Japonizer. Seamless, traditional, Japanese Pattern Generator. Pick a pattern, choose colours and size, then Japonize and save your pattern as a tile. A quick, fun and easy way to create a seamless background for your blog, website or digital art project.

Tags: blogging, Japan, patterns

iPhone photography: Kimono fragments

Kimono fragments. From a visit to The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet) on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm.

Tags: exhibitions, Japan, museums, patterns

Cute Cat Icons Volume 2

The second volume of Cute Cat icons (and the first set of Cut Cat icons is here if you missed it) have just been released over at the Iconfactory. The collection includes six cat breeds: the Bombay Tuxedo, British Shorthair, Birman, Scottish Fold, Turkish Angora and the Havana Brown.

I can’t decide what to do for my next set for the Iconfactory. A set with cute dogs? Or something completely different? A set of icons inspired by the time and style of Mad Men?

Tags: creative process, desktop art, icons, illustration, Japan

White Persian Cat Icon

These Cute Cat icons have just been released over at the Iconfactory. The collection includes six cat breeds: the Abyssinian, American Shorthair, Bombay, Russian Blue, Siamese and White Persian.

It was a snowy weekend in January, when these super cute, kawaii inspired cat illustrations first turned up. It started with one, and although I wasn’t sure what to do with them, they gradually expanded into a whole family of cat characters and suddenly it became clear to me, that they wanted to be icons.

Now I’m writing from the middle of July. There’s a heat wave. Summer dresses made of cotton or linen, watermelon, iced coffee, Gazpacho (cold Spanish vegetable soup), Chlodnik (Polish chilled beetroot soup), Ajo Blanco (Spanish chilled almond soup), nectarines, feta cheese and midnight swims in the lake are my life savers. And the creative process for Cute as a Button illustrations seems far away. In deep winter. But here they are, the first volume of Cute Cat icons.

Tags: creative process, desktop art, icons, illustration, Japan

Forsythia

Showy and vibrant Forsythia, or golden bells, is a native to Asia. Erupting with abundant, bright golden yellow flowers on bare, leafless stems ushering in spring. These desktop backgrounds were inspired by Japanese art and patterns as well as yellow.

Forsythia comes in two versions so you can either take your pick or use them for a set up with dual monitors. As usual, available both for fullscreen, widescreen and iPhone/iPod Touch.

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Tags: Asia, desktop art, flowers, Japan, spring, wallpapers, yellow