Wallpaper, a new art form?
Saturday, September 27, 2003 by f0rTyLeGz | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Art's a funny thing. A meme for sure, that people "catch."
Personalizing your desktop, and especially choosing your wallpaper (sort of a "self for others") to see, really sounds like an art choice to me. Much more so than a clothes choice or a car choice, your monitor is a blank space, a tabla raza, just like everyone else's... until you choose.
Personalizing your desktop, and especially choosing your wallpaper (sort of a "self for others") to see, really sounds like an art choice to me. Much more so than a clothes choice or a car choice, your monitor is a blank space, a tabla raza, just like everyone else's... until you choose.
Raithe
Reply #2 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:17 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:17 AM
I have to agree with Styl Skinner on this one - if it was about choosing then it would be not different then the before mentioned clothes or cars. Creating, is the ultimate form of self-expression.
f0rTyLeGz
Reply #3 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:24 AM
Reply #3 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:24 AM
Well, sure, the making of the wallpaper is the Art. I guess what I was trying to say is that wallpapering may soon become really popular, because this particular choice seems, to me, to be highly expressive. It's easy, and highly visable, and catchy just to do it... something like that.
Styl-X Design
Reply #4 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:36 AM
Reply #4 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:36 AM
Wallpapers have always been very populair, but gets boring.
Bring it to the extreem and skin.
thats why my new slogan:
Styl-x. Designs to make a diffrence
Bring it to the extreem and skin.
thats why my new slogan:
Styl-x. Designs to make a diffrence
Raithe
Reply #5 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:48 AM
Reply #5 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:48 AM
Personally I would like to see some good DX designs. I am not saying that they all look bad, but I have yet to see someone create one that has a good balance of design and art! They are usually shining examples of art and poor design! They either possess to much or to little fuctional components!
Styl-X Design
Reply #6 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:50 AM
saw snowman making a desktop X out of my site in the september desktops 
Personlay I don't use desktop X, don't know why I would, my desktop is pretty complete, als don't use objectdock etc.
just windowblinds, cursor xp, sysmetrix, and icons ofcourse.
Reply #6 Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:50 AM
saw snowman making a desktop X out of my site in the september desktops 
Personlay I don't use desktop X, don't know why I would, my desktop is pretty complete, als don't use objectdock etc.
just windowblinds, cursor xp, sysmetrix, and icons ofcourse.
IPlural
Reply #7 Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:19 PM
This is something I am wanting to do eventually. Not that there are not some excellent DX themes, but that I want to be a part of those putting them out... Art and Functionality combined into a feeling of comfort in the combination of the two.
anyway....
Reply #7 Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:19 PM
| Raithe - Personally I would like to see some good DX designs. |
This is something I am wanting to do eventually. Not that there are not some excellent DX themes, but that I want to be a part of those putting them out... Art and Functionality combined into a feeling of comfort in the combination of the two.
anyway....
Sugaree
Reply #8 Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:25 PM
Reply #8 Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:25 PM
OMG I never thought of wallpaper being this deep before...
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #10 Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:51 PM
Reply #10 Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:51 PM
'clean slate' 
except I thought it was 'tabula'
[Message Edited]
except I thought it was 'tabula'
[Message Edited]
Snowman
Reply #11 Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:56 PM
Slight correction there Styl: My screeny shows a Hoverdesk theme - I have never an most likely never will make any DX themes (but then again, who knows, stranger things has happend before )
Reply #11 Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:56 PM
| saw snowman making a desktop X out of my site in the september desktops |
Slight correction there Styl: My screeny shows a Hoverdesk theme - I have never an most likely never will make any DX themes
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Reply #1 Saturday, September 27, 2003 10:40 AM