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

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

Dreamboard. Full Harvest Moon. October 2009.

A Dreamboard for the Full Harvest Moon. Layers of transformation, expanding creative expressions, painting, photography, writing, type… The past, the present. And finding a focus for the future.

I was standing in the museum of a castle ruin, reading fascinating (no I’m not being sarcastic) and informative text on those typical museum boards, when suddenly the graffiti on the wall behind the board caught my attention. Or rather came forward to me, like a wave of text, like light, layers and layers of graffiti carved onto the stone wall. And I started to photograph the graffiti, going from room to room, floor to floor, captivated by it, following its light, and forgetting everything else… The earliest date I found was 1609, and the most recent was 2009. It was like a living memorial to all those people. I imagined each person writing their name on the wall, carving glorious moments of stolen kisses, or writing a “here I am, I exist” in the middle of an everyday experience… I wondered if people ever recalled, later on, the moment when they crafted that graffiti…

When I returned from my journey to Öland, my best friend wanted to see my photos from my trip, but I mostly have loads of photos of this graffiti from the castle… One of the images, the one below, was the starting point for this collage, and was meant to be the focal point, and yet it didn’t make it in! Somehow it just got to be too much.

Here is a desktop wallpaper and an October desktop calendar version of my Harvest Moon dreamscape.

Centuries of layered graffiti on the wall of a castle ruin.

Tags: collage, creative process, creativity, dreamboard, dreams, fonts, full moon, grafitti, handwriting, history, layers, letters, making wishes, orange, purple, vintage, watercolours

October. Russet, plum, dark brown, rust, gold, purple and green. Mushrooms. Candied apples. Figs. Pumpkins. Roasted chestnuts. Halloween. And as I walk down the road, a scattering of acorns, pine cones and oak leaves.

I’ve been working on this image, inspired by my trip to Öland and the graffiti in a medieval castle. Creating a dreamscape in a whole different format when I realised it would work as a desktop wallpaper too, so I adapted the montage with its layers of writing and watercolours to desktop sizes and also made a desktop calendar version for October. This download contains fullscreen, widescreen and iPhone versions, with and without the calendar. Montage wallpaper works very well with the collection of Purple Luminous Folder Icons, the Orange and Pink Folder Icons.

Save this wallpaper to your computer.

Tags: collage, desktop calendar, fonts, grafitti, history, layers, letters, orange, pink, purple, vintage, watercolours