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

Vintage Folder Icons

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

Luminous 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

Looking 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.

Tags: blue, color code, digital environment, ease, folder icons, getting organized, green, Luminous Folder Icons, orange, pink, pixel art, productivity, purple, red, simplicity, yellow

iPhone photography: Stairs with a scattering of autumn leaves.

Tags: autumn, colour, Creative Minutes, grey, iPhoneography, leaves, nature, orange, yellow

Dreamboard. Full Frost Moon. November 2009.

This dreamboard didn’t turn out as I had planned it, not at all. And here I thought I had clear idea for what I wanted to bring into November! Since I’ve been spending my autumn expanding, following my heart, being in my creative process, participating in projects, resetting my internal compass, getting to know new friends and connecting with old ones, I felt it was time to, consolidate. To retreat to my home, to prepare for the holidays, find peace, bring beauty to my home, do yoga and sort out drawers. That is what my dreamboard was supposed to be about, but it took a direction of its own.

What I see is a dreamboard that’s about giving my creativity wings! Finding creative freedom. And a dreamboard strongly influenced by the bright colours of the autumn leaves, that bring me so much joy and inspiration!

For those of you who feel inspired by this dreamboard, I created Satsuma Sky, a desktop wallpaper and calendar for November with this motif. I hope you enjoy it!

Tags: birds, collage, creative process, creativity, dreamboard, dreams, full moon, making wishes, nature, orange, purple, sky, watercolours

November. Chestnuts, satsumas, celeriac, mangos, parsnips and pears. Darker days and candlelit evenings. Shades of orange and brown. I’m so enjoying experimenting with watercolours and collage techniques. This desktop wallpaper takes its cue from the autumn skies, watercolours and the explosive oranges of autumn leaves. A perfect backdrop for both Luminous Orange Folder Icons and Luminous Purple Folder Icons.

The download contains fullscreen, widescreen and iPhone versions, with and without a desktop calendar for November.

Save this wallpaper to your computer.

Tags: birds, collage, desktop calendar, nature, orange, purple, sky, watercolours

iPhone photography: Autumn landscape by the lake

This time of year each day comes with subtle or startling changes and it makes me feel so present, my senses alert, my heart happy and grateful.

iPhone photography: Yellow and orange leaves

Sometimes I wonder if I could express my impressions in the form of textile prints and tableware, but the whole industrial process seems pretty daunting!

iPhone photography: Oak and pine tree

On my walks I’ve been listening to CraftSanity podcasts, a recommendation from New York artist Dana Barbieri who is working on a an inspiring Art Book project. I also joined a Facebook group “Faceless for six days”, the idea is to see how it feels to not use Facebook. So be warned, my Facebook footprint will be even tinier than usual!

Saturday’s The Experience Animation and Technology Exhibition 2009 where students of Hyper Island featured interactive and digital art powered by Wii technology turned out to be an exciting sensory overload! A few projects that made a deep impression were Soul Music (create music and light effects by dancing), The Jacksson Pollock Experience (make your own virtual “drip” technique paintings), The Triforce Installation (create ambient sounds and light animations) and the ingenious ThisPlay (hand held touch screen paper displays).

iPhone photography: Orange leaves

Here’s another image with leaves that makes me think of transferring my impressions into pattern design.

Then again, I’m enjoying the ease of photography. The fast process is perfect for capturing ideas and makes such a contrast to the long and sometimes complicated process involved when I create with other techniques.

I hope you’re enjoying your weekend and that next week will glow exhilarating!

Tags: autumn, carpe diem, gratitude, inspiration, iPhoneography, leaves, nature, orange, podcasts, red, seize the day, senses, sensual, yellow