Apr
3
2010

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

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 the default time application?

This post features 80 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 April 2010?

Splatter

“Inspired by an area of my painting studio.” Designed by Stephanie Crisalli from USA.

Splatter in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Unknown Beauty

“I’m a 21 year old student from the Netherlands. My school project was to make a wallpaper for this contest ^^So i did..Why the girl? this was my first vector and i wanted to show you all.Greetz,Jeroen van den Brand.” Designed by Jeroen van den Brand from Netherlands.

Unknownbeauty in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Design Sleep Design

Designed by Krystian Kubicki from Poland.

Design-sleep-design in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Spring Flower

“Shot with a 50mm lens. I love bokehs. And this flower was so springy I had to shoot it.Enjoy and Happy Easter!” Designed by Anca Varsandan from Romania.

Spring-flower in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Little April

“In the spring I have a lot on my mind and no rest day.” Designed by Anna Skibinska from Poland.

Little-april in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Oops Illustration

“Oops! – wallpaper is devoted to upcoming onset :) ” Designed by Egor Kosten from Ukraine.

Oops-illustration in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Happy Easter

“HQ-wallpapers and Smashing Magazine wishes you a Happy Easter” Designed by Paul from USA.

Happy-easter in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Easter Bunny With Painted Egg

“This month I decided to make something related to Easter , so it’s a painted egg and a bunny :D ” Designed by Alexandra Ipate from Romania.

Easter-bunny-with-painted-egg in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April  2010 (Easter Edition)

Spring Bunny

“The bunny family for Easter and whole April” Designed by Kamila Norys from Poland.

Spring-bunny in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Spring Bunny

Designed by Andrei Tudorica from Romania.

Spring Bunny in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Easter Day

“Well I made “Girl in the Rain” for those who don’t want an Easter wallpaper… but how can I resist making an Easter wallpaper?! Happy Easter!” Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

Easter-day in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Don’t Mess with Mr.Hare

“Greyhound learns a valuable lesson about messing with the hare at Easter” Designed by Tom Bradshaw from United Kingdom.

Dont-mess-with-mr-hare in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Easter Bunny

“A white Easter Bunny standing in the tall green grass.” Designed by Narcis Lupou from Romania.

Easter-bunny 1 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Easter Bunny

“The scene represents a bucolic place. There’s a little bunny in a green field with two trees and bushes. He’s taking a greeting of “happy easter”. On the horizon there are white clouds in the blue sky. On the top-right cloud lays the smashing magazine logo while the days of april’s month flying in that sky.” Designed by Laura Sclavi from Italy.

Easter-bunny in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Let’s read with Tiger

“Theme: International Children’s Book DayI dedicate my illustration to children. I decided to draw my story with a little tiger, because2010 is Tiger’s year. My illustration combines this two events.:)” Designed by Miglena Boncheva from Bulgaria.

Lets-read-with-tiger in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Secrets

“I was inspired by a photograph of Olivia Bell, on DeviantART and thought it would be quite cool as a wallpaper! Happy April and enjoy!” Designed by Rosanna Bell from England, UK.

Secrets in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

April Showers

“Living in Seattle, there are always showers…especially in April” Designed by Lauren Curtis from United States.

April-showers in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Girl in the Rain

“I was inspired to make this, from all the RAIN we get over here – we’ve had about 10 days of rain in England… not very fun, but inspiring anyway!” Designed by Sasha Bell from England, UK.

Girl-in-the-rain in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Carpe Diem

“Carpe diem (from latin) means to live fully. like a man who is not afraid from anything, and despite of a pain caused by a fire, he is fully happy. during the april, also the nature wakes up, as well as we should to start live fully.” Designed by Tomas Golha from Slovakia.

Carpe-diem in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Sweet Messy

“April is hot and messy in sun, colors and mushrooms April is hot and messy in sun, colors and mushrooms” Designed by Romy Menegazzi from Brazil.

Sweetmessy in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Spring Beez

“For me, the bees signify April, spring and the sunny days beginning.” Designed by Eugenie Huard from California, USA.

Springbeez in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

New Beginnings

“Designed for daily inspiration and encouragement to live life.” Designed by Millicent Bowman from USA.

New-beginnings in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Global Warming Warning

“I just wanted to remind you, guys, that we should all take care of our planet and don’t forget about global warming too! ;) ” Designed by Andrei Verner from Russia.

Global-warming-warning in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Imagine April

“Use this wallpaper as an motivation for your creation.” Designed by Klement Grgić from Croatia.

Imagine-april in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Legs Legs Legs

“I thought I’d try to make something fun and cheerful for April, and not overly Easter-ish! Just a little funky wallpaper – probably mainly for girls!! Happy April 2010!” Designed by Rosanna Bell from England, UK.

Legs-legs-legs in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Circle of Love

“Lite Romance using Typography” Designed by Bassam Elbiltagi from Egypt.

