Resources. Leather bound book with green apple.

Its time for a new icon contest! Tell me what you want me to design for you! If you could pick one icon, that you’d have an enormous use of, what would it be?

I’m going to design a new collection of beautiful and handy icons. There will be around ten icons in the set, based on the ideas of the winners who’ll get the collection for free!

This time the theme is taking care of business, whether it’s the administrative aspect of your life such as filing taxes, planning your next vacation, dealing with your budget or running a small business, it makes it much more fun and easy when you can locate what you need with ease! Adding beauty to your digital space will make these tasks more enjoyable too.

As an example, this icon of a leather bound book and a green apple with dew from the Organizer Collection is an icon symbol for “resources”, but it would also work for “to read”, “legal”, “stash”, “research”, “reference”, “writing”, “book”, “learning”, “teaching”, “nutrition”, “tutorials” or anything else you feel that it represents.

Which files and projects do you need to find with ease? What kind of files and folders do you create on a regular basis? What do your most important and favourite projects look like? It might be an icon that’s a metaphor for documents that need printing, receipts from online purchases or sales, travel expenses, itineraries, art and crafting supplies, invoices, marketing materials, there are endless possibilities! You can enter the competition with one idea for an icon and one idea for the name of the set.

I’d love to hear if you have more ideas or thoughts around the project, but to make it fair to everyone, your main idea will be the one that you can enter the competition with.

The deadline for the icon contest is in two weeks, Friday 19th of March. So take the chance to influence this collection of icons with your ideas and thoughts and needs. Win the icons you really, really want! Please comment to enter the competition.

I just sent out the winter issue of limited edition desktop goodies exclusively for members of Club Marmalade Moon. This time I made an assortment of festive ribboned holiday gifts in the same style as the collections of Productive Icons.

Five presents in silver, green, red, white and gold to put your desktop in the holiday spirit. These icons come in very handy if you’re giving someone a digital present. I also adapted the holiday gift design into a desktop wallpaper.

Not quite sure how to customize your digital environment? Check out the Help Desk where there are tutorials both for Windows and Mac. It’s easy and quick! Then join the Club for limited edition desktop art. What are you waiting for?  It’s fun and free!

Happy Holidays! Merry Desktop!

Desktop Holiday Gifts

Cupcakes of Happiness by Susannah Conway

Aren’t they delightful, these Cupcakes of Happiness by photographer Susannah Conway of Ink on my fingers?! Simply irresistible!

I love how grey brings elegance and sophistication to pink and was inspired to design a set of pink cupcake icons with a matching cupcake desktop wallpaper. Strawberry, violet, raspberry, orchid and cherries.

This delicious, limited edition desktop art is available for members of Club Marmalade Moon, so join the club if you haven’t already!

Pink cupcake icons

Wallpaper with pink cupcakes.

As summer deepens, progresses, turns towards autumn, my balcony garden turns into shades of blue and purple that bring bumblebees and butterflies to visit. Lavender with bluish-purple flowers and slender, aromatic, grey-green leaves. Mint and chives in purple blossom. The purple haze of Perovskia, Russian sage. Tuscan Calamintha with its cloud of light purple blossoms and its intoxicating scent! Salvia Caradonna, is a real drama queen, with exquisite regal purple flower spikes, on purplish-black stems stained with reddish violet, towering above the foliage! And deep purple, almost black, aubergine ripening.

All these electrifying shades of blue and purple as well as a getting the late summer blues, has inspired me to create both a collection of icons and a wallpaper.

Oh, I love purple! My balcony garden has given me so much inspiration for a much anticipated, brand new collection in the popular series of Luminous folder icons! This time it’s a volume of Purple folders.

This colorful series of icons is my take of the folder icon in Mac OS X Leopard. A minimalist folder icon to help you stay productive with neatly organized projects, and in style too! The series comes in a wealth of colours, to brighten your digital landscape and make it personal or to color code your projects.

You’ll find the Luminous Purple Folder Icons on the Icons page.

This summer I’ve been experimenting with minimalist, geometric compositions.

Blue and geometric, is the theme for my new desktop wallpaper. Inspired by September’s birthstone, the sapphire. Members of Club Marmalade Moon also receive a September desktop calendar with this motif.

Save this wallpaper to your computer.

Designed in a bold and direct style with rich colours and a Scandinavian sense for natural textures, these icons put Swedish design to your desktop and in your designs. Supporting your Workflow, helping you stay Organized and Creative.

This unique project has been designed based entirely on ideas from you who visit Marmalade Moon. Ideas that you have exceptional use of in your digital environment. Crafted with great attention to detail, to bring both style and performance to the time you spend on your computer. Everything from the icon concept to the simple and elegant style is based on feedback from you. I hope you enjoy these icons!

Three new collections of icons that bring productivity and beauty to your desktop. Each collection comes with an elegant wood or leather folder icon that you can download as a free sample. Check them out and let me know what you think!