Everyone loves customizing new toys and making wallpapers for your phone is probably one of the easier ways to do it (a lot easier, for example, than trying to find an inexpensive yet good-looking protective case!). I took a selection of images from Project Koru are turned them into three thematic wallpaper sets for my iPhone using this great Photoshop template.
Blue Welly
We love Wellington. We miss it and this makes us feel blue at times; the Windy City also has blue skies more often than those above us in England. These are evident in the Blue Welly wallpapers, featuring public sculptures around the city. The images in this set show:
- The Fern Ball in the Civic Centre;
- One of the totem poles on the City to Sea Bridge;
- One of the metal nikau palms outside the Public Library;
- The Weta Workshop Tripod in Courtenay Place.
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Blue welly iPhone wallpapers
Godzone patterns
New Zealand has a lot of different landscapes in relatively close proximity, making it an ideal place for the photographic pursuit of natural pattern spotting. The images in this set show:
- The golden sands of Abel Tasman National Park in Golden Bay;
- The leaf structure of the New Zealand tree fern;
- The rippled surface of Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough Sounds;
- A dense stand of manuka (NZ tea tree) on the slopes of Mt. Taranaki (looking rather like a wooden barcode).
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Godzone patterns iPhone wallpapers
Kiwi icons
I've touched on iconic Kiwi symbols before (and noted a couple of icon sets). The images in this set show:
- A Little Spotted Kiwi as seen on Kapiti Island;
- The distinctive flower stalk of a New Zealand flax;
- Kina, the native sea urchin;
- A pohutukawa in full flower;
- A kiwifruit in cross-section with some Photoshopping to extend the flesh;
- A koru.
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Kiwi icons iPhone wallpapers
To download the wallpaper sets go here.
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Awesome job, Bruce!
Will this work on an iPod Touch too? :-P
You're the man I'm counting on to try that out Henk! iTouch has the Photos app so add the downloaded image to an iPhone album that you are synching, then after sync open Photos on the iTouch, bring up the wallpaper image you want, then touch the box with the arrow coming out of it in the bottom left corner and choose Use As Wallpaper. Next time you power on the device you should see the wallpaper at the slide to unlock screen, and when the passcode entry screen is being shown.