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Holiday Gift Idea: VladStudio’s Beautiful, Whimsical Wallpaper Clocks

This post has been corrected to accurately reflect its subject’s nationality. The post author was originally directed to the Italian version of the designer’s website, resulting in a misunderstanding as to his national origin.

Vlad Gerasimov is one busy guy. Proprietor of the outstanding design shop VladStudio, this Russian designer has created hundreds and hundreds of wallpapers, backgrounds and wallpaper clocks, a sampling of which is displayed in the gallery below.

Vlad has also created a few dozen PhotoShop tutorials that can have you designing like a pro in no time.

You can purchase a lifetime registration good for receiving higher quality, signature free downloads and Adobe source files until December 31st for $19.99, $10 off his regular registration fee.

This is great stuff and well worth checking out, a fine holiday gift idea for the artist or designer on your gifting list.

A Small Gift Booben Christmas Clock Christmas Lights
Eos 1 Jeans World Map Ladybug & Chameleon Letter Eater
Sparks Square Elephant Tenere Tree Underwater

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4 comments

    Italian? You sure, I thought he was russian.

    These are really beautiful… I just wish I could get the clocks to work. It looks like the downloads are supposed to be packages with a .wcz extension, but instead they are folders and the app won’t recognize them. :(

    His russian, not italian. :P

    Thanks for mentioning my clocks! If you downloaded WCZ files in last 8 hours and they are not working – this was a problem with my new web server. I updated it, and WCZ files are working again. Please delete files you downloaded and visit http://www.vladstudio.com to download them again. Sorry for inconvenience!

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