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Posted by ryan | Posted on 17:20

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 02:00 PM PDT

In this article is collection of well designed Retro Wallpapers. When we say retro it mean any culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, or it can be used to simply mean “old fashioned” or old, “timeless” or “classic”. Sometimes, it can also suggest an entire outlook on life for example, social conservatism, home schooling, or the embrace of traditional gender roles. Retro can also be applied to forms of technological obsolescence, for example: manual typewriters, cash registers, bulky hand-held cell phones, or the resurrection of old computer games. Take your desktop to the past with this wonderful list of 100 retro wallpapers.

1. Retro Profile

Resolution: 1400×1050

2. Retro Wooden Wall

Resolution: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

3. Retro

Resolution: 1280×1024

4. Retro

Resolution: 1680×1050, 1280×800

5. Simply Retro

Resolution: 1440×900

6. Retro

Resolution: 1920×1200

7. Retro World

Resolution: 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1920, 1200

8. Retro

Resolution: 1280×800

9. retro

Resolution: 1280×800

10. Retro deluxe

Resolution: 1024×768

11. Retro

Resolution: 1680×1050

12. Retro Inside – Road66

Resolution: 1440×900

13. retro

Resolution: 1900×1080

14. Retro

Resolution: 1280×1024

15. retro stars background

Resolution: 1280×800

16. Retro

Resolution: 1680×1050, 1240×1024

17. Retro Wallpaper

Resolution: 1920×1200

18. Retro wallpaper

Resolution: 1280×800

19. Retro Apple Wallpaper

Resolution: 1280×800

20. Retro Sunshine

Resolution: 2560×2048

21. RETRO Wallpaper

Resolution: 2560×1600, 1920×1200, 1440×900

22. Retro

Resolution: 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1600

23. Retro Machina

Resolution: 2200×1400

24. Retro Freak

Resolution: 1280×1024

25. Retro Wallpaper

Resolution: 1680×1050

26. Cause an Effect

Resolution: 1600×1200

27. Retro Wallpaper

Resolution: 1920×1200

28. retro 955

Resolution: 1280×800

29. Retro

Resolution: 1440×900

30. Retro Wallpaper Suite

Resolution: 1680×1050

31. Retro

Resolution: 1280×1024

32. RETRO

Resolution: 1600×1200

33. Retro Mac

Resolution: 1280×960

34. Retro Concepts Version1.6

Resolution: 1440×900

35. Go Free…Style

Resolution: 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×104, 1600×1200

36. retro no.1

Resolution: 1280×1024

37. Retro City

Resolution: 1680×1050

38. RETRO Wave Wallpaper

Resolution: 1680×1050

40. splash retro

Resolution: 1600×1200

41. Retro Wallpaper -pack

Resolution: 1440×900

42. Retro Wallpaper Poster

Resolution: 1680×1050

43. Retro is Future

Resolution: 1920×1200

44. Retro Rainbow III

Resolution: 1280×770

45. Retro Computers

Resolution: 1280×960

46. Retro

Resolution: 1680×1050

47. Retro Mod

Resolution: 1920×1200

48. Retro

Resolution: 1600×1200

49. dark and joyous

Resolution: 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1350×768, 1280×800

50. Retro Party

Resolution: 1600×1200

51. Retro Abstract

Resolution: 1280×1024

52. Retro Wallpaper

Resolution: 1280×1024

53. Retro Sierpinski

Resolution: 1920×1440

54. .abstraction

Resolution: 1920×1200

55. Retro Car Wallpaper

Resolution: 1600×1200

56. Flower Power

Resolution: 1440×900

57. Retro Voyager, 1920 Preview

Resolution: 1920×1200

58. Grunge Retro Wallpaper

Resolution: 1440×900

59. Retro Converse Wallpaper

Resolution: 1280×1024

60. wallpaper retro style

Resolution: 1440×900

61. The Wolf

Resolution: 1280×1025

62. retro

Resolution: 3333×2500

63. Retro Wallpaper

Resolution: 1600×1200

64. Sweet September

Resolution: 1600×1200

65. Power Computing

Resolution: 1280×1024

66. Chowder goes retro

Resolution: 1280×960

67. :retro:

Resolution: 1920×1200

68. Retro Wii

Resolution: 1680×1050

69. 1967

Resolution: 1920×1200, 1920×1080, 1600×1200, 1600×1050, 1440×900, 1280×1024, 1280×800, 1280×720, 1024×768

70. Big City Nights

Resolution: 1440×900

71. THE MAEOR

Resolution: 1600×1200

72. Funkskulls

Resolution: 1280×800

73. RETRO ERROR

Resolution: 1440×900

74. Retro Vector V2

Resolution: 1900×1200

75. Expression

Resolution: 1920×1200, 1280×1024, 1024×768

76. I’ll fly ..

Resolution: 1500×1000

77. Infinity.

Resolution: 1280×960

78. If You Go Away

Resolution: 1280×800

79. kinda retro

Resolution: 1280×1024

80. S Y M P H O N I A

Resolution: 1600×1200, 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 320×400, 176×220

81. Technicolored Electric Sin

Resolution: 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1440×900, 1920×1200

82. Live a Dream

Resolution: 1440×900

83. Vintage Balloon – WP Pack

Resolution: 800×600, 1024×768, 1151×864, 1151×921, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

