Spending hours on your computer? How about a spring desktop makeover?

Marmalade Moon has created a new club to belong to. As May approaches, there is one more week to get the April Club Benefits!

I have designed three limited edition floral icons exclusively for members of Club Marmalade Moon. A Siberian Scilla. An exquisite tulip with striking, rosy apricot petals suffused with pink! A Pheasant's Eye Daffodil, or Poet's Daffodil.

April's Club Monthly comes as icons for Windows, icons for Mac and as images for personal use on your blog, website, as an avatar for your computer user account, forums, instant messenger and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. The images are all in png format and available in seven sizes.

Join now to get your free, limited edition spring desktop art!

Let your desktop bloom! 

Tags: icons, desktop picture, design, seasonal, bold, free, spring, floral

When MacPeople Lite in Japan featured my Soon Spring icons in their Spring 2008 issue I revisited the collection and decided to update the set to include fresh new versions for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista for this weeks release of icons at the Iconfactory.

But it was so much fun to work with these icons that I expanded the collection with five bold, new spring flowers! Inspiration was literally on the doorstep, with a few late Snowdrops and a sea of Scilla on the grassy slope outside the studio. Iris, Daffodils and Pheasant's Eye saluting the sun from the flowerbeds.

When I was designing these flowers I studied them and was fascinated by things I found out. That Iris, in Greek mythology, was the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. The optical phenomenon iridescence is derived from Iris' name and the fleur-de-lis is a stylized Iris...

Then I read that Pheasant's Eye daffodil, is also called Poet's Daffodil or Narcissus poeticus in latin... Isn't that just irresistable!?

And if you want to get it on paper, that spring is here, you might be interested in the Tulip card over in the shop where there are several cards inspired by spring.

Soon Spring icons come with a companion wallpaper: A Sea of Scilla. This desktop picture is available in several sizes for different types of monitors. There are fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone and iPod Touch versions so take your pick!

Last but not least, members of Club Marmalade Moon receive a bonus collection of Soon Spring icons and images for personal use on your blog or website or as avatars for your computer user account, forums, instant messenger and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace! Join the club to get your free April release of limited edition desktop art!

Tags: icons, desktop picture, design, seasonal, floral, nature, spring, bold, free, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, Mac, Windows

It never fails, every year I buy budding bunches of daffodils, when I shop for food at the market. A couple of days later I buy another bunch, soon the dinner table is overflowing with daffodils. And when the daffodils bloom I am startled at how anything can be so - well so very yellow...

As you might have guessed, I am designing some icons and desktop pictures on a spring theme. Bold and colourful like the brave spring blossoms. This spring desktop art will be ready to open its petals on your desktop next week!

Members of Club Marmalade Moon will receive bonus spring desktop art, so join the club to get your April release of limited edition desktop art, if you haven't done so already!

Tags: icons, desktop picture, design, seasonal, spring, nature, floral, bold, free, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, dual monitor, Windows, Mac

Sick of that boring, impersonal, generic computer desktop but not quite sure how to change it and make it yours? The Help Desk is open! Here you you can find out how to use icons to make your desktop personal and productive.

Step-by-step tutorials guide you through how to save desktop art to your computer with ease and change the desktop icons on Mac OSX or customize the icons on Windows, how to use system replacement icons as well as how to customise your desktop picture / wallpaper with just a few clicks. Tutorials both for Windows and Mac.

There is no need to worry about which operating system you are using! These simple steps work in both Windows Vista, Windows XP as well as the classic, older Windows operating systems. Mac users can use these tutorials both to customise Mac OSX Leopard, the previous verisons of Mac OSX and the classic older versions of Mac operating systems.

There is also a printable PDF version that provides a way for you to keep an offline copy or print a copy for later use. Sometimes it can be handy to have a printed version on one's desk, whilst going through the different steps.

It's fun and easy to beautify your desktop! To make your digital working and leisure environment personal, functional, practical, gorgeous, to give it the look and visual cues you want it to have!

Tags: tutorial, gui, guide, how-to, faq, customise, customisation, productivity, desktop, desktop picture, Mac, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista

I am busy creating more desktop art on the theme of the full moon. There will be a new set of icons with the full moon based on the colourful moons from the Total Lunar Eclipse Collection of wallpapers. I am planning a set that spans from silvery white, a harvest moon and blood red moons in explosive shades of red, orange, pink and palest lilac. Oh, and a blue moon too of course!

