THE BEST Wallpapers

Etsy shop AJ Wallpapers offers highly detailed wallpapers, floor murals, and more that have a convincing 3D effect. One of its products is this wallpaper featuring vintage speakers. It’s a great gift for audiophiles and music lovers. Available on stick-on vinyl or woven paper.

Twenty2 collaborated with interior design professor Sarah Strauss and her students to create Deep, a collection of anaglyphic 3D wallpapers. We’re not sure if they come with 3D glasses, but they’re cool on their own.

Redditor nite4awk is making a series of Calvin & Hobbes wallpapers. But instead of just using the comic strips, nite4awk cut out the two characters and integrated them into photographs of our world.

Brighten up your walls with these wallpapers from pixel art group eBoy with supersized versions of their isometric cityscapes and eye-popping patterns. Contact Wallpaper Republic to order.

Dress up your walls Sith style with the Imperial Forces wallpaper. It’s hand-screened and flocked and features textured portraits of Darth Vader, Boba Fett and Empire troops.

If you prefer your wallpapers to be simple and uncluttered, check out Simple Desktops. The site is filled with minimalist wallpapers, most of them featuring just a single color with one drawing.

Believe it or not, that’s a wallpaper. Concrete Walls are exactly that – pictures of concrete walls turned into wallpapers. There are a couple of brick walls and ones with graffiti as well.

Cool Vibe scoured the vast reaches of the Web and gathered 40 Star Wars wallpapers. Some are based on video games, some on cartoons, but nearly all of them feature the great Darth Vader.

Different elements in each overlapping print are revealed depending on the use of red, green or blue light in this series of wallpapers Carnovsky designed for Italian wallpaper brand Janelli & Volpi.

Check out the Desktop Wallpaper Project at art and design blog Kitsune Noir for some of the best wallpapers you’ll ever see, pre-formatted for PCs, the iPhone, PSP and even the iPad.

Andy Awesome’s art is exactly that: technically consistent (it’s all about circles) and relevant to geeks (Star Wars, Simpsons), it’s also freely available as iPhone and desktop wallpapers.

Be still, our 8- and 16-bit hearts: DesktopGaming is a great collection of desktop wallpapers from classics such as Super Mario Bros, Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Design You Trust has a collection of 84 retro-futuristic images available as a RAR file. They’re mostly collected from German magazines; several are perfect as desktop wallpapers.

We’ve seen Justin Buonvino’s 3D Super Mario Bros. scene before, but we had no idea he’d created more. He’s got over a dozen here, including scenes from Duck Hunt and Excitebike.

Created by German graphic designer Heiko Klug for Desktopography, Tiny World is a brilliantly executed wallpaper, even with all the balloons. You can also purchase a print here.

Citylight is a trippy, sci-fi meets aurora borealis meets urban graffiti wallpaper by Polish graphic designer Kamil Kotarba. Click here to download the wallpaper (it’s a RAR file).

Available at Vladstudio.com, Planet Earth Inversed is one of those wallpapers that has you poring over the creative details. The neutral color scheme is easy on the eyes, too.

Desktopography has been around since 2005 providing lush outdoor-themed wallpapers. Our favorite is Blue Moon, a fantastical portrait of the Earth flanked by myriad satellites.