Comments on: Nature's Design on Your Desktop

Nature's Design on Your Desktop

netbros — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:01:21 -0800

Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer, so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors. At their best, desktop wallpapers bring animation to often lifeless computer screens, reflecting the personality of the user and acting as a calling card for creative talent. The Desktopography Project first arrived in 2005 as a place to download nature / topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers. They have just released their 2008 library.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:04:16 -0800

Of course, if you can see your desktop, you probably aren't doing any work on your computer

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:10:42 -0800

I use the "Solid Gray Dark" background on OS X. Everything else is brightly colored, so I like the background to be a background.

By: null terminated

null terminated — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:15:28 -0800

I set my desktop to be transparent, so I can see what's going on behind my computer.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:17:50 -0800

It doesn't matter how good the desktop is, I'm still not voting for it.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:19:57 -0800

Good lord, are you high? What makes you think I the most appealing wallpaper for me would be nature? I have a very small one of my kid, but before I had her it was other inspirational buildings or designs, also small, so that the whole thing would be tidy. The Desktopography images are hideous, they would destroy my career, send me into coniptions, and my colleagues would lose all respect for me. And what the fuck do flying white boxes have to do with "nature" anyway? Or to put it more succinctly, my eyes, my eyes!

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:25:17 -0800

myhdwallpaper.com

By: Powerful Religious Baby

Powerful Religious Baby — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:28:55 -0800

MOTHER NATURE IS ROOFIED AND NUDE

By: DU

DU — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:29:55 -0800

What makes you think I the most appealing wallpaper for me would be nature? To get inspiration from the Ultimate Intelligent Designer. Our Lord Jes....oh man, I can't do this. Wait...this "project" is a store? Pepsi Lame.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:43:46 -0800

DU nailed it.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:03:27 -0800

Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer Only the grunts.

By: knave

knave — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:27:44 -0800

LOL

By: Help, I can't stop talking!

Help, I can't stop talking! — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:32:10 -0800

Hideous grammar never go's out of style.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:34:03 -0800

WHAT Y'know, if you're a professional designer, and cannot design a desktop wallpaper image better than these, you are not a very good designer. In fact, you should perhaps consider a career in hotel management or real estate.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:52:06 -0800

I find this more relaxing.

By: ssg

ssg — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:53:32 -0800

Wait...this "project" is a store? Pepsi Lame. As far as I can tell, the only thing they are selling is a compilation CD. The images are free. I do think these would be a lot better when one is high.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:10:37 -0800

I do think these would be a lot better when one is high. Now that you mention it, this does seem like something I would need a bong in the shape of a wizard to understand.

By: Lazlo

Lazlo — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:46:06 -0800

Yeaaaaah, I think I'll just stick to my reworked album cover scans, thanks.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:25:52 -0800

I like my nature without corny computer graphics superimposed on it.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:50:33 -0800

I use the "Solid Gray Dark" background on OS X. I use the Medium. I used to do a lot of color correction, and anything else throws off the color perception. 'Course, I haven't actually seen the Desktop since the last time I wiped the drive and reinstalled the OS...

By: efbrazil

efbrazil — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:02:29 -0800

This commentary is far too harsh. The pics were an amusing diversion with the kids. The pics are good fun as far as high art goes. I particularly like lush.

By: Lectrick

Lectrick — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:19:32 -0800

Screw manual desktop image management, get Desktoptopia. Cross-platform, and uses images specially selected to tend to not obfuscate icons. Very nice images. You can rate them (which makes them appear more frequently) and advance on a schedule. Free. Very nice!

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:07:20 -0800

I have 14 tabs open in one browser, and 6 in another. I have Photoshop and Illustrator both running. I have Notepad open, WinZip open, three client documents spit between OpenOffice and Word, and an FTP client going. In other words, I am a working designer. I haven't seen my desktop since the last time I rebooted, about three weeks ago. I couldn't even tell you what it looks like without specifically checking. I suspect it's some shade of blue -- possibly #1073AB, colloquially known as Pepsi. Nice desktop wallpaper? Sure. Anything more grandiose than that? No.

By: oxford blue

oxford blue — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:43:53 -0800

Please teach me how to be hard core like you oh busy-one!

