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Free Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 2011
- 02/01/11
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This may be the strangest memory of my entire childhood: at some point I acted in a class play in which I played the role of February. Yes, February. I was a whiny little month, complaining that I was the shortest month and also the one that no one likes because the weather always stinks. I don’t remember how the play ended. Actually, I don’t remember if I had the audience eating out of my hand or if I stank it up. I probably stank it up.
The fact is that February just isn’t the best month—it’s that one between the start of a new year and the start of Spring. But you know what will help brighten it a little bit? Some amazing desktop wallpaper. And so I asked a whole lot of graphic designers if they would like to come up with wallpaper that is appropriate for the month. And now it’s free for you to download.
So go ahead—brighten up your month and download some great wallpaper.
A few notes: 320 x 480 is for your iPhone; 1024 x 1024 is for your iPad; your desktop or laptop may take any of the other sizes depending on your monitor size and a host of other considerations. You may need to ask your computer-whiz nephew to help you figure out the one that’s best.
See the Love
Created by Daniel Spencer.
- with calendar: without calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1366x768, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
Those Who Have Faith
Created by Chelms Varthoumlien.
Love Never Fails
Designed by Eric Novak.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
The Month of Love
Designed by Jon Kenney.
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
My Heart Was Thrilled
Created by Ethan Smith.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
God So Loved
Created by Shannon Brown.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440, 2560x1600
Greater Love
Created by Shannon Brown.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440, 2560x1600
Snow Like Wool
Created by Michael Davenport.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
He First Loved
Created by Aaron Wilson.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
February
Created by Ryan Harrison.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
The Heart of February
Created by Ryan Harrison.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
John Piper
Created by Chris Borah.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440, 2560x1600
- without calendar: 320x480
No Temptation
Created by Jonathan Gilson.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200
- without calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1440x900, 1600x1200
Every Deed and Word
Created by Rina Kroes.
- with calendar: 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024
Hearts
Created by Anna Cirlot.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024
Winter
Created by Josh Mandell.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
Greater Love (2)
Created by Jon Stephenson.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024
All Things New
Created by Micah Sewell.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200
- without calendar: 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200
Desires of Your Heart
Created by Micah Sewell.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200
- without calendar: 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200
I Am
Created by Jeff Nine.
- with calendar: 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
- without calendar: 320x480, 1024x768, 1024x1024, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1440
Thanks to all of this month’s designers! We’ll be back in March, and this will be even bigger and better. If you are an artist, photographer or graphic designer and would like to participate next month, just go ahead and contact me and I’ll tell you all you need to know.
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Comments (20)
These are great. The Song of Solomon 6:3 one is certainly an interesting one… ;)
These are so wonderful! Thank you!
I’m glad to have some scripturally focused wallpapers to choose from—these are beautiful. But is there a chance that smashing mag might be the teensiest bit upset that you took their idea & won’t be sending traffic their way anymore?
I love the Those Who Have Faith and Love Never Fails. You guys are brilliant. Oh, and the John Piper one made me smile a bunch. I could see a whole wall calendar coming out of that. A bunch of famous preachers or even just John Piper would be funny.
When I was in the first grade, I was caused to be Columbus in a school play. It ruined my life. Every bad thing that has happened since can be traced to that ;)
Thanks for sharing these with us. Having a hard time choosing which one.
Yes February weather is not very nice… day 1 was 35C and more to come!
Cat 5 cyclone bearing down on Qld: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201102/r711310_5563103.jpg
Up to 300kph winds! http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/yasi-upgraded-to-a-category-fi…
Those Who Have Faith. Favorite.
Thank you for these! :)
Thank you for this February gift! I think I will be changing my wallpaper this month quite often :)
these are wonderful!! can we do this every month?
These were so neat. I have one on my desktop right now. Thanks so much for this. I’m not the biggest fan of Valentine’s Day, thus not the biggest fan of February, but to open my computer and see the image every day about the love God has for us during this time, helps put things in perspective.
Very lovely, all of them. Thank you.
Tip: If you’re on Windows 7 you can set up lots of wallpapers and have your computer automatically switch them every 30 minutes (or however long you want).
I don’t think Smashing Magazine will notice much difference, as big a blog as Challies is.
Request: could the wallpaper files have better names? When you download them they are simply ‘resolution.jpg’. It would be helpful if they were, say, 2011feb01-1680x1050.jpg so that I could archive easier - thanks.
Thanks for all the kind comments.
I do intend to do this over the next few months. It was a wee bit more work than I thought it would be and it caused my server to crash. But beyond that, I love it. So yeah, we’ll try it again. :)
The reference on the Song of Solomon is wrong? It is supposed to be 5:4.
Thank you!!! I love the wallpaper.
I love the third one so much, but after 2 days with it on my background the typo in it is driving me bananas!
Where is the typo?
You’re right, Carlos. I was going back and forth between doing a 5:4 design and a 6:3 design. I decided on the 5:4 design but forgot to change the reference. Good spot.
I will have more time to do the design this month, so hopefully there will be no more incorrect references!
Thank you! I’ve always just set my desktop background to something pretty, and left it at that. But now I can have something pretty AND a Scripture to meditate on…great!