[Razor VinT]

Chuck Anderson is the creator of Windows 7's default wallpaper, login screen and box art.

He is the embodiment of the dreams of thousands of DeviantArt users—he started out in screenprinting just after high school, worked for t-shirt maker Threadless by day and began creating a name for himself in the online art community by night. Under the pseudonym NoPattern (now the name of his design shop), he achieved incredible success at a startlingly young age: You've seen his work before on projects with Pepsi, Urban Outfitters, Reebok, and many more.

His designs for Windows 7 will literally be seen by hundreds of millions of people over the lifespan of the OS.













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[PurplePeopleEater]

Lucky man, he's like living a dream right now. The default wallpaper is awesome too, it's one that I actually used for a short time, the XP default I didn't really like and the Vista one was meh

[Secured Tim]

Not bad, but you can find better artists on WinMatrix's Released Icons and Wallpapers thread.

[PurplePeopleEater]

Secured Tim, on 06 November 2009 - 03:08 PM, said:

Not bad, but you can find better artists on WinMatrix's Released Icons and Wallpapers thread.

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lol, agreed

He also made a pretty sick chrome theme:
http://www.nopattern...?project_ID=114

This post has been edited by PurplePeopleEater: 06 November 2009 - 09:55 PM

[Laguna]

Nice to see how he imagined it. I LOVE the final result

PurplePeopleEater, on 06 November 2009 - 10:54 PM, said:

Secured Tim, on 06 November 2009 - 03:08 PM, said:

Not bad, but you can find better artists on WinMatrix's Released Icons and Wallpapers thread.

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lol, agreed

He also made a pretty sick chrome theme:
http://www.nopattern...?project_ID=114

Impressive!!

[Bill_Puertas]

extremely pussy!!!!!!!!!

[zool]

lolz.. at least its better than Vista..

[adrynalyne]

Better than the puke look of Ubuntu. Seriously, they need to rework that crap.

[coldemone]

ubuntu doean't have money for the hiring or contests.

[adrynalyne]

So they have the money to send out free CDs, but not take one budding artist from dA like MS did to make some kickass artwork?

This post has been edited by adrynalyne: 07 November 2009 - 06:09 PM

[fediaFedia]

I personally don't like these new backgrounds, too plain. IMO the Windows Aurora series were the best default wallpaper and login made for windows...

[coldemone]

adrynalyne, on 08 November 2009 - 01:45 AM, said:

So they have the money to send out free CDs, but not take one budding artist from dA like MS did to make some kickass artwork?

yes, lol. Probably too busy fixing Ubuntu craps.

[adrynalyne]

What do they have to fix? They don't write 99% of the OS.

They just let the OSS community do it for them.

This post has been edited by adrynalyne: 08 November 2009 - 10:43 AM

[Bogo]

The box art and login screen wallpaper look good.


The default wallpaper is terrible.