Today the August Issue of the Marmalade Monthly is released. This month members of Club Marmalade Moon are in for a fluttering of butterflies as the collection of Picnic Pals expands!

This month’s issue is packed with exclusive desktop goodies. There are butterfly avatars to use on forums or social networks, as your computer log in, or as an image for any personal project where you find use for them. A pale yellow Brimstone, a lime green Brimstone and a Common Blue Butterfly.

There is a pre-release of three butterfly icons that I plan to release to the public later on this month.

And finally there is a members-only desktop wallpaper with butterflies on a blue summer’s sky!

Join the Club for limited edition desktop art and get your butterfly desktop art too!

Tags: seasonal, nature, summer, bug, Mac OS X, Windows, Vista, social networking, instant messenger, forum, Twitter

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, pattern, social networking, instant messenger, forum, Twitter, theme, customise

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

Spending hours on your computer? How about a spring desktop makeover?

Marmalade Moon has created a new club to belong to. As May approaches, there is one more week to get the April Club Benefits!

I have designed three limited edition floral icons exclusively for members of Club Marmalade Moon. A Siberian Scilla. An exquisite tulip with striking, rosy apricot petals suffused with pink! A Pheasant's Eye Daffodil, or Poet's Daffodil.

April's Club Monthly comes as icons for Windows, icons for Mac (with beautiful large resources for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista) and as images for personal use on your blog, website, as an avatar for your computer user account, forums, instant messenger and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. The images are all in png format and available in seven sizes.

Join now to get your free, first-rate, limited edition spring desktop art!

Let your desktop bloom! 

Tags: design, seasonal, bold, spring, floral, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista, pictures, instant messenger, social networking, forum

When MacPeople Lite in Japan featured my Soon Spring icons in their Spring 2008 issue I revisited the collection and decided to update the set to include fresh new versions for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista for this weeks release of icons at the Iconfactory.

But it was so much fun to work with these icons that I expanded the collection with five bold, new spring flowers! Inspiration was literally on the doorstep, with a few late Snowdrops and a sea of Scilla on the grassy slope outside the studio. Iris, Daffodils and Pheasant's Eye saluting the sun from the flowerbeds.

When I was designing these flowers I studied them and was fascinated by things I found out. That Iris, in Greek mythology, was the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. The optical phenomenon iridescence is derived from Iris' name and the fleur-de-lis is a stylized Iris...

Then I read that Pheasant's Eye daffodil, is also called Poet's Daffodil or Narcissus poeticus in latin... Isn't that just irresistable!?

And if you want to get it on paper, that spring is here, you might be interested in the Tulip card over in the shop where there are several cards inspired by spring.

Soon Spring icons come with a companion wallpaper: A Sea of Scilla. This desktop picture is available in several sizes for different types of monitors. There are fullscreen, widescreen, iPhone and iPod Touch versions so take your pick!

Last but not least, members of Club Marmalade Moon receive a bonus collection of Soon Spring icons and images for personal use on your blog or website or as avatars for your computer user account, forums, instant messenger and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace! Join the club to get your free April release of limited edition desktop art!

Tags: design, seasonal, floral, nature, spring, bold, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista, social networking

Well, while I was off to have Easter dinner with my family, the Easter Hare showed up for his last visit for the year! There were paw prints all over the house and he had left a note by my laptop with little odd drawings, scribbles and arrows explaining where all the eggs were...

Here are all the eggs and their locations! If you missed the egg hunt you can download them here.

And there is more! This was just the beginning of fun desktop events here at Marmalade Moon! I am launching a new project for people who like to customize their desktops: Club Marmalade Moon!

Members will receive exclusive, limited edition, designer desktop art that will be free for use in personal projects. You can use the desktop art to decorate your computer desktop. Or your blog or website. You can use it for your computer user account, your forum profile, or instant messenger. You can customise your social network such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter. Making your digital space personal and beautiful. And it's fun to collect the desktop art too!

Sign up today and be part of the grand opening in April!

Happy Easter!

Tags: design, desktop, interface, customise, Mac OS X, Windows, Leopard, Vista, nature, holiday, Easter icon egg hunt