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

This post features 75 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

Please notice:

• all images can be clicked and lead to the preview of the wallpaper;
• you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?
• You may be interested in the Windows 7 Theme: Desktop Wallpapers September 2010, too.

So what wallpapers have we received for September 2010?

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Tension9

"I made a 9 on the fence with nails and woolen to express the tension. It has come to the ninth month of 2010. Still working hardly and stressfully? Take it easy!" Designed by Ssu-Hua Chen from Australia.

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Autumn Skyview

"Laying on field watching the sky above, leaves are falling, autumn is coming." Designed by Jaro Mlkvy from Slovakia.

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Symbian World

"Scene from Symbian World." Designed by Anna Alfut from UK.

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Melancholic Painting

"September always makes me melancholic, not sure why." Designed by Alex Roman from Romania.

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Autumn Paper

"Autumn is the season that’s most calming to me. Perfect weather, an array of colors, and a great source of inspiration to designers." Designed by Bogdan Lazar from Romania.

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Blue Fall

"A fun and intricate Illustration for the month of September inspired by Canadian scenery and the colors of fall" Designed by Avid Muse Design from Canada.

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Gold autumn

"When the leaves begin to change it means that autumn comes and schoolyear begins." Designed by cheloveche.ru from Russia.

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My Daisy

"Do not under estimated the beauty of a little daisy." Designed by Esther Lau from USA.

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Colourful Relaxation

"A design based on a photograph by Olivia Bell – I ended up altering it a fair bit, but I just loved the original so I wanted to base a design on it. I hope you like it!" Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

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Memorial Tribute

"This wallpaper is a memorial tribute to the heroes of 9-11-2001,remembering the events of that September day and the innocent victims of the whole matter." Designed by Nishith from India.

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Summer’s End

"The Month of Ramadan is a time for many in which we fast, worship, and evaluate ourselves in order to strive to become a better person. Summer came and now it is leaving, the month of Ramadan came and now it is also leaving us and so this design is to show the tranquility, beauty, and spirituality of this month but at the same time show the power of these last ten nights." Designed by Arif Huda (Ihsaan|Fusion) from USA.

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My Chilly Beach

"Although autumn is calling, the beach is still a gorgeous place – even if chilly. Just a little reminder of summer and the fun it has brought – I hope you all have had a lovely summer (or winter for those in Australia etc) and have a wonderful new season, whatever it may be! Happy September :)" Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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Hues of Autumn

"As summer turns to fall, we enjoy watching the colors around us change to beautiful shades of orange. Enjoy this fun wallpaper on your desktop this season!" Designed by thunder::tech from USA.

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Origami flight

"Grab some paper, fold yourself a plane, and take flight!" Designed by Chris Alexander (Yipori) from England.

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Far Far Away

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your OWN sunshine. (Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book)" Designed by Juanita Ooi from London, UK (Originally Malaysia).

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Ending of Summer

"Summer feels like it is truly finishing in the UK, we’ve gone from 20 degree weather to the 12/15′s and have spent an entire week immersed in rain! This photograph was taken during a brief dry spell – I thought it was a good representation of what we’re moving towards? even the grass looks sad!" Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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Wake Me Up

"This is how Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” makes me feel." Designed by Umer Tahir from Canada.

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Love Birds

"Celebrate love and be free. Happy September to everyone!" Designed by Martina Skender from Croatia/Israel.

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The Browser

"Meet the Browser-The Rockstar of the Internet. Preloaded with vibrant colors, he is all ea_rss to the happenings of the world wide web. Ask him about anything and you’ll get a reply, so quick that will make you go-ogling at him. He is the happening cool dude with a goatee in all the chatrooms, forums and social networks. So Click Him! ;)" Designed by Pixel Pundits from India.

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Back To School

Designed by Irene from Spain.

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Wear & Tear

Designed by Christopher Lee from USA.

