Vintage Folder Icons: Seaside

25 May 2010 Filed in: Icons

Red Velvet Cinema Vintage Folder Icon

Vintage Folder Icons Seaside is inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and old films and bring a touch of nostalgia and the glamour of Technicolor film to your digital environment. Vintage Folder Icons go nicely together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons and help you get things done by color coding your projects.

This collection of folder icons is inspired by the seaside. In red, white and sand, Seaside folder icons bring the ocean, marine fashion and a minimalist vintage touch to your desktop.

Vintage Folder Icons Seaside

Inspired by the seaside and the rich, saturated palette of Technicolor film, these folder icons help you create a personal desktop environment with a hint of nostalgia. Five folder icons in colours borrowed from the seaside, red, blue and sand or On the Beach, Ocean Liner, Powder Blue Cadillac, Warm Retro Red and Red Velvet Cinema.

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Free Icons

14 April 2010 Filed in: Icons

Free icons to help you be more productive with neatly organized projects.

Vintage Folder Icons

Red Velvet Cinema Vintage Folder Icon

Vintage Folder Icons is a series of free icons inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and old film. With their grainy texture, these icons bring a touch of nostalgia to your desktop, while helping you stay organised by color coding your projects. They fit nicely together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons.

To maximize your productivity, all of the Vintage folder icons have got small, crisp hand-drawn versions for the small sizes that show up in list-view.

Available in Seaside (red, blue and sand).

Luminous Folder Icons

Lavender Blue Folder IconLuminous Folder Icons are designed to kick start your desktop with an uncluttered, productive and beautiful desktop environment. Bring a splash of colour to your digital environment and inhabit your desktop with your favourite colours. This series of free icons is designed to help you visually personalize your desktop and color code your projects to work more efficiently.

To maximize your productivity, all of the Luminous folder icons have got small, crisp hand-drawn versions for the small sizes that show up in list-view.

Available in Blue, Purple, Orange, Pink and Ready Steady Go (red, yellow and green).

Legacy Icon Archive

hype hairLooking for the icon archives? Here’s a decade of free icons, designed for what now are vintage operating systems. From pixel art like Hype Hair and Knot Right? (How to tie a tie), to icons in a modern style such as Daffodils and Hieroglyphica (Egyptian hieroglyphs).

You’ll find these retired icons in the Legacy Icon Archive.

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Why You Can Be More Productive Using Icons (So You Can Spend Less Time Working)

12 April 2010 Filed in: Digital Life, Icons

Increasing Your Productivity Using Computer Icons

Resources icon. Leather bound book with green apple.

Resources. Leather bound book with green apple.

Your productivity when you use your computer, is directly influenced by the ease with which you are able to find and launch your favourite applications, find the projects you are working on, your important files and folders and find, organize and retrieve your internet downloads.

This is why software developers spend a lot of time and money designing icons for their applications.

Doesn’t that indicate that we who use computers, can benefit from spending a few minutes customising our own projects?

Many of us spend more and more time working in a digital environment. A cluttered desktop environment will make you feel overwhelmed. Taking a few minutes to sort it out, make it personal and more functional will pay off by making work more fun and easy, so you can finish your work sooner and spend more time doing something else.

As en extra bonus, you get an overview of your projects when you customize your desktop icons which also helps and motivates in keeping your desktop uncluttered and tidy. Here are three different approaches to using icons as a productivity tool.

Color Coding Your Projects

Birch Green Folder Icon

Green Folder Icon

A simple way to create a more productive digital environment is to use Luminous Folder Icons to colour code your projects.

This is a technique that’s easy to personalize and adapt to different types of projects and files.

Besides, you can pick your favourite colours and bring a splash of color to your desktop into the bargain.

Using Icons To Support Your Workflow

To Do Icon

To Do Icon

A quick and easy approach is to create a desktop environment that follows your workflow organically.

This example with an icon of a vintage clipboard from the Workflow Collection would make an excellent choice for a folder with projects to-do. The symbol is easy to understand and the icon stands out on the desktop making it easy to find.

