Pretty intriguing, Sean. Which did I like the most? Probably Vonster’s, because I know I couldn’t handle so much happening on my desktop. Kudos.

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@David – As you can see from mine, I don’t think I would be able to handle that much stuff on my desktop either. I can’t stand having anything but my hard drive.

I am however, an icon fiend, and probably change my dock icons daily..

I like Mike Kamanski’s. We “give” of ourselves daily…

I have to agree with David. Vonster probably took the most effort and actually inspires me to do that on my Mac.

I can’t believe I was the only one to have your standard photo I use my desktop for all of my current projects – similar to Von. Hottest photo goes to Rod Ligtenberg, best art goes to Dayane Straub. Rob Alan gets a highly commended for being able to work with the default background.

Thanks for including me in your great collection. Very interesting to see everyones workspaces. I love mine, but I vote for Paul Le Comte…love the open feeling, with the interesting smaller images and the printing registration marks layout. Very cool.

@nathan, I was surprised that you were the only one to have a family photo as well…

Ooh I really like Paul Le Comte’s and Brandclay’s. I also agree that Vonster’s makes me want to be that organized. For my setup, I always need motivation: http://www.twitpic.com/st3o2/full

Postra’s desktop is almost the same way i set mine up

Glad to see my lonely window included there, haha. Great post. It’s interesting to see what other people are working with every day. I’m also surprised at the number of dock icons. I can only have a few at a time or I feel messy.

I like Matt Dunn’s because the dock has an interesting relationship to the window image. Very artsy!

The image on Rod Ligtenberg’s desktop is incredible! I want to be there.

left to right for my dock: finder, firefox, postbox, things, illustrator, photoshop, candy bar, tweetdeck, quicksilver, trash

thank you candy bar

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I’m surprised to see another stock background image (Rob Alan) besides my own. I am jealous of the dock on his though. I am also shocked by the volume of dock icons and even more so by the volume of toolbar icons! I enjoy the simplicity of Sean’s whole setup but it would be rigged if he were to win the prize!

@Klaman, Matt you know I can’t win It’s for everyone else, but if I’m going to ask you all to show yours, I have to show mine, right?

Love the post, thanks for this. Vonster’s desktop is a great idea!

@clif- hahha i have that as my iphone background

Hey thanks, but my link doesn’t work. Interestingly, I thought most designers would prefer the minimal and tidy desktop, so I’m surprised to see the amount of very busy/photographic desktops. Cool post!

I created my desktop organizer about 12 years ago. I like to keep current projects on my desktop until I finish them. This helps me keep them organized and I re-arrange based on priority if needed. My colors associate with my own work and rep work and personal projects. I do have a method to my madness. ;-P

@brian, fixed! sorry about that.

@Vonster, pretty smart, but I think you should spruce it up, give it a bit of your illustration spice

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So, no love for the designers that use a (gasp) PC?

I wish I could vote for all of the fellows with uTorrent open, but since I can’t – I vote for my own.

i vote for mike kamanski cuz he knows a good font library management system.

it’s fun seeing the similarities and differences we have in our software. kind of amazes me how some people can work with only 3 or 4 in their deck… and also amazes me how desktops lkie vonsters can exist and yet work for them.

and im surprised no one else uses geektool!

i guess i would have to vote for von’s too on that basis. (didnt notice you also used linotype fontxplorer… but i guess you cant blame me for not seeing it the first time around right?)

Hey thanks for putting my desktop up.

Nice to represent New Zealand typography here

Vonster gets my vote!

I like LBOI’s too, simply for the shameless self-promotion ; )

I like Paul Le Comte – Kiwiana!

I really like the Holiday one!

Sean, thanks for the include.

Obviously, Vonster has the most interesting and revealing desktop for undoubtedly a very busy guy.
As for me, mine has my happy place to look at when things get too crazy.
Nice post.

i’ll leave it open til the end of the weekend, but it looks like Von is the leading the pack

Awesome! Thanks for using the Pid’jin wallpaper!

I’m going to toss a vote Paul Le Comte’s way- like the out of the box feel he has. I can really appreciate Von’s as well- I used to run a similar setup. I created a background with regions in it for each project. I also used the color labels in OSX to divide them (green=print, purple=web, red=logo, etc). I had ‘To-Do’, ‘Proofed’, and ‘Stalled’ areas- worked pretty well. That workflow changed though once I got dropbox up and running. Can’t beat syncing all of your projects via the cloud in my opinion.

Also as a little bit of a preface to mine, the ‘MacBook Mini’ reference pertains to the fact that this is a screenshot of my little Dell Mini 9 netbook running OSX at a resolution of 1024×600. It’s a little orange beast.

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