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The Cobweb Field

"For a week we were immersed in a cloud. You couldn’t see into the distance at all, it was miserable but it did give us a wonderful chance for this photograph. I titled it “The Cobweb Field” as when I looked closer, it was literally covered in them. Quite amazing! Thank you to my models Sasha Bell and Rosanna Bell, without them this photograph would be empty! Enjoy September Smashing Magazine readers! :D" Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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International Day of Peace

"The International Day of Peace, also known as the World Peace Day, occurs annually on September 21. It is dedicated to peace, or specifically the absence of war, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone. It is observed by many nations, political groups, military groups, and peoples. The first year this holiday was celebrated was 1981." Designed by Darshan Kore from India.

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Colorado Wildflowers

Designed by Kari Andresen from USA.

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Victorian newspaper

"I am interested in typography and ornamental Victorian style.I wanted to present this calendar as a Victorian newspaper.Je m’int?resse ? la typographie ornementale et de style Victorienne.J’ai voulu pr?senter ce calendrier comme un journal d’?poque Victorienne." Designed by Sandrine Abraham from Paris, France.

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Earth Wind and Fire September

"I was born a hippie at heart and am completely in love with the old Fillmore posters from the 60s and 70s. Have a happy September with this Fillmore-style illustration featuring the lyrics to Earth Wind & Fire’s song “September.” Look closely into the disco lights for lyrics." Designed by Allison Doty from USA.

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Friends

"Cat and mouse, a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escape. We can do better than that, let’s start this month!" Designed by VCO Studios from The Netherlands.

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Mexico 1810-2010

"Commemorating Mexico’s bicentennial." Designed by Alicia Ramirez from Canada/Mexico.

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Nat 2010

"Nat 2010 stands for Nature 2010. A graphical representation of what nature will become during the start of this years autumn." Designed by Alec Leigh from France.

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Talk like a pirate day

"Ahoy, semptember 19th be th’ speak like a scurvy pirate day. Be a jolly scurvy pirate ‘n on 19th o’ Semptember speak like a scurvy pirate th’ whole day. Gar, Where can I find a bottle o’rum?" Designed by Vladimir Remenar from Croatia.

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Summers End

"Take a look out of my little Forest." Designed by Christopher Krahlisch from Germany.

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Mimimi

"It’s September, the Summer will end nearly? Don’t make Mimimi, and appreciate the last summer days." Designed by Sandra Heinzen from Germany.

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A Tale

"Un poco de fantas’a no le hace mal a nadie :)" Designed by Srpn from Spain.

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Parallel Universe

"The most tolerant ladybug ever :)" Designed by Bruna Šuligoj from Croatia.

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Spring Origami

"Flying origami birds in the spring." Designed by Paula Laneri from Argentina.

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Ramadan Kareem

"I have design this wallpaper for the holy month of Ramadan Kareem." Designed by Waqas Khna from Pakistan.

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Oh Joy

Designed by Valerie Morgan from USA.

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Wet

"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Leaves! Photo by Daniel Furtado." Designed by Wezen Design from Brazil.

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Iran Guilan

"Guilan, is one of the provinces of Iran that have very desirable weather with beautiful nature.It lies along the Caspian Sea. This photo shows one of the beauty of this region." Designed by Arash Zad from IRAN.

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Bridge to reflections

"Autumn is that dreamy time when we remember all the good things happened through the summer." Designed by Jaro Mlkvy from Slovakia.

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Meditation

"We just got back from a camping trip where we spent severaldays in a tent, surrounded by redwood trees. It’s easy to forget there’s aworld outside our computer monitor sometimes, a world with only the noise ofwater dripping onto leaves and gentle breezes, a world that isn’t dividedinto pixels and margins. It’s important, sometimes, to take a step away fromthe blue haze of our monitors and step into the real world just to keep ourown sanity." Designed by Arcane Palette Creative Design from USA.

