Japanese style clean desktop

I’ve always said that an uncluttered desktop is best because it gives you a sense of accomplishment, a free mind and a sense of beauty too. Icons and your wallpaper is an integral part of this, and today I found a great icon set list, with a beautful Japanese themed set named Yoritsuki icons.

Very detailed and masterfully crafted icons, although if you’re looking for meaning this is not for you. Only two “regular” icons can be found for folders, the others are of Japanese traditional items, associated with hot spring inns. I have no problem with this, and I am using these as icons for my current projects folders.

I couldn’t really find a good background image for them though, I tried them on a Bamboo wallpaper, but somehow they lost their charm, so I decide to make my own. It’s very simple, the idea was to let the icons be in the foreground, not the wallpaper image. It features a very simple bamboo like texture with one kanji on the top left. The kanji (Japanese symbol) represents destiny, in Japanese it’s unmei. Download the image using the following links, if you’d like a different resolution let me know and I’ll make one just for you! By the way, if you don’t find one for your resolution, you are inside about 4% of my viewers with different resolutions, congrats!

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