Circle-of-love in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Green Strings

“Guitar is one of my favorite musical instruments and April is celebrated as International Guitar month. So, I have designed this wallpaper to express my love for Guitar. :D ”” Designed by Upasana Jain from India.

Green-strings in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Delighted

“The only word that come into my mind is ‘Delighted’ when I see this beautiful, charming and innocent creation of God. That is my way to appreciate beauty of Daisy flower.”” Designed by Upasana Jain from India.

Delighted in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Eye of the Sun

“Sunset over the English Bay, Vancouver.” Designed by Matthew Lawless from Canada.

Eyeofthesun in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Spring Discovery

“It’s a springtime in Belgrade finaly!.:)” Designed by Jana Jelovac from Serbia.

Spring-discovery in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Banana Slip

“I had an idea about a big monkey/gorilla with a lovely girl in his neck. The girl is a little bit dominant and she points him at the banana. So I drawed it on a paper, scanned it and work it all out in Illustrator and Photoshop. The idea is that the monkey has drop his banana on the floor, which is dangerous because someone can slip over it. So the little girl points at the banana and the monkey/gorilla has to pick it up, before someone is going to slip over it.” Designed by Eelco Verbrugge from Netherlands.

Banana-slip in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Miss April

Designed by Tijana Bulatovic from Serbia.

Miss-april in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Reservoir

“I was inspired by the movie ‘reservoir dogs’” Designed by Pim de Vries from The Netherlands.

Reservoir in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Creeping Up

“Another month creeping up on us. Seems like 2010 just started, but here’s April!” Designed by Kris Koubaddy from United States.

Creeping-up in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Healing Nature

Designed by Sietse Visser from The Netherlands.

Healing-nature in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

My World

“”My World”… This creation was inspired by the floating islands, create an island with my own body.” Designed by Natanael Fernández from Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominicana.

My-world in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

The Parrot Catching Season. Arrrr!

“Ever thought why pirates had parrots? Well they exotic animals were expensive back in the pirate days. Catching and selling the colorful parrots back at home was a nice profit for the pirates.” Designed by Robert Wojciechowski from Australia.

Parrot-season in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Sunset Playtime

“I created this while I was reminiscing about my childhood and how much fun i had playing when the sun was setting. I wish i could rewind time and go back to those days of just feeling free.” Designed by Elyse Jones from USA.

Sunset Playtime in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Illustration of Urban Woman

“One of my digital illustrations turned calendar for the month of April.” Designed by Johnny Del Guercio from Canada.

Illustration-woman in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Transformers

Designed by Artcream from Netherlands.

Transformers in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Patlabor Ninja

“Patlabor is one of my favorite character anime when I was child. It always amazed me everytime I looked the details about well-designed character’s mechanical shape. So, here I create my own vector character version of Patlabor which I called “Patlabor Ninja”. I hope it’s not too bad comparing to the original design… :) ” Designed by Andik Taufiq from Indonesia.

Patlabor-ninja in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Somewhere Some Beach

“There’s a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair,Palm trees are growing and a warm breezes blowing,I picture myself right there On Some beach, somewhereThere’s ship cruice with music, dancing and lovers romancingIn the salty evening air, On some beach Somewhere…” Designed by Neelam Asrani from India.

Somewhere-some-beach in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Clint Eastwood

“A simple easy tribute to Clint Eastwood.” Designed by iheb003 from Tunisia.

Clint-eastwood in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Little People

“Two little people are hiking in the fresh spring forest. You should go too!” Designed by István Szép from Hungary.

Little-people in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Taxi Whale

“Even the whale needs job when our world’s been drown :D . Stop global warming! before it’s too late.” Designed by M. Nur Lanta Adena from Indonesia.

Taxi-whale in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Love the Earth

“April 22nd is Earth Day, but shouldn’t every day be?” Designed by Phidev Inc. from USA.

Love-the-earth in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Another Pink Rabbit in Love

“Let’s have fun with acronyms!” Designed by Binario Creativo from Italy.

Pink-rabbit in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

April Showers

“If the old saying holds true, this retro-cute shower will bring the May flowers!” Designed by tech from USA.

April-showers in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Buddha

Designed by Artcream from Netherlands.

Buddha in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

Wood Desktop

Designed by Indeziner from Romania.

Wood-desktop in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Happy Cake Shop

“Tasty treats sit in the sun, celebrating the start of spring.” Designed by Chris Alexander (Yipori) from England.

Cake in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

Monsters In April

“Uh, it took me forever to make this since I was having my junior high final exam this April. Hope you like it! And be sure to check my DeviantART!” Designed by Adrian W (Ryan Kon) from Indonesia.

Monsters In April in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Wash Away

“For my home country, April is always a rainy season filled with cherished memory of the deceased. The rain is washing away our sorrow and cleansing the earth where our beloved lying under” Designed by Jade Cheng from USA.

Wash-away in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Spring Fun

“Spring is the season of fun and joy. I have used spring and daisy flowers to express the joy. Even the fonts are adding funny mood to this wallpaper.”” Designed by Upasana Jain from India.

