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The Designer Desktops series features a different beautiful desktop wallpaper for you to download to your computer and iPhone, inspired by a thought-provoking quote from a renown designer. http://design-milk.com/tag/designer-desktops/
May 2012: We let out a little squeak of joy when Matt W. Moore agreed to design a desktop for our Designer Desktop series. We love it!
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April’s Designer Desktop is a Chinese proverb that artist Rafa Jenn has illustrated and interpreted as “A bird [An artist] doesn’t sing [create] because it has an answer, it sings [creates] because it [he/she] has a song.”
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March’s Designer Desktop is a quote by Coco Chanel: “Success if often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable,” as illustrated by designer Alia Ormut – Fleishman. In the design she incorporated decorative designed typography and imagery inspired by Chanel iconography, but with a modernized illustrated twist.
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March 2010: The first month, we kicked things off with none other than Mr. Charles Eames.
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April 2010: Designer Desktops, our monthly desktop wallpaper series inspired by a thought-provoking quote from a renown designer. This month, we’ve chosen fashion designer Coco Chanel.
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May 2010: Designer Desktops, our monthly desktop wallpaper series inspired by a thought-provoking quote from a renown designer. For May, we worked with an illustrator to make a Philippe Starck quote come to life.
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June 2010: Designer Desktops, our monthly desktop wallpaper series inspired by a thought-provoking quote from a renown designer. This month, we’re inspired by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose style is unique and influential.
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July 2010: This installment of Design Milk’s Designer Desktops monthly desktop wallpaper series was inspired by a quote from William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” It is kind of hard to read in the image above, so here it the quote: “…only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.”
August 2010: This installment of Design Milk’s Designer Desktops monthly desktop wallpaper series was inspired by Thomas Edison. It was created by talented typographer, designer, and developer Brandon Oxendine.
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September 2010: Freshen up your desktop with a great new Designer Desktops wallpaper by talented artist and designer Brooke Francesi. This month’s inspirational quote is from famous surrealist Salvador Dali: “Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.” Amen to that.
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October 2010: This one was created by our contributor and talented designer Crystal Chou. I’m not sure all the quotes out there attributed to Karl Lagerfeld ever passed from his lips, but regardless this is a good one.
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November 2010: This one was created by our contributor and talented designer Eleanor Cleverly.
December 2010: The last Designer Desktop wallpaper of 2010 comes from designer, illustrator and lover of type Annica Lydenberg. I’ve seen this Picasso quote said in a variety of ways, but I like this iteration best: “Every act of construction is an act of destruction.” Plus it made for one heck of an awesome wallpaper design!
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January 2011: A new year, a new month and a new desktop! To kick off 2011′s Designer Desktop wallpaper series, Catrina Dulay is back with another goodie.
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February 2011: February might be a short month, but we certainly didn’t shortchange you on this month’s Designer Desktop. Designed by hellopanos, this quote has been attributed to coming out of such famous mouths as Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Petronius. Since we don’t know who said it, let’s just assume they probably all did.
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March 2011: This month’s Designer Desktop was created by our very own Joel Pirela of Blue Ant Studio.
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April 2011: This year is flying by! Now that it’s a brand new season and a brand new month, it’s time for a fresh new Designer Desktop. This month’s desktop is courtesy of Kelly Beall of Design Crush.
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May 2011: May’s Designer Desktop is a fun one from artist David Matthew Parker, who is also featured as one of the artists in our Design Milk Dairy collection on Society6. He enjoys creating puzzle-like patterns and precise rules-based abstracts.
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June 2011: The Designer Desktop for June is a bit of a departure from what we’ve had in the past. But, I’m sure you will love it nonetheless. Designed by Orlando artist, designer and blogger Jason Dean of The Best Part, I’m sure many of you in your 20s-40s will remember how popular this song by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock was (and still is). Whenever I hear it on the radio, I always crank it up and sing along.
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July 2011: This Designer Desktop is inspired by a quote from Coco Chanel (she was just full of wit and wisdom, no?) Designed by Allison and Craig Glancey of Strawberry Luna, the design reminds me of the opening of a French film from the 1970s.
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August 2011: This month’s Designer Desktop was designed by Jessica Wright. She chose to illustrate a very interesting quote from Milton Glaser: “Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.”
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September 2011: This month’s Designer Desktop comes from illustrator Gemma Correll, whose work we’ve featured in our Design Milk Dairy Society6 collection.
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October 2011: This month’s Designer Desktop comes from H. Michael Karshis who chose a quote from Tibor Kalman, “Everything is an experiment.”
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November 2011: This month’s Designer Desktop comes from Henry Madsen of Helmetgirl illustration and design. Henry explains, “Pieces of art, for me, are windows into a parallel world of beauty, magic, abstraction and inspiration. So I often find that if I allow myself to observe a piece of art — be it in a gallery, on the street or just a natural work of beauty — a little bit of that other world will spill over and brighten up my day.”
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December 2011: Designer Desktop with Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles for Good Design, as illustrated by Aaron Wood, maker of those infamous Social Media Propaganda Posters that were so popular this year.
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Opening this year’s monthly Designer Desktop series is Anthony Zinonos, who illustrated a quote by Nicholas Burroughs: “Minimalism is not a lack of something, it’s simply the perfect amount of something.”
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February’s Designer Desktop is a quote by Nolan Bushnell: “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline” as illustrated by designer Burcu B. Koken.
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Lumens Light+Living Love it! Just when I think, man, another month went by?! These brighten things up :)