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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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

With Flare, you can effortlessly add effects and textures to your photos then save them to your Mac, upload them to Flickr, or send them in an email. Choose from a variety of Flare’s built-in high-quality presets or create your own using dozens of individual photographic effects. Once you’ve created the ultimate look for your photographs, save and share your preset creations with other Flare users quickly and easily.

Easy to learn for casual hobbyists, Flare also has the flexibility professional photographers need. Your photo is just the beginning!

Old Rose. ©Marianne alias "macounette"

This wonderful photo of a rose was shot by my Twitter buddy Marianne and is her first go with Flare! She says “This app is great. Easy to understand and lots of possibilities. Love it!” You’ll find Marianne and her iPhone photography on Flickr, Posterous, Tumblr and Twitter.

Give Flare a go before buying it by downloading a trial version of that lets you experience all the powerful features of the application but limits the size of photos that can be exported. You can take advantage of the introductory sale and get 50% off Flare on the Mac App Store. (The sale ends on March 18th)

Go to FlareApp.com to learn more about the application, download additional presets, browse the online users guide and more. Then head on over to the Mac App Store and pick up the all new digital desktop darkroom that is Flare for the Mac.

Organizer Desktop Icons Updated

In connection with releasing a new set of icons, Process Desktop Icons, I also updated the collection of Organizer Desktop Icons with four new icons. The new icons are Dreaded Report, Report and Pen, Report with Chart and First Aid.

Customers who bought the icons before the update, get the updated collection free of charge, so keep your eye on your inbox and please do let me know if you’ve changed your e-mail address recently.

I’m happy to announce the release of Process Icons, a collection of thirteen stylish desktop icons that help you stay on target with ease. Icons to help you get things done by showing you where you are in your process.

The Collection of Process Icons do the job when you need to know at a quick glance what’s overdue or urgent, what needs to be done today, and which one is the final and approved version. When you need to quickly find your sketches and drafts, the projects you’re working on just now as well as the important files you keep safe.

This collection comes with a set of bonus calendar icons (with the days of the month from 1-31) that help you keep track of important dates and deadlines.

These icons are part of a series with four collections of Productive Icons that help you get unstuck and work with ease. Available collections: Process Icons, Workflow Icons, Organizer Icons and Creative Icons.

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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Rain. Digital mixed media.

Rain. Digital mixed media inspired by autumn. By nature. By details. Weather and wind. Magnified moments.

This pack of wallpaper includes versions for fullscreen and widescreen computers as well as the iPhone, iPhone 4 and iPad. Members of Club Marmalade Moon receive a November desktop calendar version of “Rain”.

Not sure how to customise your desktop? Check out the tutorials for how to change the wallpaper on a Mac, on Windows, on your iPad or on your iPhone.

Hope your desktop enjoys a splash of rain!

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Icon sketches: inspiration, mockups, drafts, ideas, palettes, mood boards

I’m having so much fun designing this icon for drafts and sketches! Perhaps because I love this part of the process myself. Gathering inspiration, finding reference, doing research, catching ideas that spark in mind maps and mood boards.

The texture I used for the Moleskine (image below) is the same as the one I originally designed for the leather wallet, briefcase, satchel, old book and folder icons in the Organizer Collection. I felt that it worked well for the Moleskine and that it helped make the icons fit smoothly together, connecting the Moleskine with other icons.

While I was working on the icon for “Sketches, Drafts”, I came up with several variations. First I felt I had to pick one, but then I realised that a lot of people probably have different kinds of inspirational material that they collect. There could be drafts of text or images or a combination. There could be textures and palettes. Or combinations. So, why not include all three!? I’m calling them Sketches/Drafts, Ideas and Inspiration but naturally you can modify their names so that they work for you. How could you make use for these icons?

Sketches, drafts, inspiration, ideas

[To be continued... ]

Did you miss the other parts of this series?

• Part One: Designing the Collection of Process Icons: Sketches
• Part Two: Designing the Collection of Process Icons: A Vintage Touch
• Part Three: Designing the Collection of Process Icons: Indicating Time
• Part Four: Designing the Collection of Process Icons: Look and Feel
• Part Five: Designing the Collection of Process Icons: The Dreaded Report