Spring-fun in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Ride a Bike

“With spring rolling around (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), it’s time to dust off the old bicycle and get some much needed fresh air and exercise. Let this wallpaper encourage you to spin your wheels at least once this month.” Designed by Dan Sweet from USA.

Ride-a-bike in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Cinematic Squirrel

“There is just something awesome about opening your laptop and having the eyes of a quirrel stare deep into your soul. Maybe it’s just me, but I absolutely love it!” Designed by Jake Donahue from USA.

Sad-cinematic Squirrel in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

What’s for Lunch

“Don’t you think it’s for free, my dear bunnies!” Designed by April Joy E. Jasmin from Philippines.

Whats-for-lunch in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Surprise Its Me

“Month of April is well known for Fool’s day. April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day is a day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on a fool’s errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. I designed this wallpaper to represent the Month of april in my way, which begins with the fool’s day. I designed this wallpaper to represent the Month of april in my way, which begins with the fool’s day.” Designed by Vanshika Wadhwani from Bahrain.

Surprise-its-me in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Have A Martini?

“Working too hard? Take a break, have a martini.” Designed by Stephanie Lam from Australia.

Have-a-martini in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Abandoned Stone Door

“Due to my love for spontanious photography, this photo was also made in that way, in one simple monday afternoon walk. It shows entrance to one of the uptown parks in capital of Croatia. Photo was taken with cell phone, filtered in PhotoScape, and finished in Photoshop CS4.” Designed by Lahorka Lojen from Croatia.

Abandoned Stone Door in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

April Fools

Designed by Frank van Oudhuizen (AddictDesign) from Netherlands.

April-fools in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Illustration

“Richard Shuback’s “Heated Discussion” takes a light satirical look at how corporate America communicates in 2010.” Designed by Richard Shuback from USA.

Discussion in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Poor, Dear, Silly Spring

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens” Designed by Mac Funamizu from Japan.

Poor-spring in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Mirror

“I describe a mirror that has been cracked :D ” Designed by Rifki Budikusuma from Indonesia.

Mirror in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

Paisley in The Office

“A paisley/swirly doodle paper-textured desktop with office stationery.” Designed by J E Pearce from New Zealand.

Paisley-spring in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

I Heart April

Designed by Elyse Jones from USA.

I Heart April in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Flower of Power

“This wallpaper is dedicated to my wife, Jenny. Celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary this month!” Designed by Sven Johnson at Modern Postcard from USA.

Flower in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

TreE MadNeSs

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

Treemadness in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Isometric Indulgence

“An isometric artwork made out of simple shapes.” Designed by Abdus Salam from Pakistan.

Isometric-indulgence in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010  (Easter Edition)

Sunrise Grazing

“April is one of my favourite months, in England everything begins to come to life and the sun is out! I know it’s Easter, but I know a lot of people don’t always like Easter wallpapers, so here’s something different!” Designed by Olivia Bell from England, UK.

Sunrise-grazing in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

April Sky

“The derivation of the name April (Latin Aprilis) is uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, “to open,” in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to “open,”” Designed by Sagar from Bangladesh.

April-sky in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

The However

Designed by Benoit Chartron from France.

The-however in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Clock

“Inspired by some comment-leavers to create a more minimal desktop wallpaper with lots of space for icons and whatnot.” Designed by Eli Burford from Australia.

Clock in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

Reactor Number 4

“On April 26, 1986, reactor number 4 of the Soviet Chernobyl powerplant triggered a nuclear meltdown. It was the worst nuclear disaster in human history. The radioactivity released on that day irradiated thousands of people; the area will remain inhabitable for centuries. This photograph shows the reactor today, and is part of my Chernobyl photo journal.” Designed by Timm Suess from Switzerland.

Reactor-number-4 in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Aura

Designed by Blake Gentry from USA.

Aura in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

April Sentense

“Just motivating sentence for April :) ” Designed by Temeshi from Poland.

April-sentense in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Postcard from SF

“A personal postcard from Molden, mountain top in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Great view, though only a small taste is given through this postcard. Should I say: Visit Norway!?” Designed by Asbjørn Ness from Norway.

Postcard From Sf in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Revolution

“Everyone sometimes needs some change in life. Maybe April will be the right time for your revolution?” Designed by Wouter Sioen from Belgium.

Revolution in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

April Daisy

“I chose Daisy flower as a theme for this wallpaper because it is known as birth flower for April [My month :) ]. I used only two effects i.e. ( Drop shadow & Inner glow) of Photoshop to design this wallpaper. I hope you will also like them…”” Designed by Upasana Jain from India.

April-daisy in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Space Lines

“I`ve decided to create very simple futuristic theme and I`m pretty sure, April (and 1st particulary) is the period of a year in which you can see lines in the space ;) ” Designed by Marek Chrenko from Slovakia.

Space-lines in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

Skull Break

Designed by jadekone from Venezuela.

Skull-break in Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter  Edition)

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