I recently got a drawing tablet, and in learning my way around it, I’ve found that tracing flowers is a great way to improve hand-eye-coordination and learn how to properly apply pressure to vary line width or opacity. As a result I’ve made three flower themed wallpapers: one with a lotus flower, one with a rose and one with both flowers.

I’ve only got 1440×900 versions available right now, because that’s my screensize. If there’s a demand for other sizes, that can be arranged. The wallpapers are all distributed under CC-BY-SA 3.0, and I have included an alternate download that has the gimp files so that you can modify them to taste. Read the rest of this article »

Wordle.net is a free web service that creates word clouds from text that you input. Just like with the oh-so-trendy tag clouds, the size of the individual words change depending on the frequency of the word in the inputted text. There are also multiple configuration options for the alignment of the words, the font to use, and what color scheme to apply.

With the help of that service, I’ve created a Blast from the past themed wallpaper that I figured I’d share here in case anyone is interested. It’s made using a combination of Wordle, Gimp and Photoshop. It’s completely free, and it’s under the Creative Commons license, so you can do pretty much whatever you want with it.

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I’m very interested in the various aspects of design. Because of this, I’ve gathered a rather impressive collection of wallpapers that I think are absolutely stunning. In this post I’m going to share some of the wallpapers that I think are the very best, and explain what I think makes them so special.

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