84. pink

Resolution: 2000×1880

85. Aurora

Resolution: 1440×900

86. Burst Of Blue…

Resolution: 1440×900

87. music on air

Resolution: 1600×1200

88. solar wind

Resolution: 1440×900

89. Mushtopia

Resolution: 1600×1200

90. Music

Resolution: 1024×1200, 1280×1024, 1600×1200

91. punk.rush

Resolution: 1280×1024

92. almost retro wallpaper

Resolution: 1366×768

93. Retro Lines

Resolution: 1600×1200, 1920×1200, 320×480

94. wallpaper retro

Resolution: 1680×1050

95. Retro

Resolution: 1440×900

96. Edge Xplod, 1920 Preview

Resolution: 1920×1200

97. It always rains on me…

Resolution: 1920×1200

98. The sky is the limit retro

Resolution: 3000×4500

99. Pink Flower

Resolution: 1600×1200

100. My Demons

Resolution: 1280×1024

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Learn the Basics: 25+ Sites And Resources To Learn Typography

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Typography has been practiced and used in our daily life. Range from handwriting in a pocket notebook to the big advertising billboard. It’s sometimes typed using Times New Roman in 12 points for newspaper. Others use Edwardian in 26 points for their wedding invitations. When a designer decide to use the right font for the right job, the typography itself become an art.

Learning typography seems to be easy at a glance, in order to achieve a great impact from typography for graphic and web designs isn’t so easy. Many designers found it as a complicated design aspects to practice. Below are the 25+ sites and resources we have selected to help you understanding typography basics in print or web designs, choosing the right fonts for your project, and guide you to create a good typography which aesthetically pleasing.

1. Learning About Type

There are quite a few terms thrown around with regards to typography. Hopefully this article will help you understand more about the world of typography. If this is your first true introduction to typography you probably underestimate the effect it has on the world.

2. Five Simple Steps to Better Typography

This is a series articles, each part explains deep knowledge of typography and help you to understand it more. The kind of typography in these articles is not your typ ical "What font should I use" typography but rather your "knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash" typography.

3. Type Is Sexy

This is more like an online book, but presented in interactive way. You will find basic understanding of typography from this site, from Anatomy 101 to The Rules of Good Typography.

4. Know Your Type – Starting Points For Typographic Inspiration

Not every typeface is the right choice for every job, this articles will help and guide you to understand and picking the right choice for different type of job or concept theme.

5. The Type Studio / The Written Word

This page offers links to a number of articles on typography, including PDF versions of archived. These cover individual typography topics in detail, for both online and offline applications (including pull-quotes, visual alignment, bullets, and emphasis, among more than 30 others).

6. Typographic Marks Unknown

There are many typographic marks which are familiar to most, but understood by few. Most of these glyphs have interesting histories and evolutions as they survived the beatings given to them through rushed handwriting of scribes and misuses through history. They now mostly live on our keyboards and in our software, and a few are used often, so it seems only fitting to know where they come from and how to correctly use them.

7. Periodic Table Of Typefaces

A reference table for most popular typefaces and their classifications.

8. Typedia

Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces. It is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them, very much like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.

9. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices

This article from Smashing Magazine gives you a broad knowledge of popular typefaces used in web design, also included with some case studies and inspirations.

10. The Right Font for the Job

In this article you will find four main ways fonts can differ, even if most of their letters look the same. Save, bookmark, or print this newsletter and ask yourself these questions the next time you're choosing type.

11. How to Choose A Font

Have you ever had the problem of not knowing what typeface to use? Well of course you have, everyone has. This is a guide on how to choose a font.

12. 11 Essential Tips for Good Print Typography

You can't just throw text on a page, it has to be laid out and organized in a clean way that adds to the information being presented. This article will give you 11 typography tips to help you convey information in print the right way.

13. A 20 Minute Intro to Typography Basics

This is an introduction for you who are still new in the design field. Its aim here is to introduce some of the basics and the most common areas of typography that will be important in your design work.

14. Fundamentals: Combining Type With Helvetica

In this article the Indra (the author) shares her favorite Helvetica companions with the following guidelines in mind: "Focusing on contrast makes combining fonts easier. Better not pair Helvetica (or other Neo-Grotesques) with another sans serif (like a Humanist Sans). Instead, choose a serif or a slab. Transitional and Modern (bracketed)serifs work quite well with Helvetica. So do most Garaldes like Garamond — it all depends on what kind of atmosphere you're aiming for. Browse the list of ideas below, or look for faces with broad proportions, a large x-height, or similar characteristics, like an uppercase 'R' with a vertical tail."

15. Four Techniques for Combining Fonts

This article gives you four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

16. How Do I Choose Paring Fonts?

This is an open typography forum regarding paring fonts. Get the suggestion or advice from the designers who have been professionally experienced in typography in this forum.

17. Beginners Guide to OpenTtype

OpenType (OT) is a cross-platform type format that includes expert layout features to provide richer linguistic support and advanced typo graphic control. This beginners guide will help to illustrate some of the more common features found in OT fonts and when they should be used.

18. Making Geometric Type Work

For graphic designers beginning to experiment in type design, a geometric or modular typeface is a natural starting point. Illustrator and other programs offer a simple collection of elements such as circles, squares, and triangles which can be combined to create a passable alphabet. This is not an argument against all geometric or modular typefaces, but simply some guidance on how to make them more readable, work effectively and be visually consistent.

19. Font or Typeface?

An article which discusses both font and typeface because these terms evolved over a considerable period of time and saw several transitions in technology, they can sometimes be interpreted in varying ways. This resulted in a terminology that is often perceived as at best esoteric, at worst plain confusing.