I 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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About Nikola Lazarevic
Web Designer, Blogger, M.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Nis, Serbia. Founder of webexpedition18.com. You can find me on Twitter.
Cool wallpaper!
7. Feb. 2010.
Looks 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
7. Feb. 2010.
Thanks Richie! Wallpaper with dark background coming soon.
And thanks for suggestion
7. Feb. 2010.
The wall looks very, very, very good! Well done!
Also, I second Richie’s request for a darker version.
7. Feb. 2010.
Looks very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
7. Feb. 2010.
Thanks Holly for commenting!
I’m glad you liked it
7. Feb. 2010.
Nice work Nikola! I`ve got a new wallpaper hehe
7. Feb. 2010.
Looks cool! Guess it’s a good start. You may pick the highest mountains on every continent for a series of wallpapers.
7. Feb. 2010.
Cool idea Luke. I might create such a series of wallpaper
Thanks for commenting
7. Feb. 2010.
I think that will be a cool idea, Nik. You can release the whole set sometime in the end. I would love it
8. Feb. 2010.
Awesome this Nikolas!
7. Feb. 2010.
The 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
7. Feb. 2010.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment Bob.
I really appreciate it. And I’m glad you liked it.
7. Feb. 2010.
Cool Wallpaper!!!, love the colours
7. Feb. 2010.
Very nice! Loving the style!
7. Feb. 2010.
Pretty nice, RT and bumps done
Keep up!
8. Feb. 2010.
Nice one my friend!
8. Feb. 2010.
Great wallpaper, I will definately use it
8. Feb. 2010.
the designs are in the left are so cool , like it, i made it as my desktop wallpaper. and worthy to share in social networking
8. Feb. 2010.
Cool 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.
8. Feb. 2010.
Looks awesome! Good job
8. Feb. 2010.
Looks very amazing!
8. Feb. 2010.
wow really nice
8. Feb. 2010.
Beautiful wallpaper, good luck with other mountains.
8. Feb. 2010.
great job, Nikola. thanks for sharing!
9. Feb. 2010.
For a similar effect, check this tutorial by James White: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/creating_the_new_retro
20. Feb. 2010.
Cool! A nice way to start a much more complex design. Las Vegas Web Design
6. Aug. 2010.