Here in Sweden, our days grow short and dark this time of year! Sparkling, white snow makes all the difference, it lights the landscape up so!

I am happy to present two new winter wonderland desktop pictures to brighten your day and perhaps your night! Or your short day... All depending on where in the world you are!

Snowy Day, is a tranquil, bright winter landscape with drifts of snow and a gleaming sun. A perfect winter wallpaper for a really minimalist, peaceful and uncluttered, snowy desktop look. Bringing some life to your desktop while still helping you stay productive and focus on the task at hand.

The next winter themed wallpaper is Snowy Night, a desktop picture with a magical, moonlit winter wonderland. Blue and white snow drifts, the full moon and a starry sky.

This month members of of Club Marmalade Moon receive a December desktop calendar version of Snowy Day, so sign up now to get your desktop calendar directly!

Day or night? Take your pick! Or take both! Let these snow wallpapers inspire your day, brighten your day. Or decorate your computer desktop with Snowy Night and Snowy Day to celebrate the winter holidays!

Tags: Scandinavian, desktop calendar, winter, snow, seasonal, holiday, nature, celestial, celebration, desktop customization

I am delighted to be featured in Swedish Illustration, “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!

Tags: publications, Scandinavian, Swedish design, illustration

According to a Swedish legend, there was a cobbler who each year put up a sign that said "Closed Between Bird Cherry and Lilac".

And this is indeed an enchanting time of year! Beautiful and intoxicating early summer. When veils of green leaves open on the bare branches. The heady scents of blossoms. Fresh shades of greens and bird song.

Every year I keep thinking that I really ought to do what the cobbler did! Hang up a sign on the door and take a few weeks off to indulge in this time of sheer beauty. And every year it turns out to be a busy time of year!

I had to do something about it so last week I spent the day walking all over Djurgården in Stockholm. I was dizzy with summer! Lunch in the fruit orchard at Rosendals Trädgård under clouds of cherry blossom was almost too much to take in. Breathtaking.

Back in the studio I worked on this desktop picture with an orchard with cherry trees in bloom which originally was inspired by a letter from Japan. But that is a different story! Trying to give the image this almost ethereal feeling I had in the orchard... And perhaps a bit of a story book quality!

Now you can customise your desktop with Cherry Orchard wallpaper. Available in several sizes and variations for different types of monitors and set ups. There are fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone and iPod Touch versions so pick a good one!

Tags: seasonal, floral, summer, spring, nature, Japanese, Scandinavian, desktop customization

Today I was happy and excited to get my copy of Swedish Illustration, a book that I am being featured in!

"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.

Tags: publications, Scandinavian, Swedish design, illustration

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, Scandinavian, seasonal, nature, holiday, desktop customization