Last Christmas we designed a desktop background to share with our community - it was black, so it used less energy. It was extremely popular, so we thought we'd do it again this year... only this time, showcasing the talents of a another local artist...

Meghan Hildebrand is a contemporary canadian artist. Based in Powell River - an industrial town and the site for western Canada's first pulp and paper mill - Meghan's wonderful range of work is awash with colour and meaning, dealing with 'themes of man-made construction overlapping and superseding our environs, and what the shapes we leave behind say about us'.

This particular effort includes animal ghosts revisiting their former homes - a contemporary take on A Christmas Carol, if you will.

We've included a number of executions based on the size of your screen, as well as how it is formatted. The majority of Mac's - for example - have icons on the right, so you are best selecting an execution marked left, while the majority of PC's have icons on the left...

BE WARM, BE SAFE, BE HAPPY... THIS HOLIDAY SEASON FROM ALL THE FOLKS AT Ci.