Free Wallpaper – Mount Everest 1952
written by Nikola LazarevicI designed this wallpaper, with a strong influence of James White’s work, and it’s inspired by expedition to Mount Everest in year 1952.
In the spring of 1952 a Swiss expedition, lead by Edouard Wyss-Dunant was granted permission to attempt a climb from Nepal. The expedition established a route through the Khumbu ice fall and ascended to the South Col at an elevation of 7,986 meters.
Mount Everest 1952
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Idea and Design Process
This wallpaper is inspired by work of James White. I’m so in love with his retro lines, so I wanted to create something on my own.
I started with creating background with retro circles. Then it was time to draw a retro lines. I was experimenting with the size of diagonal shards, colors and blend modes. I add flare spots also. For the text i used font Helvetica Neue. Finally I add retro touch with cardboard texture and heavy scratches.
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Web Designer, Blogger, M.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Nis, Serbia. Founder of webexpedition18.com. You can find me on Twitter.
27 Comments
ADD COMMENTJean-Baptiste Jung says:
February 7, 2010Cool wallpaper!
Richie says:
February 7, 2010Looks pretty awesome on my laptop, Nik. Please create more of such James’ inspired works.
I think a dash of RGB color combinations with a dark background will look awesome. Thanks for sharing :)
Nikola Lazarevic says:
February 7, 2010Thanks Richie! Wallpaper with dark background coming soon.
And thanks for suggestion :)
Marko Randjelovic says:
February 7, 2010The wall looks very, very, very good! Well done!
Also, I second Richie’s request for a darker version. :D
Holly Lamarche says:
February 7, 2010Looks very interesting! Thanks for sharing! :)
Nikola Lazarevic says:
February 7, 2010Thanks Holly for commenting!
I’m glad you liked it :)
iMatt says:
February 7, 2010Nice work Nikola! I`ve got a new wallpaper hehe
LukeSF says:
February 7, 2010Looks cool! Guess it’s a good start. You may pick the highest mountains on every continent for a series of wallpapers.
Nikola Lazarevic says:
February 7, 2010Cool idea Luke. I might create such a series of wallpaper :)
Thanks for commenting
Richie says:
February 8, 2010I think that will be a cool idea, Nik. You can release the whole set sometime in the end. I would love it :)
Antonio says:
February 7, 2010Awesome this Nikolas!
Bob Hays (@purplehayz) says:
February 7, 2010The wallpaper is very cool – and I like seeing the thought process for creation; I love knowing how someone came up with an idea and then realized it.
Very nice, thank you! – Bob
Nikola Lazarevic says:
February 7, 2010Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment Bob.
I really appreciate it. And I’m glad you liked it.
Franco says:
February 7, 2010Cool Wallpaper!!!, love the colours
Andrea Olivato says:
February 7, 2010Very nice! Loving the style!
h1brd says:
February 8, 2010Pretty nice, RT and bumps done :) Keep up!
Andy Sowards says:
February 8, 2010Nice one my friend!
Mihai O. says:
February 8, 2010Great wallpaper, I will definately use it ;)
sriganesh says:
February 8, 2010the designs are in the left are so cool , like it, i made it as my desktop wallpaper. and worthy to share in social networking :)
Zeemp says:
February 8, 2010Cool Wallpaper! What I really liked was the fact that, like we say in Brazil, you gave us the knife and the cheese, so we can just cut it. Is there any similar quote in english or in Serbia?
You should upload your cool logo to your facebook fanpage. :)
Konstantin says:
February 8, 2010Looks awesome! Good job :)
Simone D'Amico says:
February 8, 2010Looks very amazing! :)
Michelle says:
February 8, 2010wow really nice :)
Tomas says:
February 8, 2010Beautiful wallpaper, good luck with other mountains.
urbanjester says:
February 9, 2010great job, Nikola. thanks for sharing!
Daniel says:
February 20, 2010For a similar effect, check this tutorial by James White: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/creating_the_new_retro
Las Vegas Web Design says:
August 6, 2010Cool! A nice way to start a much more complex design. Las Vegas Web Design