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:09:47 -0800

I think you get my point: desktop wallpaper? Who cares? That isn't where design or design inspiration happens.

By: scope the lobe

scope the lobe — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:45:58 -0800

But what if you design desktop wallpapers? (I have a directory folder full of inspirational desktop wallpapers for my macintosh pc!)

By: carbide

carbide — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:00:56 -0800

xmutex: I like my nature without corny computer graphics superimposed on it. Seriously. It's hard to imagine what people who absolutely hated nature would do differently. Simulating it through wallpaper instead of going out for a walk seems like the ultimate in mockery.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:08:20 -0800

On my desktop I stick up something to do with one of my current projects as inspiration. If I want nature I go outside.

By: Xany

Xany — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:16:14 -0800

Er, think I've seen better on DeviantArt.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:18:25 -0800

Could you make the wallpaper bigger?

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:43:26 -0800

Goatse?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:01:16 -0800

Needs more boatses.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:12:59 -0800

I see my wallpaper when I lock my PC, which is pretty much every time I stand up to go anywhere in the office. I used to swap it every month or so, usually seasonally. Then I found a high(ish) definition wallpaper of Shodan from System Shock. This foolish hu-man will never need another wallpaper again.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:25:55 -0800

My wallpaper is a 4 megapixel network map of the internet. Looks like fireworks...

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:46:05 -0800

I used to have the Russian Gasmask Children's Brigade, but lost it in the last confiscation and haven't bothered to find it again.

By: fuq

fuq — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:08:34 -0800

Yo, it's like a Lisa Frank notebook got stapled to the back of my screen! I like it and I don't care what people who use their computer for work think. I don't keep icons on my desktop, I don't have many windows open, and it's summer, so yay.

By: nihraguk

nihraguk — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:12:56 -0800

Some of these are sorta nice. I don't really understand the vehement criticism above. Thanks for posting the link.

By: Lukenlogs

Lukenlogs — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:33:46 -0800

Neat site. Too bad they've got their hand out (but doesn't everyone?). Lush (lady in mtns) is nice. I kinda like the ladies, if ya' KWIM. Most of the time I get my wallpapers off of deviantart.com (Customisation > Wallpapers > HDTV). There still aren't enough widescreen wallpapers out there, IMO. As my GF is out of town right now, I'm going to have a week of Alessandra Ambrosio. Next week it'll go back to just the latest CG-art-scape-ish thingie. I don't see my desktop much either, except on startup & shutdown. Although I do hit the Windows Key + M once in a while when I've got 10 open windows. Supermodels in their underwear helps clear my mind (mostly). Thanks for myhdwallpaper.com Dave F. Somehow I'd missed that one. If I can find a nice ovehead shot of Dallas Drake lifting the Cup, that will prolly be my desktop when the GF gets back into town. Ray Borque raising the Cup was my desktop for a couple of years after the Avs won it. Seriously though, I digress

By: Brocktoon

Brocktoon — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:58:07 -0800

Oh you think YOU'RE hardcore? I currently have suitcase pre-processing 40,000 fonts I just purchased, Acrobat is batch outputting a 12 page brochure with 25 localization versions, Renamer4Mac is renaming 135,000 stock image files and tagging them by color scheme, Illustrator is pathfinder->subtracting 8 150MB+ vector image files at once, FireFox is downloading about 1,000 hi res screen caps from a Croatian video game development house (FTP client? Thpptt! YouSendIt!), Quicken is downloading and reconciling data to my speculative commodities account and.....wait what was this thread about again? I'm just so busy, and so important, I can't be expected to keep track of your silly weblog musings.

By: BinGregory

BinGregory — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:07:48 -0800

I enjoy sowing my seeds in fertile fields wherein they may perchance find purchase as much as the next guy, but that image is just ridiculous. Talk about killing a lovely old metaphor.

By: mmoncur

mmoncur — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:14:42 -0800

These are some of the most ridiculous attempts at art I've ever seen. Even the best examples are just someone spilling "design" over a perfectly good photograph. Let's hope it quickly go's out of style. (Previously linked, but THE HORROR! THE HORROR!)