Design Shards October 2008 Calendar On Smashing Magazine

While making my re-design for my site I was also working on an entry for smashing magazines October calendars, luckily it made the cut and was featured on the list this month.

October Can Be Beautiful Too

If you want a specific resolution feel free to leave a comment stating what you want and id be glad to upload it for you, or you could resize the bigger resolution.

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with calendar: 1280×960, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
without calendar: 1280×960, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

I have a big interest in illustration so i picked up my £35 graphics tablet and got to work on creating a face, I am very pleased with how it turned out and could stare at her eyes all day.

The wooden background is a texture that i included in my texture pack that I released a few months ago, also I added extra overlays to the illustration with other textures that I included in the pack to make it more rustic and give it a feel of nature and autumn.

I created the calendar from a piece of cardboard and downloaded a leaf stock image pack from deviant art, added it all together and that was the result feel free to download the calendar, if you have no use for it maybe you could get some inspiration from it, either way hope you like it.

You’ll notice the wide open space on the left of the calendar, I realise some people don’t have Icons on there desktop but I do so I am sorry if this annoys you or if your using vista that the calendar gets covered up by your widget.

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too. See all posts by: Max Stanworth

16 Comments (Leave a Comment)

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October 13, 2008

Really awesome website and really like the wallpaper
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Dainis Graveris

October 5, 2008

Congratz! Nice wallpaper – I like that You left one side free for icons! :)

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Garry

October 5, 2008

Hey man this is an awesome site, love the design and the applications. Nice one.

Garry
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Max | design Shard

October 5, 2008

@ mr. Брус – Да IAM автора этого поста и создатель дизайна шард и все комментарии читать.

Yes iam the author of this post and the creator of design shard and all comments are read.
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Stu | Self Conlusion

October 2, 2008

Good work mate! I likey!
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NaldzGraphics

October 1, 2008

nice calendar. and congrats!!!:)i just saw this wallpaper last day on smashing mag.keep up the good work.

Ronald

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Max | Design Shard

October 1, 2008

@ Thanks every one for the comments, haha sorry about the non mac friendly wallpaper, ill think about that next time.

@Electronic – Да я создал это мои самообороной
(yes i created it my self)
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Alek

October 1, 2008

congrats! great new look and cool calender illustration.

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Craig Farrall

October 1, 2008

Nice illustration there for a calender, I did notice this on Smashing Magazine, but congratulations on being featured on there.

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Pat

September 30, 2008

awesome illustration but i agreed with tom, anti-mac wallpaper lol

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Tom Sinclair

September 30, 2008

Whoops I meant shame the space is! All mac icons are on the right lol
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Tom Sinclair

September 30, 2008

Looks good! Shame its on the left, anti mac wallpaper :P
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Max | Design Shard

September 30, 2008

@ Nick – Fixed it i think , re-uploaded them all, wasnt forbidden for me!, thanks for letting me know.

@Pab – thanks yea i was trying my best for rustic autumn with a little bit of sunshine in there as well.
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pab

September 30, 2008

Looks great Max, Love the color scheme and intricacies.
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Nick | Resource Pile

September 30, 2008

Looks great (love the new design btw), but all the bigger images are currently 403 forbidden!

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