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.

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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.

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Design Sleep Design

Designed by Krystian Kubicki from Poland.

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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.

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Little April

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

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Oops Illustration

"Oops! - wallpaper is devoted to upcoming onset :)" Designed by Egor Kosten from Ukraine.

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Happy Easter

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

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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.

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Spring Bunny

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

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Spring Bunny

Designed by Andrei Tudorica from Romania.

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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.

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Easter Bunny

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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April Showers

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

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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.

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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.

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Spring Beez

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

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New Beginnings

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

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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.

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Imagine April

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

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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.

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Circle of Love

"Lite Romance using Typography" Designed by Bassam Elbiltagi from Egypt.

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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.

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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.

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Eye of the Sun

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

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Spring Discovery

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

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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.

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Miss April

Designed by Tijana Bulatovic from Serbia.

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Reservoir

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

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Creeping Up

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

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Healing Nature

Designed by Sietse Visser from The Netherlands.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Illustration of Urban Woman

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

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Transformers

Designed by Artcream from Netherlands.

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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.

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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.

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Clint Eastwood

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

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Little People

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

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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.

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Love the Earth

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

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Another Pink Rabbit in Love

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

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April Showers

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

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Buddha

Designed by Artcream from Netherlands.

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Wood Desktop

Designed by Indeziner from Romania.

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Happy Cake Shop

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What’s for Lunch

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

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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.

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Have A Martini?

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

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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.

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April Fools

Designed by Frank van Oudhuizen (AddictDesign) from Netherlands.

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Illustration

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

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Poor, Dear, Silly Spring

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

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Mirror

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

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Paisley in The Office

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

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I Heart April

Designed by Elyse Jones from USA.

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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.

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TreE MadNeSs

Designed by Pietje Precies from The Netherlands.

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Isometric Indulgence

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

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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.

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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.

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The However

Designed by Benoit Chartron from France.

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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.

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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.

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Aura

Designed by Blake Gentry from USA.

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April Sentense

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

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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.

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Revolution

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

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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.

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Space Lines

"Ive decided to create very simple futuristic theme and Im 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.

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Skull Break

Designed by jadekone from Venezuela.

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Join in next month!

Please notice that we respect the ideas and motivation behind artists’ work which is why we’ve given artists full freedom to explore their creativity and express emotions and experience through their works. And this is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us, but designed from scratch by the artists themselves.

Thanks to all designers for participation. Join in next month!

What’s your favorite?

What’s your favourite theme or wallpaper for this month? Please let us know in the comments! And have a smashing April, folks!