgia, he studied art at the Atlanta College of Art and eventually moving out to LA. Funny enough, he lives about 15 blocks away from me!

I spotted the piece above on Cole’s site and I thought it was such a rad image, and that it would make such a great wallpaper. There are so many great little details in this wallpaper, and the color is so vibrant and warming, kind of like a summers sunset.

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Bobby Solomon

August 12, 2009 - See more posts by Bobby

The Desktop Wallpaper Project featuring Will Hibberd

Name: Will Hibberd
Degree/College: Graphic Design and Production BA (hons) Plymouth College of Art
Website: www.williamhibberd.co.uk

About Your Wallpaper:
I found it hard having a free reign over the design of this wallpaper, I am usually either doing doodle like illustrations for fun or designing for specific needs, but this opportunity gave me some freedom. I knew I would like the freedom but it was hard to stick with one idea. also I didn’t want to doodle for once! This wallpaper is a mixture of what i find appealing at the moment. Circles (which are not perfectly round) Bitmap imagining especially the cross type, and courier new italic, as well as purple, yellow and blue.

Bobby

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Bobby Solomon

July 29, 2009 - See more posts by Bobby

The Desktop Wallpaper featuring Tom Keegan

Tom Keegan

Name: Tom Keegan
Degree/College: Level 1 Illustration at University of Portsmouth
Website: www.tkillustration.co.uk

About Your Wallpaper:
Ducks and dogs, lines and colours, spray paint, pens and Mac.
Although I’ve only just finished my first year studying illustration, I’m constantly on the search for new ideas and ways of expressing my creativity through lines, shapes and colours. It’s so cool to be apart of just us collective & I hope in time I can build upon my style to be up to the same standard of some of the amazing work I share the site with.

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Bobby Solomon

July 28, 2009 - See more posts by Bobby

The Desktop Wallpaper Project featuring Drew Turner

Name: Drew Turner
Degree/College: Graphic Design / BA Hons / Plymouth College of Art.
Website: www.drewturner.co.uk

About Your Wallpaper:
space, lazers, stars, triangles, reflection, refraction, galaxy, animals, spaceships, starfights, rockets, purple, clouds, cosmos, mirrors, glass, smoke, magic, illusion, deception, confusion, nebula, planets, distance, time, numbers, infinity, electricity, lightning, explosions, implosions, motion, speed, blur, frozen, liquid, flow, dimentions, mathematics, everton, error. restart.

Bobby

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Bobby Solomon

July 23, 2009 - See more posts by Bobby