Dezeen promotion: the top three wallpaper designs in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition have been revealed, and their designers have shared the thinking behind their work in interviews with Dezeen.
From a longlist of five entries in the Next Mobile Wallpaper Paradigm category, the judges chose Kalle Järvenpää's Garden of Galaxy, Guan Hong Yeoh's Blossom of Galaxy and André Cardoso's Approachability of Galaxy for the final shortlist of three.
The competition asked entrants to design new ideas for wallpapers for Samsung Galaxy devices such as smartphones and tablets.
The jury of designers Stefan Scholten and Paul Austin, executives from Samsung's IT and Mobile Communications division, and Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson considered all five of the finalists' projects in a live judging session in London in September.
The top three contenders will now travel to the Samsung Developer Conference from 29 to 30 October in San Jose, USA ? along with the top three finalists in the Next Mobile + category, which focused on mobile accessories ? where the winners will be announced. The top three mobile accessory designs were also announced on Dezeen today.
As well as the awards ceremony, mock-ups and artworks of all ten longlisted works will be on display in San Jose.
Read on for interviews with the top three designers about their designs below.

Kalle Järvenpää, designer of Garden of Galaxy
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