Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers (iPhone Edition)
Ugly Christmas sweater wallpapers featuring Clarus the Dogcow, Happy Macintosh, and a bunch of iconic Apple graphics.
Over three years ago, on December 09, 2020, I published only my fourth wallpaper: The Basic Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpaper. It was a wallpaper featuring my logo fashioned in an Ugly Christmas Sweater style. It was ridiculously time-consuming because I had no idea what I was doing (and still don't) and because it comprised thousands of threads that needed to be individually tinted to create the desired effect. I promised myself I would never do something like that again...
Promise broken. After a three-year hiatus, I am back with another round of ugly Christmas sweater wallpapers. To simplify my life, I stuck to a more contained colour palette and limited my design for the iPhone. The result is a pair of utterly garish wallpaper featuring the Happy Macintosh & Clarus the Dogcow in various festive colours.
In addition to the festive knit patterning on each wallpaper, I've incorporated some timeless Apple iconography. At the top is a row of pixel-knitted iPods; below which is a row featuring the Command symbol. In the middle of the wallpaper are either the Happy Macintosh or Clarus the Dogcow, icons designed by the legendary Susan Kare for the Macintosh in 1984. Below that is another row of Command symbols, followed by a row of iconic Macintosh symbols, including a mouse pointer, spray can, file folder, and trash.
Created inside Sketch, each wallpaper comprises 20,765 threads that have cramped my hands on multiple occasions to align and colour. In my typical design process, once the vector image had been completed, it was moved into Pixelmator Pro, where a bit of shading, noise, and colour touchups were performed before uploading it here. I don't expect these to look good in the slightest on your devices (they're ugly Christmas sweaters, after all), but I hope you enjoy them nonetheless. Consider it a small Christmas gift, as I wish everyone a restorative, peaceful, and joyous holiday season and Happy New Year.
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happy Macintosh
Clarus the Dogcow
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