I have been fascinated with yellow ever since the daffodils burst out in bloom! This new dual monitor desktop background with forsythia was inspired by Japanese designs and patterns - and yellow.

This month Club Members receive the Marmalade Monthly and a May desktop calendar. So head on over to the freebies section to get your Forsythia wallpaper and don't forget to join Club Marmalade Moon for even more exclusive desktop goodies!

Tags: design, seasonal, floral, spring, Japanese, iPhone, iPod Touch, widescreen, fullscreen, dual monitor, desktop calendar

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: design, seasonal, floral, nature, spring, bold, 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: design, seasonal, spring, nature, floral, bold, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, dual monitor, Windows, Mac

Announcing the release of a set of Full Moon icons based on the colourful moons from my recent Total Lunar Eclipse Collection of desktop pictures.

Customize your desktop with this set of icons includes nine variations reaching from a pale, milky white moon, through shades of yellow, glowing oranges and reds as well as some blue moons.

Full Moon icons are Leopard and Vista ready!

Tags: design, iPhone, desktop, interface, Mac OS X, Windows, Leopard, Vista, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon

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: design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, 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: design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, 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: design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, 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, design, 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, design, 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, design, iPhone, iPod Touch, fullscreen, widescreen, dual monitor

Let these snowflake icons designed in the iPhone style gently drift down on your desktop.

The collection of iPhonica Snowflakes includes large sizes for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista as well as versions for the older systems.

Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Marmalade Moon!

Tags: design, iPhone, desktop, interface, Mac OS X, Windows, Leopard, Vista, snow, winter, seasonal, holiday

This fun and colourful collection of iPhone inspired icons has been updated for modern systems.

The set is now complete with 512x512 pixel versions for Mac OS X Leopard and 256x256 pixel versions for Windows Vista added to the versions for the older systems.

Head on over to the Freebies page to download the updated collection of iPhonica Volume 1 icons for Leopard and Vista to your computer!

Tags: design, iPhone, desktop, interface, Mac OS X, Windows, Leopard, Vista

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: design, Egypt, ancient, historical, hieroglyph, relief, fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac OS X, Windows

I designed a new set of Halloween icons in the iPhonica style available for download over at the Iconfactory.

Tricky spiders, skulls, cobwebs, a pointed witch's hat, candy corn, ghosts and ghouls as well as some smashing pumpkins will crawl out of this collection of icons! Happy Halloween!

Tags: iPhone, design, desktop, interface, holiday, Mac OS X, Windows

I designed a new set of icons in the iPhonica style. This time it is application icons for iLife.

There are five icons in the collection, including iPhoto, iWeb, iDVD, iMovie and GarageBand. Download iPhonica Volume 3 at the Iconfactory!

Update: Since Apple redesigned the iLife 08 version of iMovie I added a second version of the iLife icon to the set – the iLife ‘08 version of iMovie.

Tags: iPhone, design, desktop, interface, iLife, Mac OS X, Windows

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, interface, design, iPhone

I have designed a system replacement set in the popular iPhonica style available for download at the Iconfactory. The set contains over 70 icons to customise your entire system in the simple and clear silhouetted style of Apple’s hottest new sensation, the iPhone!

Disclaimer, turning your computer sideways will NOT initiate portrait mode.

Tags: iPhone, design, system, interface, desktop, Mac OS X, Windows

Even I was surprised that there were SO many people longing for their new iPhones!

On popular demand I created a second set of iPhonica icons. Volume 2 of my series of icons based on the upcoming GUI of Apple's new iPhone is this week's freeware release over at the Iconfactory. The set contains 10 new icons. A rose for your iPhone Valentine. A snowflake for winter. And several more utilitarian icons too.

Tags: iPhone, design, desktop, interface, Mac OS X, Windows

Can't wait for your new iPhone? Turn your computer into a wannabe iPhone with 15 brand new iPhonica icons!

These iPhone inspired icons include icons for music, work, experiments, favourites, various forms of electronic communication, hardware as well as coffee, a dry martini, a slice of orange and of course your favourite game, World of Warcraft. 

Tags: design, iPhone, desktop, interface, Mac OS X, Windows