Also, on popular demand, I am remastering 'The Painted Desert', a desert landscape with moon. Adding new sizes for large monitors and for the iPhone and iPod Touch as well as dual monitor versions.

These are some of the ideas I am working on just now, so check back for this new set of icons with the Full Moon and for 'The Painted Desert' desktop picture.

Tags: icons, desktop picture, design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, free, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, dual monitor, Windows, Mac, Mac OS X

I designed three new desktop pictures with the total eclipse of the Moon available for download in the freebies section so that you can enjoy this dramatic celestial feast on your desktop.

'Under a Blood Red Moon', 'Glowing Coal Moon' and 'Burning Orange Moon'.

Tags: icons, desktop picture, design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, free, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen

I am making a new wallpaper for the celestial feast on Thursday, February 21, when stargazers will see the full Moon blush red as it passes through Earth's shadow in a total lunar eclipse! The colour of the Moon will change from silvery white to copper red or glowing orange when light is deflected by the Earth’s atmosphere and bounces back off the “blood moon”.

Shades of palest lilac, pinks, oranges and deep red all come together forming a Moon that resembles a glowing coal. So check back for a collection of new desktop pictures with the total eclipse of the Moon!

Further reading (external links):
NASA - Lunar Eclipse Page
Wikipedia - Lunar Eclipse

Tags: desktop picture, design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, free, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen

In time for Valentine's Day, this desktop picture with rose petals has been remastered for large monitors and for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

For a digital romance, or for a longing for deep summer, the heady scent of roses, the velvet petals.

Dress up your desktop in pretty petals over in the freebies section. Because desktop geeks have feelings too!

Tags: Valentine's Day, summer, seasonal, nature, free, design, desktop picture, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen

There has hardly been any snow in Sweden this winter so I had to make up for it in some way. I designed a winter wonderland desktop background with bold, crisp, stylised snowflakes to capture a winter atmosphere.

'Snowflake' Wallpaper is available for download in the freebies section. Enjoy!

Tags: snow, winter, seasonal, nature, holiday, free, design, desktop picture, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, dual monitor

Marmalade Moon wishes you a happy New Year and continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary with new desktop art; 'Celebration' desktop picture with Fireworks.

This wallpaper is available both for widescreen and fullscreen monitors as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. I am excited to also introduce some new resolutions as well as dual monitor wallpapers!

Here is a toast to absent friends, a toast to present friends, a toast to everyone who has visited Marmalade Moon!

Update: I made some changes to this wallpaper adding a little more detail. 15th January 2008.

Tags: seasonal, holiday, celebration, free, design, desktop picture, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, dual monitor

The Hieroglyphica collection of desktop art is a tribute to the mother of all written languages and of computer icons - the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs or 'Divine Words' as the Egyptians themselves called them. Hieroglyphs, symbols, pictographs, pictograms, icons...

In time for the holidays, 'Sandstone' Desktop Picture has been updated for some of our new icons of our modern times - Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

Icons from this collection: 'Hieroglyphica Vol 1' and 'Hieroglyphica Vol 2'

Tags: desktop picture, design, free, Egypt, hieroglyph, fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac OS X, Windows, icons, desktop picture

The Hieroglyphica collection of desktop art is a tribute to the mother of all written languages and of computer icons - the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs or 'Divine Words' as the Egyptians themselves called them. Hieroglyphs, symbols, pictographs, pictograms, icons...

In time for the holidays, 'Sandstone' Desktop Picture has been updated for some of our new icons of our modern times - Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

Icons from this collection: 'Hieroglyphica Vol 1' and 'Hieroglyphica Vol 2'

Tags: desktop picture, design, free, Egypt, hieroglyph, fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac OS X, Windows, icons, desktop picture

Over at the Iconfactory, we have released our whole library of wallpapers / desktop pictures especially formatted for use on Apple's new iPhone!

Now you can customize your iPhone’s background with any of the Iconfactory's fun,  graphic desktop pictures and make it match your desktop computer or just set your iPhone apart from the pack.

Busy days but I finally got some time to make application icons in the iPhonica style. So keep your eyes peeled for more goodies!

Tags: desktop picture, desktop, interface, design, iPhone, free