Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 6

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

Wild West Bodoni

For this mon­th’s wall­pa­pers I went to the well of some old projects I did back in col­lege. The first is a back­ground I built for a poster. I designed, print­ed, and made a full deck of cards with the let­ters of a Bodoni Poster ver­sion on one side. Then I sat down and spread them out over the table, try­ing dif­fer­ent arrange­ments, and shoot­ing some pho­tos of the dif­fer­ent setups. This one I liked the best; now here it is in a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent wall­pa­per sizes.

Wallpaper Preview — Wild West Bodoni Poster Cards

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That GD Graphic Design

This is anoth­er idea from my col­lege days. I devel­oped this pat­tern for my self-identity as a graph­ic design­er. Hence the GD. Plus my name is Griffin, so Griffin Design also GD. This one is extreme­ly busy so its def­i­nite­ly not for the per­son who car­ries a ton of icons on their desk­top. Maybe I’ll expand on the idea some more and try some dif­fer­ent let­ters or words and see what else I can do with the style.

Wallpaper Preview — GD Graphic Design Jumble

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