This year, the good folks at AIGA New York asked if I'd like to design one of the wrapping papers for their 2007 Holiday Party. Being quite the holiday enthusiast, I agreed, and put together a snazzy wrapping paper depicting four of the many cultural iterations of Santa Claus.

The only downside is that the wrapping paper isn't really available for purchase. In lieu of that, I have created a few desktop wallpapers to help spread my yuletide message of... uh... appreciating wallpapers with different Santas. Enjoy!

Time to dress up your computer, in the most festive of outfits: ones you get for free. These desktops are based on the Mojo's Goodwill comic, pictured above. Feel free to view the article to get a closer look at the comic, or even to leave a comment about how an inordinate number of Santas are arrowed-down each year, and how comics like this only increase the frequency of arrow-related holiday slayings. Or better yet, tell me that you enjoy Mojo's "crazy adventures".

Here's a look at the other desktop included with the comic:

Now... get downloading!

Not getting enough Mojo? Angry at me for providing less desktops than the "other guys"? Well, I've solved both problems at the same time! Just click on one of the links below to grab these excellent Mojo One-Off desktops, as previously featured in one of my snazzy articles.

Each link below will give you a .zip archive, containing all 7 desktops in the desired screen size. Click and download!
1024 x 768
1680 x 1050 (iMac screen size)
1920 x 1200

Hate these colors?

Just a note for you expert (or not-so-expert) photoshop users out there — should you wish to tweak the background color a little, these desktops are designed so that you can just use the "Hue/Saturation" filter on the .jpg, and it won't affect the black & white Mojo drawing. So feel free to change the desktop to whatever color of the 'bow you want, even though it's a flattened image.

Keep your desktop clean with a wallpaper of watercolor washes! And coincidentally, the washes form the image of a bear! And even more coincidentally, this site is bearskinrug, so a bear is an appropriate image for a wallpaper!

With all these convenient little coincidences, it's best you don't disrupt the harmony of the universe. So you better download this wallpaper right now and put it on your desktop. Do you want to be the one responsible for infinity's collapse?

Available Sizes

1024 x 768
1680 x 1050 (the screen size of my iMac)
1920 x 1200

If you're going to take your dog for a walk, it's probably best for you to stay below the Arctic Circle. And to help you remember why, download this handy desktop for use with your winter computer.

Available Sizes

I have taken the liberty of creating desktops at a few different sizes. While I wish I could accommodate the 750 different variations of desktop dimensions, I only had time to do four:

1600 x 1200
1024 x 768
1680 x 1050 (the screen size of my iMac)
1920 x 1200

From Favorite Website Awards, asking if I'd like to do a collaborative wallpaper for the launch of their new site. So I said "Sure!"

I searched through my pictures for a while, looking for something that would work, when I stumbled upon this photo of these orange sandbags. I took the picture at the Food Network, where my friend Jon works - he informed me that the bags are used to steady cameras, but people use them for all sorts of other things — in this case, a doorstop.

One note on this wallpaper. My approach to desktops is to just post the biggest one possible — which is usually 1600x1200 — and let the user cut it down to different sizes. However, for FWA, I created different variable sizes. So feel free to jump over there to grab a wallpaper for your 1280x1024 desktop. Or — God bless your perseverance if you need this one — your 800x600 desktop.

Oh that silly Mojo! What trouble will he get into next? Ahahahhaha!!! (Please tell me... I'm running out of ideas.)

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

Ahem. I'll just see myself out, thank you. Have a good night.

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

This photo is actually from my Honeymoon. It was the pool hall in the resort we stayed in - just about the only air-conditioned room in the whole place. Now, normally it's bad form to paint the switchplates, but I'll tell you what - I really think it works here.

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

This is a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.