Start the New Year Off Right

with some new wall paper. Smashing Magazine is a British publication that focuses on web design and developing with a serious focus on creativity. They also have a great blog.

As a way to inspire creativity in the new year Smashing Magazine will be providing several different wall papers each month. Each wall paper includes a calendar for the month. Artists are invited to submit their own designs for future wall papers. For January there are 35 different wall papers that will appeal to people with all different artistic temperaments you can access by clicking here. The wall papers are easy to download, just pick the size you want, then right click and select set as background.

Smashing Magazine also invites users to submit their own wall papers for future months. You don't need anything but your own creativity. Check out submission guidelines here.