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Earth Day Wallpaper Design Challenge

Lesley Yarbrough Last updated: March 21, 2024 · 2 min read

Ah, Spring is in the air. Snow is melting, flowers are blooming, and cities are coming to life as people venture back into the outdoors to enjoy the beauty springing up around them. What better time than now to take a moment and celebrate this wonderful planet of ours.
Creatives, here is your mission should you choose to accept it:

Challenge

Design a 1920×1200 desktop wallpaper that celebrates the Earth and features at least one asset from Creative Market. It can be as small as a texture or as big as a font and it can even be something you sell in your own shop.

How to Enter

Comment on this post with a link to your design and a link to the Creative Market good(s) you used to help create it. You can submit as many entries as you like and entries will be accepted until midnight EST on Sunday, April 21st.

Winners & Prizes

After all the entries are in, our staff will select our top three favorite designs. Each of the talented winners will receive $50 in marketplace credit, one of our swanky Creative Market t-shirts, and a tree planted in their name.

Tree planting

(Photo credit: alexindigo)

If that sounds like fun, here are a few goods from the marketplace that can help get you started.

  

  

  

  

  

  

Happy creating! We can’t wait to see the great wallpapers you guys come up with.
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24 Comments
  • To me Earth Day is about the beauty of our mother planet. I wanted to focus on the beauty she presents even during the ugliest of seasons. The photo used is from Brarie Beach in Canada. I took it during one of my trips. It was a windy day so all the sand was flying, it was during March of last year when the snow had stopped falling and was transitioning into spring. The location was mostly isolated but that's why I was able to take the photo. I was there with my little one and thought about the wonderful sights I could show him. That is why I used the quote. It is a Native American proverb that is the perfect fit for Earth Day. The photo is completely natural. No manipulation has been applied to the photo. All natural light with flash off. The only change to the photo is the addition of the quote and the CreativeMarket name. It's not the kind of entry I've seen, but I thought of just sharing the quote. Good luck to everyone! https://dl.dropbox.com/u/65958930/premium/earthday.png Font: Taiga URL: http://crtv.mk/f0Zn 13 years ago
  • Beautiful photo and concept, thanks so much for entering the challenge! 13 years ago
  • Yay another contest! Here's my entry http://dribbble.com/shots/1020846-Earth-Day-Wallpaper/attachments/122280 I really wanted to make something fun and retro for this so I decided to make icons that represent Earth Day. I was inspired by the badges that Girls Scouts and Boys Scouts give out for accomplishments. It would be so awesome if we got a badge for every good deed we do for our Earth :D I used things from my set available here http://crtv.mk/t7r6 13 years ago
  • Here's my entry: http://brittanydeighton.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/earthday.jpg My concept was just to keep everything simple and relaxed kind of like a walk in the woods :) Font: Narwhal (https://creativemarket.com/thewarehousedesign/3509-Narwhal) Icons: Parks and Rec (https://creativemarket.com/thewarehousedesign/1368-Parks-and-Rec-50-Outdoor-Icons) Texture: Letterpress Texture(https://creativemarket.com/thewarehousedesign/2463-Letterpress-Textures-Brush-Pack) 13 years ago
  • @Alice Mongkongllite That is gorgeous. Love the choice of color and the overall style. Excellent! I would love to buy a poster of that. @Brittany Deighton Beautiful photo! 13 years ago
  • The Wallpaper: http://cl.ly/image/0i452E282P2S The Goods: http://crtv.mk/t7r6 13 years ago
  • Really loving all of these wallpapers, nicely done guys! Here's mine: http://flic.kr/p/eaCZEm The photo was taken during the Creative Market team trip to South Carolina last September. We all got to hang out on the beach one afternoon and take a bunch of photos and I snagged this shot as we were heading back at sunset. Goods used: Narwhal (http://crtv.mk/f6yu) and Pattern & Grunge (http://crtv.mk/hrF) 13 years ago
  • Hello, nice challenge. Here is my entry: http://www.norademi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/earth-day-2013.jpg What I used: https://creativemarket.com/do2design/3273-Tree-collection :) 13 years ago
  • @Nora Demirjian super cute! Thanks so much for entering. :) 13 years ago
  • Added the entries so far to our Facebook page: http://crtv.mk/r8Y6 Feel free to share! 13 years ago
  • My entry, just for fun: http://dribbble.com/shots/1027126-Earth-Day-Wallpaper/attachments/123588 Created using https://creativemarket.com/kosbarts/3881-Zona-Black and https://creativemarket.com/SparkleStock/3300-Prestalgia-25-Retro-Light-Leaks-FX - Two awesome items! I can't recommend them enough. 13 years ago
  • Anonymous
    Awesome competition! My entry is: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21847808/EarthDay_Wallpaper_1920x1200.jpg Created using my own photo, taken near Mahia, East Coast New Zealand; 'Farmers Co-op' Font: https://creativemarket.com/kylewaynebenson/3287-Farmers-Co-op-Five-Weight-Family; and a vector from "Viola's Vectors" 13 years ago
  • Here's my (updated) entry: http://www.jackfahnestock.com/images/earthday-wallpaper.jpg Resources used: - Speckles & Noise (http://crtv.mk/i2tK) - Unchained Texture Pack (http://crtv.mk/i8mL) - Vintage Texture Action (http://crtv.mk/r6HK) Good luck to everyone! 13 years ago
  • @jimjams @Jack Fahnestock Two great entries, lovely stuff! Thanks for taking part guys! 13 years ago
  • Ooo! another challenge :) My Entry - http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/earthdaychallengewallpa.jpg/ Texture used - https://creativemarket.com/photomelange/270-PhotoMelange-Grunge-Textures-2 13 years ago
  • I love how you guys do these challenges. They're a ton of fun. Looks like there are some great entries so far. Here's mine: http://goo.gl/B8OLJ Goods in Use: - Abolition (http://crtv.mk/e83H) - Millie (http://crtv.mk/f29z) - Vintage Texture Action (http://crtv.mk/r6HK) 13 years ago
  • Had some time to kill and thought I'd join in on the fun! Also gave me a great excuse to buy the Bourbon font: https://creativemarket.com/mattox/3010-Bourbon-Rough-Typeface Here's mine: http://payload155.cargocollective.com/1/9/294695/5403258/creativemarket_wallpaper_1920x1200_1_o.jpg 13 years ago
  • I love the photo! @Liam McKay 13 years ago
  • Nice one, @Topher Edwards 13 years ago
  • Just updated my entry: http://www.jackfahnestock.com/images/earthday-wallpaper.jpg Resources used: - Speckles & Noise (http://crtv.mk/i2tK) - Unchained Texture Pack (http://crtv.mk/i8mL) - Vintage Texture Action (http://crtv.mk/r6HK) 13 years ago
  • This is my second entry. This one is about kids performing a play. The design uses the Taiga Font and several selection of vectors (from here and other places, forget which and there are many). https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65958930/sazzad/playful-kids.png 13 years ago
  • @Jack Fahnestock Cascade canyon! Awesome entry :) 13 years ago
  • @Brian Reavis Haha, thanks man. I actually didn't know that. I just grabbed the pic off pixabay. 13 years ago
  • Alrighty, all the entries have been updated here: http://crtv.mk/r8Y6 and the team will be going through today to vote on their favorites. Thanks again for taking the time to enter the challenge! All of these wallpapers turned out so great. :) 13 years ago