I've put together a wallpaper design free for all to download free. It illustrates various environments blended together in inside the 3D text "Actions," and serves to remind us that it's time to start Changing our Actions to avoid continued climate and environmental issues our world faces. This download is part of Blog Action Day, which this year is focused on "Climate Change." Learn more at the jump, and download this wallpaper!
Blog Action Day 2009
This wallpaper design is part of Blog Action Day 2009, a worldwide initiative started by Envato founders Collis and Cyan Ta'eed, now being run by Change.org. Blog Action Day exists to change the conversation on the web for one day by uniting thousands of bloggers around one important issue - this year, Climate Change. It's not too late to register your blog and participate.
Free Wallpaper from Alex Beltechi
I've created an organic wallpaper design for you to download free. It illustrates the text "Changing Actions" by embedding various climate images inside the 3D text. Blending various climate images and related animals inside the word "Actions" shows how we need to start changing our actions now to preserve our environment and avoid continued global climate problems. You can see more of my work in my Behance Portfolio.
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Conceptual Development of this Design
Creating this typographic illustration for Blog Action Day has been a very exciting project. The words I use in this illustrations are mere excuses for practice most of the time, so it was a relief to have a well defined topic and to be a part of something so important.
The demand was for a positive and inspiring message, and after some art direction from Sean Hodge, we settled on the words "Changing Actions." I intended to not only show a rich and diverse natural environment, but also a different kinds of impact that man can have on the world. Instead of destruction and damage, the focus is on preservation and protection.
The way that this concept took form was by placing all the nature elements inside a clean and simple typographic layout. The letters became a haven for several ecosystems, which I blended seamlessly throughout the word "Actions." After creating the text in Cinema 4D, I scoured the web for nature stock photography and began to slice up the images in place. Throughout the process, I used a pen tablet to modify, recreate, and draw elements in place.
I hope this message finds its way to your desktop, and drives you take action!
Check out a section of detail in this design below (100% zoom).
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )mosi October 15th
tanks
( )very nice.
Melody October 15th
Love the concept of this design and your attention to detail..
( )T1 Rex October 15th
Absolutely outstanding graphics. Congratulations on a great job and a contribution to Blog Action Day
( )Jonas October 15th
This looks really really nice!! Thanks for sharing
( )I’d love to see a more detailed tutorial about this…… come on psdtuts!
MoonBoy October 15th
Amasing
( )Modisana October 15th
that is clean and beautiful
( )bart the vart tart mart October 15th
cool, It is now my background
( )T.Robert October 15th
Awesome ideea
( )Mark Dijkstra October 15th
Pretty cool!!
( )elephant woman October 15th
Well, thanks for sharing.
But wouldn’t that make a good tutorial?
( )I start to forget why I should still visit this site, when there are no more tutorials, that are free AND useful. I mean this is your choice and your site. I know I can stop visiting, but I can’t imagine that this is what you want and I was actually enjoying this website too. But when you started purchasing money for your good tutorials, the rest of the site really lost its reason to exist.
jp October 16th
@elephant woman +1
This would make a GREAT tutorial !!! And more free tutorial would be great …
Don’t forget it all started like this …
regards
( )Luci October 15th
Beautiful wallpaper, very clean and clear. Why did you choose the images you did for the inside of ‘Actions’ – they’re brilliant, but I was just wondering?
( )Michael Davis October 15th
Wow this is so amaizing!
( )McH October 15th
Beautiful. I would like to see a tutorial to build up a graphic like these on.
( )mr wiggle October 15th
too small, my monitor’s native res is 2048 wide
( )spiderm0nkey October 15th
So extend it? It’s a near white background and this is a bloody photoshop tutorials site lol. Use photoshop. Make a new document that fits your screen resolution. Paste this image into the document. Pick the white colour from the document and use the paint bucket to fill the rest of the canvas. For the texture, grab the clone tool and clone some of the dark patches so that you fill the whole canvas. It’s really not that difficult mate.
( )Simon October 16th
lol, spiderm0nkey your post made me chuckle – too true!
Omer October 16th
lol yea he just likes to whine, some people would cry no matter what the content is.
very nice walpaper!
spiderm0nkey October 17th
Haha. It had to be said. I mean… really…. -.-’
g3niuz October 15th
looks fresh…
( )changed my wallpaper
Ionut Ciursa October 15th
Great work, Alex! I like it very much. This is a wallpaper that will stay on my desktop for a long time.
( )Marshall October 15th
Well done!
( )Luke October 15th
Awesome! Where is the tut for that!!!
( )Aevion October 15th
Beautiful!
( )ehab October 15th
how i download this tutorial
( )lawrence77 October 15th
This is not a tutorial, this is wallpaper only
( )Jake October 15th
Dang thats amazing!
( )2mnyshp October 15th
a real changing action wallpaper would be plain black.
( )Smiffy October 15th
I must say, I really find the end result creative, never really seen anything like it. great work
( )loswl October 15th
This is some seriously good work, would love to see a Tut
( )Lyle October 15th
Man, you have to do a Tut for this design. Brilliant concept! 5 Stars.
( )Brent Nelson October 15th
Excellent design.
( )Brent Nelson October 15th
Animals actually KILL each other. Someone has to stop this!
( )Symon October 15th
Sweeeeeeeet. Many thanks.
( )kelly October 15th
I think it’s gorgeous.
The only thing is that my eyes keep trying to find a reason why the “C” in “changing” isn’t falling down. Doesn’t appear anchored to anything while the rest of the text appears solidly grounded.
( )Matthew booth October 15th
Wow… I LOVE how the word “ACTION” starts as 2-D and progressively becomes deeper and more 3-Dimensional. I think global warming is a sham
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/scientists-increasingly-dissent-global-warming-proponents
However, I am still totally for a cleaner Earth and “greener” ways of living and respecting the planet.
( )Brent Nelson October 16th
Totally.
( )Darshana October 16th
Thanx & Nic e work, how do it, pls load this tutorial like,
( )THNX
elephant woman October 16th
pretty smart move not unlocking my negative comment… it kinda reminds me of china…
( )elephant woman October 19th
ok, i take it back. sry for bein an ass.
( )Sean Hodge October 20th
Sometimes it takes a little while for comments to get moderated.
Alex October 16th
Did he use Photoshop?
( )Giallo October 17th
Wow amazing!!!
( )mokin October 18th
Very nice for graphic, cool idea
( )http://www.my-picz.co.cc October 19th
Very nice for graphic, cool idea
( )Redstage Magento October 19th
Nice concept. I really enjoy how it turned out.
( )James October 20th
Man, I love this!
( )Chykalophia October 25th
It’s a great artwork
( )vanbasten October 25th
Wow this is so amaizing!
( )Cucu Tudor Ionel (Crimzprod.) October 28th
Congrats ! so beautiful !
Added on tutorials I like !
http://crimzprod.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorials
( )kaiser November 2nd
SIMPLY WOW!
a lot of tuts just repeate some kind of look or use the same technics used for other tuts or are just low level and have a medium result, BUT THIS WALLPAPER: WOW AND WOW! especially “from earth to water to the north pole” and what impresses me pretty much too is the color-balance of every part of hte digital nature. deeply impressed… gratulation
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