Life Organizer a Flexible, Minimalist Magnetic Life Planner
24/12/08 01:04
Life Organizer is designed to be a highly flexible and customizable time management tool. You can use Life Organizer as a magnetic organizer to plan, schedule, organize and dream. Create your personal vision boards or to make a perpetual magnetic calendar. Get organized in just a few minutes with this highly flexible time management tool. It really couldn’t get any easier!
In time to turn over a new leaf in 2009, Life Organizer is here to make sense of your chaotic fridge door or to bring some peace to your favourite magnetic surface!
Read more About Life Organizer, take a look at The Life Organizer Blog or head right over to the store to check it out!
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How Developers Can Make Their iPhone Application Stand Out In The Crowd
09/12/08 12:51
148Apps put together a clickable mosaic of all the application icons in the store that allows you to click on any of the tiny icons to go to the Apple store for full details.
TapTapTap made the trendy icon mosaic of an iPhone (seen on the right) to celebrate the event.
100,000 applications is a staggering amount! So how can software developers get their iPhone software to stand out in the crowd?
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Get The Inside Story on the Professional Design Process of Icons
08/12/08 19:51
Guides for Setting Up a Wacom Tablet
18/11/08 14:58
Though I have had a Wacom tablet for quite a while, I suspected I wasn’t really getting the most out of it and I wanted to find out what I was missing out on...
Luckily, you don’t have to set your tablet up very often and luckily, I found two really helpful tutorials on how to set up your Wacom tablet.
This is a great tutorial on how to get started with the Wacom tablet and use it in Adobe Photoshop.
Wacom Settings In Illustrator from Vectips
An informative guide on to how to set up a pen tablet to get the most out of using it Adobe Illustrator.
Got the Blues? Think Pink?
19/10/08 01:49
I was fascinated to find that the idea of pink being a feminine colour and blue a masculine colour, was a convention that in Western culture, started in the 1920s and got established in the 1940s.
"If you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention." [The Sunday Sentinal, March 29, 1914.]
Before that, blue was for girls because it was considered more delicate and dainty, and pink was for boys because it was regarded as more masculine and fierce - a paler shade of red.
"There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." [Ladies Home Journal, June, 1918]
Interesting, I thought. To see how a cultural idea can change, even reverse, and to think about how much these cultural ideas influence us.
Related links:
Pink - Wikipedia
Out of the blue and in the pink by Ben Goldacre - The Guardian
She Says Who's Your Momma!
08/10/08 12:18
She Says is a group of female top designers who hold events and one-to-one mentoring by some of the industry's best. The organisation operates in the UK and the US, but is opening more chapters internationally.
“The world is pretty much half men, half women. So why are there so few of them at the top on ad agencies, digital or not? We decided to stop chatting about it and do something - hold events, where top females in the industry would share their thoughts and help people to either get started or work their way up. To the attractive pay packets, private car parking spaces and buckets of champers at the top.”
Oh, and She Says will even feed you with wine, beer, and a black olive or three! So what are you waiting for!?
New Art Book: Swedish Illustration
24/09/08 11:47
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“a guide to 149 of Sweden's most
exciting and innovative illustrators”!
The book is now available at Amazon.com and at
major bookstores in several European
countries as well as in the USA, Asia and
Australia.
Swedish Illustration
covers a wide range of work, there are
illustrations from children's books, book
covers, fashion illustrations, technical
drawings, textbook illustrations and travel
books as well as the illustrators' personal
projects.
“Showing the current trends and offering uniquely Swedish insights about creative interpretations, this engrossing picture book for adults is simply a pleasure to peruse, not to mention a fabulous source of top-class professional illustrators and a cornucopia of inspiring ideas.”
Well, what can I say!? How exciting!
Private Eye: Limited Edition Art Prints
28/07/08 11:52
Five new limited edition art prints are now available at the shop here at Marmalade Moon!
This collection of prints is called Private Eye and are a few of the images I displayed at my art show.
Private Eye is dark, grainy and gritty. It draws inspiration from the hard-boiled school of crime fiction, from the authors Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and from their time.
Leopard and the Updated HIG: A Designer's Guide to Icons
04/04/08 12:26
Smashing Magazine delivers useful, inspirational and innovative information for designers and web-developers and it's a great pleasure for me to contribute to such a creative designer environment!
Aqua: "Gorgeous, artistic icons are an important part of the Mac OS X user experience. Users expect beautiful icons that tell an application’s story in a clear and memorable way". Well, how do icon designers go about creating beautiful icons in 512x512 glory? Leopard and the Updated HIG: A Designer's Guide to Icons examines Aqua's interface. Realism, symbols, silhouettes, transparency, light source and perspective. We take a look at the Dock, Leopard's file browser Cover Flow and the icon sizes. Finally you will find some practical tips on how to scale your art work so that the smaller versions become crisp and clear.
Come In! We're Open!
15/03/08 20:29
I am glad to announce that I have opened a shop here at Marmalade Moon!
I have designed a collection of brand new cards with seasonal motifs! You will find tulips, forget-me-nots and lilacs bursting out in time for spring as well as roses for when summer grows ripe. Colourful maple leaves for the autumn. Crisp snowflakes and orientally inspired pine tree patterns for chilly winter's days. Handy for birthday greetings, thank you notes, holiday greetings or just to let a friend know that you are thinking of them.
This is all part of my celebration of Marmalade Moon's 10th anniversary!
Swedish Illustration
28/02/08 19:14
"The guide to the most exciting and innovative illustrators in Sweden today. The book illustrates the current trends – offering uniquely Swedish insights about innovation and creative interpretations."
Swedish Illustration will be presented at The London Book Fair in April and at The Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buch Messe) in October.
The book will be distributed in several European countries as well as in the USA, Asia and Australia.
Update 092308:
Swedish Illustration
is now available at Amazon.
Introducing xScope
30/01/08 22:23
This handy tool really is a “Swiss Army knife” for designers and developers. xScope is a powerful set of tools to measure, compare, and contrast literally anything on the screen. xScope will increase your productivity and free you from mundane tasks like measuring on screen elements.
Version 2.0 introduces Dimensions. This tool is like laser tape measure for the screen that projects a beam out from your cursor instantly finding the edges of images, margins and blocks of text. The days of taking screen shots, opening them and measuring them by hand are finally over!
xScope will change the way you work and take all the effort out of measuring onscreen elements.
An Iconfactory and ARTIS Software production.
Designing the Digital Room
08/04/07 18:04
I was recently interviewed by SvD Näringsliv, if you
speak Swedish you can read the interview here:
Design i digitala rum.
Art Show
30/03/07 13:03
April 14th-26th 2007
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday 12-16
Saturday and Sunday 13-16
She Said No to Jobs and Gates
14/02/07 19:21
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jonas
Hållén at Dagens Teknik. Alexander Ruas was the
photographer.
