Siggi Eggertsson's geometric explosions feature in a great new screensaver

“The older I get, the more interested I become in form and beauty. Siggi Eggertsson’s new screensaver is filling some of that need in design.” As testimonials go this is pretty special, even more so when you consider it comes from Stefan Sagmeister, who knows a thing or two about visual brilliance. Saver Screensson is a screensaver for Mac OS X by Siggi and developer Hjalti Jakobsson, which “creates unique patterns on your display by randomly stacking vector stencils to create a virtually infinite, but aesthetically consistent set of possible outcomes.”

In fact through its potential pairing-up of 340 stencil patterns and 19 colour palettes, Siggi and Hjalti believe there are 19 nonillion combinations (that’s 19 followed by 30 zeros). The pair met at a gaming tournament when they were teenagers and have been collaborating on web projects ever since, but Saver Screensson is their most ambitious to date. As for that curious name, Siggi explains: “In Iceland we don’t really have family names, instead your surname is traditionally your father’s first name, with -son or -dóttir added to the end. Since Saver Screensson is a direct descendant of the screensavers, we thought it was an appropriate name.”

In a bid to get their baby out there, the screensaver is offered on a pay-as-much-as-you-want basis which should see it popping up on creatives’ computers everywhere (including Stefan Sagmeister’s).

You can check out and download Saver Screensson from the website.