The Workflow Collection brings an action-oriented, harmonious structure to your desktop with a minimum of effort or need for maintenance. Find out more about how to organize your desktop by naturally following your workflow.

Using Icons For Your Projects

Finances Icon

Finances Icon

Using icons for the projects you’re working on will help you find and organize your files.

If your work consists of recurring projects, you could make a template project folder based on what’s needed, and simply copy the project when starting a fresh project.

Here’s an icon with a leather wallet and some coins from the Organizer Collection. This would make a great choice for a folder with documents related to money. Invoices, finances, the budget for a project, there are many possibilities.

Needlework Icon

Next an icon with a cotton reel with green thread from the Creative Collection that could be used for needlework, crafting, colour swatches, sewing, textiles, quilting, handmade, again these are just a few ideas.

These symbols can be used and redefined by the user in many different ways. Check out the Productive Icons and see how you can make use of them.

Creating a desktop you love to spend time in, will help you enjoy your computer time and focus on your projects rather than feel overwhelmed by desktop clutter. And you’ll be able to finish your work earlier too.

Not sure how to customize your icons? Here’s a tutorial for using icons on a Mac and here’s a tutorial for how to change the icons in Windows.

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Luminous Orange Folder Icons

3 September 2009 Filed in: Icons

pumpkinEnergise your desktop environment and give it a personal touch with this collection of vibrant, sunny and spicy orange folder icons!

Sunny and dynamic orange radiates happiness and is an antidepressant in the form of colour! A colour that brings attention to your folders and creates a stimulating, warm and inviting environment.

luminous orange folder icons

Luminous Orange Folder Icons is part of the series of Luminous folder icons, created to help you keep your desktop both tidy and gorgeous by colour coding your projects.
Orange is the colour of optimism, adventure and communication. Juicy, generous, sociable, spontaneous, energetic, enthusiastic, flamboyant and vivid.
Joyous orange is a powerful healing colour, it lifts our spirits, helps us look on the bright side and recover from grief. Rejuvenating orange helps us forgive and move on.
Here are eight shades of orange folder icons: Satsumas, Orange Peel, Pumpkin, Jack-o’-lantern, Cinnamon, Orange Rose, Cayenne, and Peach!

Luminous Orange Folder Icons is part of the series of Luminous folder icons, created to help you keep your desktop both tidy and gorgeous by colour coding your projects.

Orange is the colour of optimism, adventure and communication. Juicy, generous, sociable, spontaneous, energetic, enthusiastic, flamboyant and vivid.

Joyous orange is a powerful healing colour, it lifts our spirits, helps us look on the bright side and recover from grief. Rejuvenating orange helps us forgive and move on.

Here are eight shades of orange folder icons: Satsumas, Orange Peel, Pumpkin, Jack-o’-lantern, Cinnamon, Orange Rose, Cayenne, and Peach!

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Luminous Ready Steady Go Folder Icons

3 September 2009 Filed in: Icons

olive green folder icon Ready Steady Go comes in soft greens and yellows and vibrant red. Like a beautiful autumn day.

This volume of icons is designed to make it easy to customize your digital environment, helping you stay focused and organized by color coding your projects. Think of it as a stimulus package for your desktop!

autumn oak yellow folder icon Detoxing your desktop and keeping it uncluttered is an easy and enjoyable task with Ready Steady Go Luminous Folder Icons.

One way to manage your projects with ease, is to use these folder icons to color code your folders, indicating how urgent a project is. Red for urgent, yellow for medium and green for finished projects.

With a total of twelve folder icons in shades of red, yellow and green, these folder icons are designed to kick start your desktop with an uncluttered, productive and beautiful desktop environment!

luminous ready steady go red yellow green folder icons

4 red folder icons: Brick Red, Garnet, Crimson and Vermillion.
4 yellow folder icons: Autumn Oak, Amber, Lemon and Naples Yellow.
4 green folder icons: Pine, Olive Green, Birch and Lime Green.

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