Good morning everyone! I hope all of you in the U.S. are having a wonderful 3 day weekend, and that everyone else had a great weekend. I’m so excited to finally show you all the DESKTOP BATTLE! winners from last month! Once again I got a ton of amazing entries and it was pretty hard to pick, but these were definitely my personal favorites.

Our first place winner is Krzysztof Domaradzki, whom some of you may know from his brilliant work over at Studio KXX. Krzysztof has the hardest name ever to type out, but his Darwinian/Walt Whiman/butterfly collage definitely makes it worth it. I love all the details in this image, the colors, the fonts, everything resounded with me, and I pretty much knew this was going to be the winner as soon as I saw it. Plus that beard is absolutely magical!

Congrats Krzysztof on destroying your competition!

Second place goes to the wonderful Zara Picken who brings us a simple but witty entry. As most people know, beards are wonderful places to store bits of food for later consumption, but by the looks of Zara’s desktop, other objects can also get stuck in there, such as corkscrews and fish bones. It’s funny, I’ve been a secret fan of Zara’s for a while now, but it wasn’t until writing this that I really realized who she was. Definitely check out the rest of her work, it’s extremely cute, and yet again congratulations on stomping the competition (well, almost all of it)!

And finally, third place goes to Mr. Jon Correll of Columbus, Ohio. Jon’s entry was also rather witty like Zara’s above, bu his relied upon facial hair to spell out the word moustache, how rad is that?! I think the S and A and T are my favorites, but all of them are pretty dang funny. I also love how old-timey it looks, with a nice amount of attention to the page rot, as well as a good selection color-wise. Follow Jon’s guide and you’ll definitely look better, feel stronger, AND meet women! Good job Jon!

Once again, congrats to the winners and a huge thank you to everyone else who sent in a desktop, you all are awesome! Check back sometime this week for this month’s theme and prize announcement!

Bobby

7 Comments »

1. Great wallpapers. congrats to all winners, specialy to Domaradzki :) great quota!

   Comment by klower — September 1, 2008 #

2. cool stuff!! but sad because moustache one in 1280×1024 is 404. i hope i can download it later. thanks!

   Comment by fernando — September 1, 2008 #

3. oh noes, can you fix the link for the 1024×768 version of the last one?

   Comment by Jason — September 1, 2008 #

4. Those wallpapers don’t actually come in those sizes. Both of those sizes require cropping into the images, which I didn’t want to do.

   My suggestion would be to download a larger size, and then put the background as black, giving it a letterbox feel.

   I hope this helps everyone!

   Comment by Bobby — September 1, 2008 #

5. these are some real great wallpapers! cocngrats and thanks :D

   Comment by g — September 2, 2008 #

6. Beautiful - thanks again for your help in beautifying my desktop! And of course, a big congrats to the artists.

   Comment by Anita — September 3, 2008 #

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