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Back to School

"When I would get a little bored in class I would doodle these little characters on my notebooks. Now that I am no longer in school, I still find myself doodling whenever I’m brainstorming for a project or need a little break from what I’m working on." Designed by Amy Vitale from Gilbert, AZ USA.

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Wake me up when September… ends

"A little friend hibernating. When the right time comes, he will rise & shine again." Designed by Alecsandru Grigoriu from Romania.

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SeptembARR

"Just a little something for Talk Like a Pirate Day!" Designed by Carly Dybka from Canada.

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Sweet September

"My last September was so sweet with lots of memories with my best friend. So i decided to design a wallpaper for her. And here it is…" Designed by Aswani from India.

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Chestnut

Designed by Barney from Slovakia.

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Cool Cat

"A literal wallpaper, this is an illustration of the coolest cat: the one and only, James Dean." Designed by 3 Roads Media from USA.

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Domo At The Playground

"I <3 Domo." Designed by Anca Varsandan from Romania.

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Sweet September

"This is one of my first shots on the new Canon EOS 500D DSLR.Actually, raspberries grown in my garden,so I decided to photographthem a little. I hope you enjoy it." Designed by Dominik Levytskyi from Ukraine.

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Why Autumn

"A little reason for Autumn, From morocco… with love !" Designed by Adil Fattoumy from Morocco.

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Landscape in Santa Catarina

"Winter in South America" Designed by Marco Aurelio Fevereiro from Brazil.

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September Space

"Beautiful space wallpaper with desktop calendar of September 2010" Designed by Sagar from Bangladesh.

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Hello September

"Say Bye to summer, September is here." Designed by Jaro Mlkvy from Slovakia.

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New Season

Designed by Eugenie Huard from California, USA.

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Going to seed

"September calendar celebrates Autumn and nature Going To Seed. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower. – Albert Camus”" Designed by Kim Carney from USA.

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Hanging

"Random Idea…" Designed by Kris Koubaddy from United States.

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Welcome Autumn.

"Let’s give a big welcome to Autumn that will begin in September!" Designed by Marco Palma from Germany.

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Umbrella

"Don’t forget to take your umbrella with you in September. Actually this is more what August was like in Germany." Designed by Martin Kolb from Germany.

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Happy Place

Designed by Kasper Nordkvist from Denmark.

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Time to Design

"The summer is ending, everyone is going back to school/work and the weather is starting to change. But this can be a good thing because now we have a good excuse to stay inside and start designing beautful things. Designed by: Robin de Jong from The Netherlands" Designed by Robin de Jong from Netherlands.

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Back to School

"To grow up, meet new friends and learn life." Designed by Eugenie Huard from California, USA.

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Ramadan Kareem

"Eid ul-Fitr, This happy festival marks the end of the fast of Ramadan which is the Islamic month of fasting. I designed this wallpaper to dedicate my design for the month of Ramadan kareem." Designed by Vanshika Wadhwani from Bahrain.

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Welcome Ramadan

"Wallpaper I made on the holy occasion of Ramadan." Designed by Taghreed Alhaqbani from Saudi Arabia.

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Star

"Never Forget." Designed by Eric Hooper from USA.

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Kitchen Hymns

"During my time at NYSC, I was inspired abotu learning and observing a culture very new to me. Specifically was the body dimensions of ladies from the Southern part of Nigeria was something I want to hold dear to memory – not that I stare at them, but some things can not hide for long. This artwork shows a typical African lady having a swell time at the kitchen." Designed by Aroyewun Babajide from Nigeria.

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Falling Leaves

"As the air turns crisp and the leaves begin to change, use this desktop to give yourself a picturesque reminder of autumn." Designed by fifty2forty8 studios from USA.

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Note for Dad

"A simple reminder to all Dads to go home early :)" Designed by Aswani from India.

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Afternoon Bike

"Afternoon Bike" Designed by emily shirley from USA.

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Sunshine

"Awesome autumn sunset, shoot in Norway just a few days ago.The photo was made at around 10 p.m. withvery little editing done to it, just to make the color pop a little more and remove a jet line." Designed by Nistor Mihai from Romania.

