A large amount of creative people out there spend a healthy portion of their day with eyes glued to their desktops. Sometimes it’s nice to be able to daydream though the daily doldrums and pretend you’re somewhere else. Since 2005, the folks behind the Desktopography project have done their part in helping to make the daydreams of creatives a tad bit more tangible. Each year, the project — founded by Pete Harrison — releases a multitude of downloadable nature and topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers, as a way to bring a spark to otherwise two dimensional computer screens. So far for 2008, there have been 38 astonishing images added to the already impressive library of 75 from the previous three years. If your work station needs some sprucing up, we highly recommend a trip over to their site.

Wallpaper…it’s pretty much always on display. However, not all wallpaper on display is as eye catching as that which currently gracing the walls of the ground floor at colette. The Paris retail store has the honor of hosting an exhibition of Pottok wallpaper by famed designer Geoff McFetridge. The exhibition is made up of several of the artist’s prints and patterns created with water-based inks and recyclable paper on some serious hand made silk-screens. If you just so happen to find yourself strolling down the rue Saint-Honoré we recommend checking it out.

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To many people, wallpaper is just paper you put on your wall to make it look like you possess some flair for interior decoration. However, if those same people were to take one look at Frequencies, the latest line of handscreened wallpaper by Brooklyn-based Graphic Designer at Jill Malek, they'd see that it has the potential to be a living breathing entity, or at least mirror the behavior of one. Taking her cues from the frequencies, cycles in surrounding nature, such as precipitation, the sounds of crashing waves, the human heartbeat, the phases of the moon and the stages of animal life; Malek's remarkable creations capture the essence of many natural occurrences we may take for granted by mimicking their fluctuating patterns and using metallic and tone on tone colors that are certain to bring even the most dull of domiciles to life.

We know you look back fondly on those high school days of zoning out to your trippy Pink Floyd black light poster in your bedroom, and while you may have outgrown that zoning out phase that doesn’t mean you’ve outgrown the need for having your wall illuminated with imagery. Jonas Samson has designed a high-tech, light-emitting wallpaper proving it “possible to use a two-dimensional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.” So not only can you toss that black light, maybe you should say goodbye to your desk lamp that you’re always knocking over as well. There’s a new light fixture in town, and it’s on your wall.

However, if you should feel like giving your new light emitting wallpaper a rest from its illumination duties, it retains its effectiveness as plain ol’ wallpaper. If your other wallpaper starts to get jealous and begins to light up you may just have poltergeists in your home at which point we’d recommend relocation to somewhere not built on an Indian burial ground.

We love Jan Willem Wennekes, aka Zeptonn. We love his silliness, his monsters, and his humorously fitting scholastic background in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. We’re also pretty into his new designs for blik (a vinyl art company that, incidentally enough, we also love), two awesome wall decals that feature more of Zeptonn’s classically fun-hunting beasts. Also, some good news: last time we wrote about Zeptonn, we painfully reported the sold-out status of his art book, Stingermania, however, judging by the reappearance of said book in the pages (wallspace?) of blik, the situation has been pleasantly rectified. You can even nab the book for cheap(er) if you buy it along with some Critters or Tumblers, so go get ‘em!

If the inside of your home resembles something you might see on an episode of MTV Cribs but the outside looks like the Amityville Horror House, perhaps you should think about mowing your lawn or maybe getting rid of that aluminum siding in favor of something more, well, aesthetically pleasing. Lucky for you, Award winning British-born designer Susan Bradley has just the cure; with her latest laser cut outdoor wallpapers — that’s right, outdoor wallpapers — Ms. Bradley effectively translates the principles of modern interior design to your courtyard and back deck. These unique 3-D designs not only serve as decoration, but can also multi-task as a one of a kind trellis, amongst other things. So go ahead, turn your house inside out. Your neighbors will thank you.

A reader hoping to help Heather spice up her new digs directed our attention to trove, a New York company specializing in some of the most visually arresting wallpaper I’ve ever seen. If my lease were any more lenient, I’d be all over this errai print — and almost any other of their stunning options (which in some ways resemble art-directed petrie dishes). The papers are print to fit the future space in order to limit waste, and are also available in customized color combinations for more demanding design requirements, because in case you hadn’t noticed — wallpaper is so hot right now.

You know from past coverage that we’re always pee-in-our-pants excited about using wallpaper to brighten up a space, but Surface View offers some great murals that make some patterned wallpaper look as boring as white walls. The England company’s joined forces with different cultural institute groups, like the Victoria and Albert Museum, tapping into their archives to come up with a choice of visually interesting wall pieces. Among the good picks are the pictures from the Land of Lost Content collection, which star retro and kitschy images like a decorated donkey or a sunset overlooking a trailer park. If you’re looking for something more classical, check out the pastoral countryside scenes in the Classic Masters section. All the murals are customizable, allowing you to crop any image the way you want.

For those not in the know (ie: living under a rock), an atelier is a workshop or a studio. Atelier BLINK is a Belgian design company founded last year by Emilie Lecouturier and Céline Poncelet. With the stated objective of creating “unexpected features in familiar things which are not always detected at first glance,” BLINK has cultivated an aesthetic that is at once surprising and traditional. Even one of their quirkier productions, a rug with a photograph of flea market finds printed on it (shown above), is tastefully done in black and white. It’s just as likely complement the rest of the room as it is to draw attention to itself. But my favorite Atelier BLINK product—and the one that is getting the most press—is their patterned wallpaper. I’ve been in many old houses that have similar wallpaper, but to walk into a newer, younger space and see this wallpaper would certainly be unexpected, though not unwelcome. I mean, who doesn’t want Kama Sutra wallpaper in their bedroom? It’s a whole lot classier than having centerfolds taped up there for “inspiration.”

I love wallpaper. If possible, I would cover every inch of wallspace in my apartment with papers by Deborah Bowness or Dan Funderburgh, and then I’d probably move onto the ceilings, floors or perhaps even my the cats I am forced to co-habitate with.

Okay, that’s a little nuts, but I’m serious about the love-factor. There’s something so classy and glamorous about a room plastered in a bold, over-the-top pattern, something that just screams sophistication and elegance to me. Then, I discovered Surrealien’s line of custom wallpaper and I could barely wrap my mind around it. Taking into consideration the placement of lights, pictures and doors before the paper is even printed. The result is a warped, surreal pattern straight out of a Dali painting, yet something so natural looking it takes a few moments to register in your brain. When it does, though, be prepared for the awe and amazement to sweep over you.

Domestic was launched as an alternative to wallpaper, where wall space can become the field for a game of composition and narration into which a lot of effort and inventiveness can be put. Check out their collection for wallpaper ideas from dozens of international design talent. A single 150×100cm piece will run you around 70 Euros, but you’ll surely be the only one on your blog with walls like these.