Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper

Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper is a design that takes its cue from the golden ratio or divine section (Latin: sectio divina). Combining rich shades of purple plum with golden russet, the colours I used when I designed the Autumn Shift Goal Kit. The signature colour palette of Marmalade Moon.

Use Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper for its sophisticated beauty, or be more productive by organising your folders into the different fields of colour, to indicate priority or type of project.

Icons that are beautifully matched with Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper:

Purple Grapes Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons

Purple icons on golden ratio autumn wallpaper

This pack of wallpaper includes versions for fullscreen and widescreen computers as well as the iPhone, iPhone 4 and iPad.

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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?!

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Valentine's Day mini cards

Here’s a batch of free mini cards or gift tags for Valentine’s Day.

Time to celebrate love! Send a Valentine to your sweetheart or to a friend or make Valentine’s day a special day for yourself. Tickets for two? A night out? A romantic gift? How about treating your friend to lunch out? A visit to a museum? A scenic drive? A cup of tea, a movie or dinner with someone you love?

I’m sharing the mini cards or gift tags with you in a printable PDF-file for you to print out, cut up and enjoy! I’ve also included the design as a set of small digital cards, just the right size to pop in an e-mail. I hope you have fun using and sharing these Valentine designs!

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A Walk in the Park

With six folder icons in red, orange, grey, green, yellow and brown, A Walk in the Park folder icons bring the fresh breeze of the outdoors and a minimalist vintage touch to your desktop. Also available in red, blue and sand “Seaside”.

The series of Vintage Folder Icons is inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and Technicolor films and bring a hint of nostalgia and glamour to your digital environment. Vintage Folder Icons go perfectly together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons and help you get stuff done by color coding your projects.

Vintage Folder Icons: A Walk in the Park

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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!

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.

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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!