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When leaves leave…

"September…when leaves leave…" Designed by Vy Phan from United Kingdom.

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Inspirations

"A simple calendar hope you guys like it, i got the inspiration from a photo-manipulated imageIf you guys want to change anything or have any suggestions please let me know.Free to use but mention my name." Designed by Qayum Khan from Afghanistan.

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Seagull Days

"A view from the Head Island Causeway in Boston’s South Shore. Photo-traced." Designed by Nate Green from USA.

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Zzzz..!

"The illustration was created as a booklet for A Nursery Center, so, I used the sameillustration on the cover for a wallpaper." Designed by Fatima Alghafli from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Through the window

"I always look up my windows when I am tired of starring the computer screen. It reminds me the weather outside at the moment or the time to eat dinner. I clipped off the word “September” from news paper and pasted it to my window, which notices me that it’s already September." Designed by Ssu-Hua Chen from Australia.

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Layover

Designed by Megan Smith from USA.

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Join in next month!

Please notice that we respect the ideas and motivation behind artists’ work which is why we’ve given artists full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience through their works. And this is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

Thanks to all designers for participation. Join in next month!

What’s your favorite?

What’s your favourite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comments! And have a smashing September, folks!

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In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It’s a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or non-profit organization. The theme is designed by ProudThemes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• live demo
• large preview (.jpg, 0.6 Mb)
• download the theme (.zip, 0.12 Mb)
• download the .PSD Logo (.zip, 42Kb)
• release on the developer’s site

If you want to be informed when an update to Academica theme will be released, consider signing up with ProudThemes (free).

Features

• The theme was developed for WordPress 3.0 (compatible with 3.0.1)
• Modern, three-column clean design
• Setting up Academica Theme is easy and takes just a few seconds. The theme can be uploaded directly from the Dashboard > Appearance > Themes page. No need to edit any files — everything can be done from the Theme Options page.
• 5 built-in icons to share and link to your profiles on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn and Youtube
• The theme allows enabling/disabling of a jQuery-based content slider on the homepage for showing your photos
• Academica Theme uses a jQuery-based drop-down menu with a fade-in effect
• 9 sidebars (widget areas) and 3 custom widgets developed for this theme
• 3 custom page templates and 2 custom post templates
• Dynamic image resizing (TimThumb script)
• Support for Custom Menus (WordPress 3.0+).

Screenshots

Drop-down navigation menu. See live demo.

Content blocks in the sidebar, defined with a custom widget. See live demo.

News archive page. See live demo

Comments area with threaded comments (“reply”-functionality). See live demo.

Behind the design process

As always, here are some insights from the designers:

“Most theme developers create a lot of magazine and portfolio themes for WordPress, however the education niche is mostly ignored. We decided to do something about it, and create a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university/academy or non-profit organization. Of course, the theme can be used in other niches as well, no restrictions or whatsoever. After reviewing a ton of web-sites of educational institutions, our eyes fell on the web-site of Massey University of New Zealand. With a rather general layout and color palette, we decided to make the navigation and all styling pure-CSS, without any gradients, so that the theme can be customized much faster and easier.”

Thank you for your great work, guys. We appreciate your work, your time and your contributions to the design community.

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Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: Polaroid Magento Theme, a professional design skin for the shops powered by the popular open-source ecommerce web application Magento. The theme was designed by eCommerce-Themes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• live demo
• large preview (.png)
• installation guide and documentation
• download the .zip-package (zip, 1.1 Mb)
• release on the developer’s site

Features

The Polaroid theme includes the following features:

• the Polaroid effect is made with CSS3. The product grid displays products in random orientations.
• Product zoom: the category page was spiced up by adding a zoom functionality to the product grid. When you mouse over a product, it zooms in to show the product in more details.

The .zip-package also contains additional modules “Best Sellers”, “Features Products”, “New Products”, and “Multi Shipping”.

