Club Marmalade Moon is gathering momentum and it’s already time for the fourth edition of the Marmalade Monthly.

This month club members get a ladybird avatar to use in chat programmes and computer user accounts. The avatar can be used in forums and other communities, in social networks like FriendFeed, MySpace, SocialThing, Twitter or Facebook and for the image and video sharing communities Flickr and YouTube. The image can also be used in non-commercial projects such as a personal blog or web site.

There are two Ladybug Twitter themes too, in July’s Marmalade Monthly. One of them has a repeatable background pattern with ladybugs that has many uses, it can for example be used on a computer desktop or as a background on a blog.

Do you like to customise your computer desktop? Your digital, social space? Join the Club for free, limited edition desktop art!

Tags: design, seasonal, nature, pictures, avatar, social networking, instant messenger, forum, Twitter, theme, customise

Here are two new subtle and soothing textured wallpapers to keep your desktop nice and fresh during hot summer days! Luminous. And perhaps a bit mysterious.

‘Luminous: Cerulean’ in fresh, greenish blue and intense ‘Luminous: Ultramarine’. I hope you enjoy them!

Tags: Luminous, water, textured, fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone, iPod Touch

You may have noticed that we have had some issues on the site due to changes in the backend software. I am relieved to announce that everything is in mint condition again!

If you signed up to Club Marmalade Moon and didn’t hear from me, please sign up again! Also, if you have any trouble with the links in your Marmalade Monthly for June, please drop me a note and I will resend this month’s issue to you.

Since you were kind enough to put up with all the unpleasant bugs I have created an enjoyable one, a ladybug icon, who deals with the nasty bugs and gives you luck! So fly on over to the Freebies section to download your Ladybird icon. She’ll keep your desktop clean!

Tags: Mac OS X, Windows, Vista, nature, design, desktop, bug

I been getting lots of requests both for new and updated icons in the trendy iPhonica style inspired by the interface of Apple’s hot iPhone with its glossy, bold and stylised home screen icons.

I am glad to announce that I just updated the popular collection “iPhonica Volume 2” to include the large sizes for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista and there will be both more upsized versions of the old favourites as well as some new sets to come!

“iPhonica Volume 2” includes icons for: airplane, calculator, calendar, camera, contact, favorites, notes, rose, snowflake and weather.

So head on over to the Iconfactory to get the updated version of “iPhonica Volume 2”!

Tags: iPhonica, Mac OS X, Windows, Vista, Leopard, iPhone, design, desktop, interface

I am working on a new set of folder icons inspired by water, light, textures, my water colour paints, translucency, blues and the folders in Mac OS X Leopard.

This all comes together in a series of icons and wallpapers named Luminous.

Bringing a cool water feeling to your desktop during the hot summer months. A beach, dew in the grass in the early morning, a glass of iced water, a rainfall.

In June, members of Club Marmalade Moon, receive the third edition of the Marmalade Monthly.

A preview icon of the new collection of folders that I am working on. There is a version for Windows and one for Mac OS X with lovely large versions for Vista and Leopard.

A Luminous Cerulean desktop calendar for June.

And yes, it is free!

Join the tribe! Sign up today and receive high-quality, limited edition, designer desktop art from Marmalade Moon. Have fun customising your desktop!

Tags: desktop calendar, Luminous, Mac OS X, Leopard, folder, Aqua, water, textured, fullscreen, widescreen

According to a Swedish legend, there was a cobbler who each year put up a sign that said "Closed Between Bird Cherry and Lilac".

And this is indeed an enchanting time of year! Beautiful and intoxicating early summer. When veils of green leaves open on the bare branches. The heady scents of blossoms. Fresh shades of greens and bird song.

Every year I keep thinking that I really ought to do what the cobbler did! Hang up a sign on the door and take a few weeks off to indulge in this time of sheer beauty. And every year it turns out to be a busy time of year!

I had to do something about it so last week I spent the day walking all over Djurgården in Stockholm. I was dizzy with summer! Lunch in the fruit orchard at Rosendals Trädgård under clouds of cherry blossom was almost too much to take in. Breathtaking.

Back in the studio I worked on this desktop picture with an orchard with cherry trees in bloom which originally was inspired by a letter from Japan. But that is a different story! Trying to give the image this almost ethereal feeling I had in the orchard... And perhaps a bit of a story book quality!

Cherry Orchard wallpaper is available in the Freebies section and comes in several sizes and variations for different types of monitors and set ups. There are fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone and iPod Touch versions so pick a good one!

Tags: design, seasonal, floral, summer, spring, nature, Japanese, iPhone, iPod Touch, widescreen, fullscreen, dual monitor