Espresso Wallpaper

Espresso Wallpaper. Rich and intense like the promise of a fresh cup of espresso and a piece of chocolate! A geometric design inspired by the golden ratio or divine section (Latin: sectio divina).

Use Espresso 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 Espresso Wallpaper:

Vintage Folder Icons: Winter
Vintage Folder Icons: Purple Grapes
Vintage Folder Icons: A Walk in the Park
Vintage Folder Icons: Seaside
Luminous Ready Steady Go Folder Icons

Vintage Winter Folder Icons

This pack of wallpaper is available for widescreen, fullscreen, iPhone and iPad.

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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 Winter Folder Icons

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iPhone photography: Christmas Rose

2011

As the old year fades out and the champagne is on the cooler getting ready to welcome the new year, I find myself looking back and looking forward. Here are my favourite highlights from 2011:

In 2011 my digital life was simplified and made easier through the use of Buffer (a tool that helps you optimize your social media updates by cutting down the noise and sharing more consistently), Evernote (a digital scrapbook) and Dropbox (a storage utility that allows you to access your files from anywhere).

Creatively, this was the year that I resumed my life drawing and figure studies while my iPhone photography took took a bit of a dip, but gained momentum towards the second half of the year.

2011 was the year of the Life Compass. A tool to help people easily make a deep change to their lives by going with the flow of the seasons.

I would like to acknowledge two amazing and talented women, who were very helpful and supportive. My brilliant mother, who brought me up to seize the day, to live with the seasons, to find joy in the small things and beauty everywhere. The Life Compass is inspired by her! I’m also deeply grateful to my wonderful friend Wini who was an excellent help throughout the whole process, with her great expertise and kindness. Thank you, ladies!

2012

In 2012, you’ll find more tips and apps for iPhone photography at Marmalade Moon. Ideas for how you can simplify your digital life and how to get going with life drawing if you don’t have access to models. I’m going to develop a daily propellor, to accompany the Life Compass series and help you gain momentum on a daily basis. And of course there will be more free desktop goodies, both wallpapers and more folder icons. But first I’m going to take my own advice and burrow into my inner landscape with the Winter Shift, to find illuminating light in the darkness of long winter’s nights.

Many thanks to you who visit Marmalade Moon! Thank you for your continued support of Marmalade Moon and everything I do. Happy New Year! 

Productive Desktop Icons is a brand new bundle of 4 collections of icons that help you get unstuck so you can work with ease. Supporting your workflow, following along with your process, keeping your most important projects organised and keeping your creative work at your fingertips.

Think of them as a stimulus package for your desktop, and go get them today!

Purple Grapes folder icons come in rich shades of purple, famous varieties of the finest cultivated grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Rioja, Syrah and Zinfandel. Perfectly  matched with shades of purple and russet in the abstract Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper or with the wild and dreamy Montage Wallpaper.

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.

Purple icons on golden ratio autumn wallpaper

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The Complete Series of Vintage Folder Icons:

Seaside
A Walk in the Park
New Leaf

With 8 folder icons in vibrant shades of green, blue and yellow, New Leaf folder icons bring a touch of a green landscape with  blue skies and a minimalist vintage touch to your desktop. Works beautifully together with Daffodil Wallpaper.

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.

New Leaf Icons on Daffodil Wallpaper

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The Complete Series of Vintage Folder Icons:

Seaside
A Walk in the Park
New Leaf

Renewed Help Section

We’ve been improving the help section at Marmalade Moon to make it really easy to learn how to customise your desktop with icons and wallpapers.

Video Desktop Tutorials

We’ve got a series of brand new video tutorials to make it simple and quick to learn how to change the icons on your computer and how to change your desktop wallpaper. Each tutorial comes with a free, downloadable PDF that you can save to your computer.

Guides for Mac and Windows

There are tutorials for how to customize your icons in Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OSX and you can learn how to customize your wallpaper on Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, on your iPad and on your iPhone or iPod.

Tutorials on all Levels

For beginners there’s an An Introduction to Desktop Customization and a series of articles with Suggestions for a Productive Desktop. I hope you find these new resources helpful and just like before all of these resources are free.

Introducing a simple, muted and minimalist range of icons to the collection of Luminous Folder Icons.

Inspired by a winter landscape in black and white. Greys, browns with patches of melting ice and snow. Ten icons in colours borrowed from winter: Black, Midnight, Coal, Graphite, Pencil, Thunder, Aluminum, Silver, Pearl and White.

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The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

Perhaps the easiest and most consistent, yet flexible, way to make your desktop more productive is to use folder icons in different colors to color code your projects.

One example is to assign a color to a type of project. For instance, use birch green folder icons for your work projects and autumn brown folders for personal projects.

Another method is to use colors to indicate work flow or actions. Use one color for your urgent actions, one for projects on hold, one for stuff that needs to be sorted out, one for downloads, one for inspiration or brainstorming, one for research and yet another for your completed and filed projects.

Ready Steady Go Folder Icons are designed to help you color code your projects. Think of them as a spa makeover for your desktop!

With a total of twelve shades of red, yellow and green you can use Ready Steady Go to indicate how urgent a project is.  Red for urgent, yellow for medium or projects on hold and green for finished projects.

To bring you even more options, there are four more sets of Luminous Folder Icons: purple, blue, pink, gray, and orange.

To learn how to customize your icons visit this tutorial.

More Suggestions for a Productive Desktop:

Zen .. Zen .. Where’d I put my Zen? The Beauty of an Organized Desktop
Managing your Workflow with Customized Icons
How to Organize Your Desktop by Naturally Following Your Workflow
How to Change Your Icons