Home (large preview)

Category (large preview)

Behind the design

As always, here are some insights from the designers:

We wanted to go beyond the boundaries of Magento and break the usual design patterns. We really wanted to try something new, add rich CSS3 features to the Magento theme and experiment a bit with its different features. We are very pleased to share this theme with the community, especially with Smashing Magazine readers.

Thank you, guys. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.

[Offtopic: by the way, did you already get your copy of the Smashing Book?]

Related Posts

You may be interested in the following related posts:

• HelloWired: A Free Magento Theme
• Sigyn SM: A Free Magento Theme
• 25 Magento Templates For Your E-Commerce Business

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Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a beautiful Modernist WordPress theme, designed by Rodrigo Galindez and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is based on the design ideas of Jan Tschichold, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Dieter Rams, and other modernists. Beautifully built yet transparent, it was designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content: text, images and video.

The theme supports widgets, is SEO optimized, has clean and documented code. It is loading very quickly, and has various WordPress 3.0 features. Works in IE 6+ and all versions of Safari/Firefox/Opera. Includes CSS3 enhancements. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• live demo
• large preview (.jpg, 0,14 Mb)
• download the .zip-package (updated, version 2.5, zip, 0.6 Mb)
• release on the developer’s site

Features

The installation of the theme is very simple. No plugins required, no extra frameworks required. Just download the theme, upload it to your server and activate it to make it work.

• WordPress 3.0.1 tested. It works with the latest version of WordPress, and also with previous versions.
• Embraces Social Media. Modernist has links to share each post to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious Digg, and Reddit. No plugins needed, it just works out of the box.
• Is SEO optimized. Modernist has been carefully handcrafted in order to produce a clean HTML/CSS template. No unnecessary lines, just pure, semantical, bulletproof code that Google loves.
• Supports widgets. Modernist has a widgetized sidebar, and WordPress’ default widgets are styled. You can also drop your favorite widgets or plugins without needing to touch a single line of code.
• Has support for threaded comments, navigation for comments, table styles, header styles and definition lists styles.
• Is flexible and extensible. Change the color scheme to suit your own taste. All the code is well commented. Personalize the theme by adding your own header or your own images in the sidebar. Use font embedding services such as Typekit to serve different fonts and make the typography look unique!

Homepage (large preview)

Comments (large preview)

Comment Form (large preview)

Post (large preview)

Search Results (large preview)

Main Nav

Section

Thank you, Rodrigo Galindez. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.

[Offtopic: by the way, did you know that there is a Smashing eBook Series? Book #2 is Successful Freelancing for Web Designers, 260 pages for just $9,90.]

Related Posts

You may be interested in the following related releases:

• 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes For 2010
• 30 New Free High Quality Free Fonts
• Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit

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

This post features 50 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

Please notice:

• all images can be clicked and lead to the preview of the wallpaper;
• you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

So what wallpapers have we received for August 2010?

[Offtopic: by the way, have you already visited Smashing Magazine's Facebook fan page? Join the community for a stream of useful resources, updates and giveaways!]

Superstar

"Has “the man” got you down? Feel like nobody sees what a superstar you are? Well keep on shining all day long with this retro-tastic wallpaper!" Designed by Brennan Gilbert from USA.

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Viktoria

"A little wallpaper for all the Germany supporters during the World Cup." Designed by Ricky Linn from USA.

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Aves Lacuna

Designed by Kyle Wheaton from Buffalo, NY, USA.

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Symbian World

"Scene from Symbian World." Designed by Anna Alfut from UK.

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Piranha fishing

"Gone fishing in my little row boat." Designed by Natalia Shishina from Russia.

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Simple Beauty

Designed by Dovydas Vystartas from Lithuania.

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Photography

"Hello from Singapore! This photograph was taken when I was walking along The Orchard Street, where you can find lots and lots of luxury goods. Hope you guys like this colorful wallpaper – Enjoy!" Designed by Juanita Ooi from London, UK (Originally Malaysia).

