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25 Coolest Laptop Covers

by Blake Besharian on December 19, 2008 at 11:58 PM



These days, laptops have become much like cars -- we take them everywhere, and if you have the same model as someone else, it's hard to tell them apart without looking inside. As a result, we all know that special someone whose solution is customizing their laptop with bumper stickers. Maybe it's an Obama sticker placed over the Apple logo on their MacBook, or maybe the top of their Dell looks as though their eight-year-old daughter decorated it with her sticker collection.

Well, if you or someone on your shopping list for this holiday season has a slightly more refined sense of personal decor, you might want to check out our top 25 picks for the best laptop sticker designs selected from the Web sites gelaskins and infectious. These sites offer stickers perfectly sized for the top of your Mac or PC laptop, as well as decals for your car, iPhone, iPod and wall, or anywhere else you care to stick these latex masterpieces.

25 Coolest Laptop Covers

    JP33 - This laptop design is hip like an MTV commercial. It makes us think we're looking at Manhattan from the rosy glow of a rainbow filled forest, located somewhere on a mountaintop in northern New Jersey. If anyone finds this vantage point let us know.

    Andy J. Miller - Andy's laptop design is titled "Happy Hippy Clouds", and if there's someone on your list who likes psychedelic owls perhaps this is the design for them.

    Beared Fish - Bearded fish is an anonymous art collective based in San Francisco, and they love Nacho Libre. We love their laptop sticker, by the way it translates as "Wings of Faith versus The Rainbow."

    Dalek - Dalek is well known in the world of commercial and fine art collecting, and he has emblazoned numerous toys and other products with his signature style combining Takashi Murakami's superflat(his former boss) with a graffiti sensibility. Now he's done a laptop design for infectious, and its necessary for you to add it to your Dalek collection.

    Dennis McNulty - This design is called Urban Wallpaper and we think the clean vector graphics and bizarre mix of farmers, weapons, mopeds and animals is pretty swell. Dennis also has two other designs, (a rooster and a piece entitled squarecrows) that are similar in style to his paintings on gas cans and other found objects, which gives you the chance to turn your computer into one of his sculptural paintings.

    Devin Lawson - Here's a laptop design for that Burlesque fan on your list the Dita Von Teese inspired Car-tini by Austin based Devin Lawson.

    Etsu Meusy - Etsu Meusy's wonderland is a beautiful candy colored retro dreamscape that will look great on the back of your daughter or your wife's laptop.

    Andy Harling - Most of the laptop designs being produced right now are targeted toward the kind of audience that likes to cover things with stickers. Andy Harding's cool abstractions combine wood grain and retro Eaames-esque patterns and designs that speak to those with a slightly more refined taste.

    Jeremy Evans - Jeremy only has one laptop design on Infectious but the colorful forest shapes have us mesmerized.

    Junko Mizuno - Junko is an incredibly popular and prolific graphic novelist whose work adapts western fairy tales to her twisted anime sensibility. Her "Zodiac Girls" laptop designs might be the perfect gift for your astrologically minded anime fan friend!


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