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!

Tags: Club Marmalade Moon, minimalist, retro, vintage, Vintage Folder Icons

Blue garden

As summer deepens, progresses, turns towards autumn, my balcony garden turns into shades of blue and purple that bring bumblebees and butterflies to visit. Lavender with bluish-purple flowers and slender, aromatic, grey-green leaves. Mint and chives in purple blossom. The purple haze of Perovskia, Russian sage. Tuscan Calamintha with its cloud of light purple blossoms and its intoxicating scent! Salvia Caradonna, is a real drama queen, with exquisite regal purple flower spikes, on purplish-black stems stained with reddish violet, towering above the foliage! And deep purple, almost black, aubergine ripening.

All these electrifying shades of blue and purple as well as a getting the late summer blues, has inspired me to create both a collection of icons and a wallpaper.

Oh, I love purple! My balcony garden has given me so much inspiration for a much anticipated, brand new collection in the popular series of Luminous folder icons! This time it’s a volume of Luminous Purple Folder Icons.

This colorful series of icons is my take of the folder icon in Mac OS X Leopard. A minimalist folder icon to help you stay productive with neatly organized projects, and in style too! The series comes in a wealth of colours, to brighten your digital landscape and make it personal or to color code your projects.

This summer I’ve been experimenting with minimalist, geometric compositions.

Blue and geometric, is the theme for my new desktop wallpaper. Inspired by September’s birthstone, the sapphire. Members of Club Marmalade Moon also receive a September desktop calendar with this motif.

Save this wallpaper to your computer.

Tags: blue, folder icons, gardening, geometric, minimalist, purple

iPhone photography: pebbles, shadows and rose petals

There is something graphic and musical about these red rose petals scattered on white chalk pebbles. Something about rythm, perhaps. I see music in these pictures.

This desktop wallpaper is based on a series of photos “Pebbles & Rose Petals” I took this summer during my trip to Gotland. And since my return, I’ve been creating variations on a theme.

I’ve been breaking down the photo to a minimalist colour swatch that reminds me of pixel art.

Reducing the image with it’s romantic touch to something that will work peacefully on your desktop whilst displaying an enchanting and intriguing colour scheme.

Tags: color swatch, geometric, iPhoneography, minimalist, roses

iPhone photography: red roses and pebbles

I fell in love with the white chalk pebbles scattered with red rose petals during my journey to Visby on Gotland, and took a whole series of pictures. And I developed a healthy obsession with taking photos of my feet!

And when I returned home, I couldn’t let go of that simple beauty, the sound of pebbles crunching under my feet, the shadows, the rose petals…

I had been thinking of swatches, embroidery, textiles, and of the chunky, jagged pixels of photos and all this inspired me to create this wallpaper “Pebbles and Rose Petals”.

Save this wallpaper to your computer.

Tags: color swatch, geometric, iPhoneography, minimalist, roses