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Strawberry

"I love this work!" Designed by Agnieszka Pluskota from Poland.

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August Sentense

"Just motivating sentence for August :)" Designed by Temeshi from Poland.

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A Square Meal

"It’s August and we love picnics — it’s a great way to get your friends together and enjoy the weather! Being an integrated marketing agency, we know that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts… in marketing AND in sandwiches! These orange creatures are here to remind you to never forget the finishing touches and that no sandwich is too big-you can always use a ladder!" Designed by thunder::tech from USA.

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Girls Just Want To Have Fun

"Inspired by Cindy Lauper’s famous song." Designed by Irene from Spain.

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Summers Freedom

"A photograph to express sheer freedom a lot of people experience at the height of summer — “Summers Freedom” — in this case, the two enjoying a summers evening are Sasha Bell and Rosanna Bell" Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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Relax, It’s Summer

Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

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Photography

"This photograph was taken in the beginning of 2010, when I was enjoying my winter holiday in London. I believe all of you knew that the winter temperature dropped a lot this year — freezing and raining all day long! I was lucky enough to sense a short few hours of sunny day in the winter." Designed by Juanita Ooi from London, UK (Originally Malaysia).

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The Salt March

"August 15th is India’s Independence Day. Depicted here is the Salt March of 1930 which triggered the Freedom Movement in India. The Salt Satyagraha campaign was based upon Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent protest called satyagraha, which he loosely translated as “truth-force.” Jai Hind!" Designed by Pixel Pundits from India.

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México 1963

"Harmonious life in México City in the 60’s." Designed by Aki from México.

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Hot Balloons

"August is one of the hottest months of the year. August is melting." Designed by Kari Andresen from USA.

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I Hate Mondays

"Mondays are a freelancer’s nightmare. I’ve always wanted to cry out in all despair “I Hate Mondays!” Anger! Despair! Rivers of fire! Damnation! Let them all out for all the world to hear and see!" Designed by Bogdan Lazar from Romania.

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Come Sail Away

"Fillmore-style illustration featuring the lyrics to Styx’s song “Come Sail Away”" Designed by Allison Doty from USA.

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Love knows no bounds

"The message of this wallpaper is Love knows no bounds. Race, age, sex, (level in the food chain :)) it all doesn’t matter as long as you love each other. My boyfriend is 16 years older then me and some people just think we’re not supposed to be together because of the age difference. Next week we’ll have our 9 year anniversary… So for the cat and the mouse: as long as the heart is bigger then the hunger, they’ll be fine. " Designed by Nicole Bauer from Germany.

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SinGiNg SuNFloWeR

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

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Cherry

"I love this work!" Designed by Agnieszka Pluskota from Poland.

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Cows

"Hopefully this August you’ll have some time to take a drive/bike ride through the countryside. If not, here’s a typical highway view from my part of the world. Maybe it will inspire you to get outside and enjoy the August weather, or at least do some cow tipping." Designed by Dan Sweet from USA.

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Chocolate Dream

Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

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Summer Cat

Designed by Marina Nozyer from Russia.

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Happy Independence Day

"15th August is the only important day in August for us to celebrate (Indians), so I decided to create a desktop wallpaper on the same theme. I hope you all will enjoy it. “HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY” 2 all the Indians." Designed by Meghna Sharma from India.

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Focus Footprints

"Maybe some abstract sort of meadows? Maybe some abstract sort of meadows?" Designed by Philipp Lehmann from Switzerland.

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Glowing Dark August

Designed by Vincius Ervilha from Brazil.

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Climate Change

Adopted from Marek Denko’s work by Luciana Passaro from Italy.

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Sleep. Surf.

"Peak of the summer gives you endless opportunities do sleep late, miss all the cooked meals featuring healthy vegetables, go offline and just hit the water. Peak of the summer is the reason of calendar absence. Ignore the clock and be good at it. Longboard models courtesy of Nunosk8." Designed by Antonio Hadrovic from Croatia.

