Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent sourceof inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a longperiod of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’swhy we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12months. And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usualcrowd, we’ve decided to embed calendars for the upcoming month. So ifyou need to look up some date, isn’t it better to show off a nicewallpaper with a nice calendar instead of launching some default timeapplication?

This post features 35 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

The holiday spirit is once again here. Santas, Christmas trees andChristmas balls are once again in fashion… We are once again in searchof items that would uplift the season. For sure most of you will lookfor some Christmas Concept tutorials maybe to create various ofChristmas cards, wallpapers or posters. As our respond to this clamor,we have collected 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for  Christmas Season. Take note of the various techniques that are provided by these tutorials for you may find this tips useful in the future.

Feel free to browse through this article at your leisure. Have fun!

Fashionstatements aside, they do give a slight insight into your personality,your current mood and sets you apart from the crowd.

This article is not a collection of the best designed t-shirts by the best designers, this is a collection of t-shirts especially for designers and developers.

Those poor suffering souls that have to endure the pain and distress of the questions from everyday Joe’s (“you work with a computer, do you? Will you fix mine?”) and have to work with the many pitfalls and perils that the web offers (IE6 and Flash intros).

Yes, this collection is for you!

Below you will see thirty blog designs with creative designs that help them stand out from the crowd. From simple grunge and worn looks to the illustrative works, there are many levels of creative here that I tried to cover. I hope you enjoy the post and you get inspired to make something beautiful afterwards.

Over the last months our readers were complaining about the low quality of wallpapers featured in the Desktop Wallpaper Calendar series here on Smashing Magazine. To keep the very high quality of the competition and motivate artists and designers to put more thoughts and ideas into creating original and beautiful wallpapers, we carefully reviewed our quality guidelines and decided to select featured wallpapers more strictly. Consequently, over 65% of wallpapers submitted to us in November unfortunately didn’t make it to this post.

We may have been a bit too strict or we may have been not strict enough – please let us know what you think and please also let us know how we can improve the quality of this series!

This post features 45 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.