This room has always had one simple rule: everything in it is a gift. The Nem5 presents collection gathers free wallpaper, stationery and web graphics for you to download, use, and enjoy — no charge, no catch, just the old generosity of the handcrafted web.
What's inside
- Desktop wallpaper — original artwork sized for your screen, to make an ordinary day a little brighter every time you glance at it.
- Email stationery — decorative backgrounds for your letters, from the era when even an email could be dressed up with care.
- Web-graphic linkware — backgrounds, buttons, borders and ornaments for your own site, free to use with a friendly link back.
- Seasonal treats — special sets that appear with the holidays and the turning year.
The gift economy of the early web
"Linkware" is a word younger visitors may not know. In the first era of the web, artists routinely gave their work away and asked only for a link in return — a handshake rather than a transaction. It built a culture of astonishing generosity, in which strangers dressed one another's pages in beautiful things for the sheer joy of it. That instinct later found a formal home in movements like the Creative Commons, which gives makers a clear way to say "yes, please share this."
Nem5 was born inside that gift economy and never outgrew it. Everything here is offered in the same spirit it always was: freely, warmly, and with the hope that you will pass a little of it along.
A gift received with care
When an artist offers a graphic freely, notice the wishes that travel with it. Read the note beside the image, keep the maker’s name attached when one is present, and give the requested link back clearly. Linkware depends on that simple exchange: the visitor receives something lovely, while the maker receives a path by which another visitor may find the original home. If the terms do not suit your project, choose a different gift rather than changing the rules.
Practical courtesies matter too. Save a copy to your own computer instead of making your page pull the image from someone else’s server. Keep an untouched original in a clearly named folder, then adjust a separate working copy so you can begin again if an experiment goes wrong. Use the artwork only in the setting for which it was offered, and pass its credit and directions along if you share it with a friend. Small habits like these keep generous exchanges pleasant for everyone.
How to use your presents
Downloading is meant to be simple: choose what you like and save it to your computer. Set a wallpaper as your desktop; dress an email in stationery; place a graphic on your page. If you use a piece of linkware on a website, a link back to Nem5 is the only "payment" ever asked — and even that is a courtesy, not a toll.
Getting the fit right
A little care makes a downloaded gift look its best. For wallpaper, choose the size closest to your screen and let your system "fill" or "fit" the rest; a landscape image nearly always sits more comfortably than a portrait one behind your icons. For a tiling background on a web page, save the small seamless tile rather than a single large picture — it will load faster and repeat cleanly. And keep your originals in a tidy folder; the wallpaper you love today is the one you will want to reinstall on your next computer.
Using linkware kindly
The gift economy only works if everyone plays fair, and the rules are gentle but real. Do not strip an artist's signature from their work. Do not turn around and sell what was given to you freely, or offer it on your own site as though you had made it. When a link back is requested, give it gladly — it is how the next person finds the well you drank from. Treated with a little courtesy, linkware keeps a whole community of makers generous. Treated carelessly, it teaches them to stop sharing. Be the visitor who keeps the tradition alive.
For coordinated artwork, visit the web-graphics room; to send a bit of joy to someone else, the card studio is always open. However you fill your arms on the way out, remember the house rule: it is all a gift. Take it, and be glad.