{"id":2173,"date":"2009-12-06T04:27:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beingmanan.com\/wp\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2010-03-28T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T11:53:39","slug":"wallpapers-theme-high-res-rejected-windows-7-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2009\/12\/wallpapers-theme-high-res-rejected-windows-7-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"[Wallpapers &#038; Theme] High Res Rejected Windows 7 Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo did a very interesting <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5395720\/ask-the-artist-how-windows-7s-iconic-home-screen-evolved\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with the artist behind Windows 7\u2019s default wallpaper &amp; login screen, Chuck Anderson also designed the box artwork for Windows 7. Anyhow, the Gizmodo interview showed the rejects but they were sized at 700 pixels in size for not allowing us to enjoy them as our desktop backgrounds. But. Yes, but, Microsoft un-intentionally gave out <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/on10.net\/blogs\/larry\/Progression-of-the-Iconic-Background\/\" target=\"_blank\">720p versions<\/a> of these images, of course there was some work involved at my end and this isn\u2019t the first time someone at Microsoft has done <a href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2009\/02\/sometimes-microsoft-ies-act-dumb\/\" target=\"_blank\">something<\/a> like this. So here are 8 of the rejects at high resolutions, good enough for your desktops. Here are the wallpapers:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Click to download.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145822792\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_01_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th03.deviantart.net\/fs51\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/4\/7\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_01_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1229&#215;768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145822892\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_02_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th09.deviantart.net\/fs51\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/6\/1\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_02_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1229 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145823140\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_03_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th08.deviantart.net\/fs51\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/b\/f\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_03_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1229 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145823298\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_04_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th06.deviantart.net\/fs50\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/b\/1\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_04_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1229 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145823435\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_05_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th08.deviantart.net\/fs51\/300W\/f\/2009\/339\/5\/0\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_05_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1227 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145823617\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_06_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th00.deviantart.net\/fs51\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/6\/2\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_06_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1366 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145823673\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_07_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th07.deviantart.net\/fs50\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/5\/0\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_07_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1366 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/download\/145823831\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_08_by_mav3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/th05.deviantart.net\/fs50\/300W\/i\/2009\/339\/b\/b\/Windows_7_Rejected_Artwork_08_by_mav3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1229 x 768 pixels<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve taken the liberty to compile a Windows 7 theme. The theme consists of the 8 images &amp; the sound scheme is \u2018Garden\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cid-7a9d87fa129538ef.skydrive.live.com\/self.aspx\/Public\/Rejected.themepack\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/beingmanan.com\/dl.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/448242\/Rejected.themepack\" target=\"_blank\">Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All credit to Microsoft &amp; Chuck Anderson. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High resolution images of the rejected Windows 7 artwork for wallpapers &#038; login screen by Chuck Anderson of No Pattern.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2009\/12\/wallpapers-theme-high-res-rejected-windows-7-artwork\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7K6iCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[553,577,235,483],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-and-internet","category-microsoft","tag-customization","tag-themes","tag-wallpapers","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}