iPhone photography: hyacinths

In the December Issue of the Micro Magazine for members of Club Marmalade Moon:

• how to kickstart your New Year on your computer creating an attractive desktop with built-in organization
• “Espresso” pre-release of an abstract, geometric desktop wallpaper
• finding a sustainable approach to new year’s resolutions
• thoughts on the ebb and flow of creativity: “there’s nothing routine about passion”
• free, printable holiday tags
• pre-release of a collection of colourful folder icons

If you think it would be useful and fun to get insider sneak peeks, tips, pre-releases, members only desktop art and special sales at consistently irregular intervals, join the club! Membership is free!

Cupcake Icons Revisited

These Cupcake icons are a limited edition release exclusively for members of Club Marmalade Moon and come with the summer edition of the micro magazine.

If you think it sounds useful and fun to get insider sneak peeks, tips, pre-releases, members only desktop art and special sales at consistently irregular intervals, join the club! Did I mention that it’s free?!

New Leaf Icons on Daffodil Wallpaper

Here’s a lush and vibrant green, spring palette, perfect for turning over a new leaf with a good desktop spring cleaning!

These Vintage “New Leaf” Folder Icons with a Daffodil wallpaper are pre-released to members of Club Marmalade Moon and are part of the micro magazine for April.

We’ve been improving the help section at Marmalade Moon with a series of brand new video tutorials for how to change the icons on your computer and how to change the desktop wallpaper. Each tutorial now comes with a downloadable PDF that you can save for reference.

I’m celebrating the new guides and tutorials with a club members’ sale on the series of productive icons.

If you think it sounds useful and fun to get sneak peeks, tips, pre-releases, members only desktop art and special sales at consistently irregular intervals, join the club! It’s free and fun.

This year’s holiday collection is inspired by vintage Christmas ornaments and is designed in the same style as the free printable holiday gift tags. A cross-pollination between contemporary and retro.

The holiday collection features six icons and a wallpaper in a happy, bold and charming style to put your desktop in the holiday spirit.

As usual the wallpaper includes different versions that fit on your computer, iPad and iPhone.

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

Happy Holidays! Merry Desktop!

Holiday wallpaper with vintage Christmas ornaments

This time I’ve made experimental desktop art, abstract geometric compositions inspired by leaves. The club special of the season comes with 2 wallpapers and a set of 4 experimental desktop icons.

The wallpaper includes versions for fullscreen and widescreen computers as well as the iPhone and iPad. I’m excited to also include for the first time, a version for the new iPhone 4.

iPad users can use one wallpaper for the home screen and the other for the lock screen to create an elegant effect for the iPad desktop.

Join the club (it’s free!) to make sure you get these summer desktop treats for your desktop, and club members, keep an eye on your inbox!

I’m getting ready to send out the Spring Edition of Club Marmalade Moon. This limited edition desktop wallpaper inspired by the seaside is the club special of the season.

The club special wallpaper includes versions for fullscreen and widescreen computers as well as the iPhone and iPad. I’m so excited to release my first wallpaper for the iPad!

And yes, thanks to my friends and colleagues at the Iconfactory, I’ve got an iPad, although it’s not available been released in Sweden yet! So now I’ve been able to write a tutorial for how you change the wallpaper on your iPad! Because naturally, that’s the first thing you want to do when you get a new device!

Seaside wallpaper is inspired by the promise of summer, the beach, the sea and a Technicolor inspired palette and it accompanies a new series of Vintage Folder Icons. Grainy, retro, minimalist, robust with a nostalgic twist.

So keep your eyes peeled for new desktop art!

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

So how has it worked out?

Well, sometimes I’ve cheated. Especially when I worked on the watercolour studies of trees, that lead to the image “Blue Branches”. I spent a lot longer than 15 minutes on these studies, but each time I started working on them, I thought to myself that “I only need to put in quarter of an hour”, and perhaps that got me going long enough to get absorbed and into a state of flow…

It’s been a joy for me to document my creative process and to show it to my visitors. I feel that the creative work I do, even in small blocks of time, was made visible through this project, and it was empowering to see that even when time was short, I had indeed been developing my creative ideas.

I also felt it was very rewarding to prioritise my personal creativity in this way. No, cooking or playing with children or picking a fabric for a sofa did not count although I think all these things are creative activities.

Turning this project into something I blogged about, rather than simply doing on my own, did have an influence on the outcome. On one hand, blogging about it took time too, to add to the actual Creative Minutes. On the other hand, it made me accountable, and helped me stay on track. And it made me feel less shy about showing my unfinished work to the world, the creative process.

It’s been fun to share this process here on my blog, but I think that if I continued blogging about it daily, I would risk that it turning into being “for show and not for blow” so I’m thinking of continuing my Creative Minutes in an offline journal in the future, just to keep for myself. Actually, perhaps I’ll blog about it again, but not on a permanent basis.

My blogging activities are winding down now and I’ll be focusing on completing work that needs to be finished before the holidays, redecorating the studio, migrating to brand new iMacs as well as sending a winter holiday letter to members of Club Marmalade Moon, releasing two winter wonderland wallpapers, and preparing for Christmas. I can’t wait to start the New Year making something with the pattern that emerged in The Full Cold Moon! Wait, did I say something about slowing down?

Cupcakes of Happiness by Susannah Conway

Aren’t they delightful, these Cupcakes of Happiness by photographer Susannah Conway?! 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.