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Alfred Hitchcock backgrounds

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:20:07 +0000

I was given a DVD collection containing the early films by Alfred Hitchcock for Christmas this year. The box set cover art included a very good two colour profile of the master of suspense, in other words, perfect for scanning, tracing and converting to SVG!

I made a nice desktop background, and also a bonus variant with only the rough outline and signature.

Alfred Hitchcock in profile

Alfred Hitchcock outline and signature

Desktop background gallery

Sven Arvidsson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:21:10 +0000

I finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. The one feature making this worthwhile was the [ gallery] tag which makes it dead easy to add a gallery of images to a post.

I have collected all the desktop backgrounds I have made whilst mucking about in Inkscape and GIMP and added them in such a gallery.

I also added my newest creation, a poor attempt at recreating the poster for my favourite zombie movie:

Debian Etch Wallpaper

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:12:43 +0000

Last time i messed around in Inkscape I started doing a wallpaper celebrating the (upcoming) release of Debian Etch. (It could be used as a logo or for some promotional material too).

I don’t think I will get around to finishing it, so I will simply post the SVG file here and now if someone want to use it. It’s licensed under the GNU GPLv2. Click the thumbnail above for a larger image and the SVG.

New header

Sven Arvidsson — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:24:34 +0000

I made a new header image. The picture it’s based on is called “A Procession in the Catacomb of Callistus” courtesy of Liam’s Pictures from old Books. A great resource for public domain pictures and engravings.

Dark Side of the Moon wallpapers

Sven Arvidsson — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:12:59 +0000

I have created a couple of Dark Side of the Moon wallpapers, mostly as a way of getting to know Inkscape. They are by no means super accurate, but I guess they satisfy the most wallpaper starved Pink Floyd fans out there.

The first one is the original cover art, and the other is an alternate version that I think have been used both as a back side to the album and as a poster.

The wallpapers are in size 1280×1024 but can easily be resized to fit any screen using Inkscape or a similar vector editor. I claim no copyright on these files, and they can be considered public domain. However, if you feel like improving my work I appreciate if you show me the result :-)