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Nature’s Dream

"Nature’s Dream wallpapers created with Scribbler Tool and Photoshop." Designed by Silvia Bukovac Gasevic.

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Leaves in The Rain

"A fresh green leave to keep you going without getting unorganized! Good morning." Designed by Melle Wynia from The Netherlands.

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One Mad Cookie

"August has always seemed like a month of strange & creative thoughts for me, so whenI recently read that August 4th was National Chocolate Chip day I couldn’t help my mindfrom pandering thoughts of cookies with personalities. I thought if I was a cookie Iwould probably be pretty upset if someone took a big bite out of me, so I decided toexpress this in my design." Designed by Jennie Waterous from USA.

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Splash

Designed by Emily Shirley from USA.

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Watch out for sharks

"Inspired while playing with Photoshop vectors, for all of you who like minimalism and blue. Oh, and don’t get eaten by a shark while you are enjoying your vacation." Designed by Lucijan Blagoni from Croatia.

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Into the Hole

Designed by Manish Jinwal from India.

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Color Emotions

Designed by Gints Stikans from Latvia.

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Do we need to say more?

"August, as the summer is at its high most in the northern hemisphere, most people go out for vacation (at least in the US). So, do we need to say more?" Designed by Phidev Inc. from USA.

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Geometric Summer

"This is how I see my summer. Simple, geometrical, layered, yet full of color: beach = sand + sea + sun. Cheers from Spain and have a great summer ;-)" Designed by Antonio Bustamante Mirayo from Spain.

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Freedom

"August 15th marks a wonderful day in the history. India, the largest democratic country in the world got freedom from British invasion. It was 1947 when our great freedom fighters got us the ever lasting success and made our lives flourish forever. Since that day, August 15th of every year is celebrated as Independence Day in India." Designed by Neelam Asrani from India.

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This too shall pass (Persian Calligraphy)

"”In niz bogzarad” means This too shall pass , life is like that…" Designed by Soodabeh Amirakbari from Iran.

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Smashing Team

"A simple tribute to Smashing Magazine’s team." Designed by Kalyne Nobrega from Brasil.

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The King Of Pop

"Michael Jackson inspired a lot of people, especially all of us here at Bright Oak? Creative Studio. His birthday falls on the 29th and so we dedicate this Smashing Magazine wallpaper to him and all of his fans around the world. Happy Birthday Michael!" Designed by Bright Oak from USA & Switzerland.

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Beach Time

Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

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Independence Day

"15th august is the independence day of India so I am showing few heroes who sacrificed their lives for their motherland. There are endless number of men and women other than I have shown in the wallpaper. The wallpaper I have designed is a Tribute to all our freedom fighters." Designed by Aditya L from India.

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Over the Bridge

"Sometimes we are so close to fulfill our dreams that it only takesa few more steps to finally reach them." Designed by Jany from Italy.

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Sunscreen Novice

"Avoid black in summer.”Avoid black in summer.”" Designed by Kate Jones from UK.

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Freedom

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." Designed by Pooja Taneja from India.

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The Traveller

Designed by Surreal Illusions from England, UK.

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Watching Universe Twirl

Designed by Andrei Verner from Russia.

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Sand Between My Toes

"It’s still pretty hot in the UK, but after reading comments in July’s wallpaper feature, I picked up that in Australia, it’s “winter” – so I thought why not try to do a beach shot which can be interrupted and doesn’t scream “summer”! I hope you like this simple beach shot – hopefully a nice change! Ps. the legs in this shot belong to Rosanna Bell ;) Happy August!" Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

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Join in next month!

Please notice that we respect the ideas and motivation behind artists’ work which is why we’ve given artists full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience through their works. And this is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

Thanks to all designers for participation. Join in next month!

What’s your favorite?

What’s your favourite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comments! And have a smashing August, folks!

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