I am excited to announce that the popular desktop wallpaper Floating on Nasturtiums has been re-released!

Hot, orange and red blossoms with crisp lily-pad foilage. Now updated to include some larger monitor sizes that weren’t around when I originally created the image.

So head on over to the Freebies section to pick this fiery gardener’s delight, Nasturtiums, for your desktop!

Tags: seasonal, nature, summer, floral

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

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

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

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

If home is where you lay your hat, and your desktop is where you spend a big chunk of your time, why not take your desktop for an adventure starting off by hanging this gorgeous fedora on your desktop? Adventure is where you find it!

The Month of Adventure presents desktop art on an Indiana Jones theme!

Turn your desktop into Dr. Jones' desktop with Indy's Desk, a stunning and detailed vintage-style desktop picture by Dave Brasgalla. This wallpaper brings dreams of travel and exploration to your desktop!

Make your adventurous desktop complete with icons from Indy's quest for the fabled Lost Ark. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark by Anthony Piraino which brings you the Indiana Jones' trademark fedora and bullwhip. His notebook, treasure map and of course the treasures!

In anticipation of Lucasfilm & Paramount’s blockbuster series starring Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull we have launched a month-long tribute to Indiana Jones over at the Iconfactory! The Month of Adventure will see the debut of a set of icons for each movie so we can look forward to The Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull icon sets released later on this month. The adventure continues all month long!

Related Links:
Dave Brasgalla's personal site and portfolio Pixelhuset
Anthony Pirano's personal site and gallery One-Button Mouse

Tags: desktop, film, movie, adventure, travel, vintage, historical, realism, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista, Leopard

I have been fascinated with yellow ever since the daffodils burst out in bloom! This new dual monitor desktop background with forsythia was inspired by Japanese designs and patterns - and yellow.

This month Club Members receive the Marmalade Monthly and a May desktop calendar. So head on over to the freebies section to get your Forsythia wallpaper and don't forget to join Club Marmalade Moon for even more exclusive desktop goodies!

Tags: design, seasonal, floral, spring, nature, Japanese, desktop calendar

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

It never fails, every year I buy budding bunches of daffodils, when I shop for food at the market. A couple of days later I buy another bunch, soon the dinner table is overflowing with daffodils. And when the daffodils bloom I am startled at how anything can be so - well so very yellow...

As you might have guessed, I am designing some icons and desktop pictures on a spring theme. Bold and colourful like the brave spring blossoms. This spring desktop art will be ready to open its petals on your desktop next week!

Members of Club Marmalade Moon will receive bonus spring desktop art, so join the club to get your April release of limited edition desktop art, if you haven't done so already!

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

Sick of that boring, impersonal, generic computer desktop but not quite sure how to change it and make it yours? The Help Desk is open! Here you you can find out how to use icons to make your desktop personal and productive.

Step-by-step tutorials walk you through how to save desktop art to your computer with ease and how to change the desktop icons on Mac OS X or how to customize the icons on Windows, how to use system replacement icons as well as how to customise your desktop picture on a Mac or your wallpaper in Windows with just a few clicks. Tutorials both for Windows and Mac.

There is no need to worry about which operating system you are using! These simple steps work in both Windows Vista, Windows XP as well as the classic, older Windows operating systems. Mac users can use these tutorials both to customise Mac OSX Leopard, the previous verisons of Mac OSX and the classic older versions of Mac operating systems.

There is also a printable PDF version that provides a way for you to keep an offline copy or print a copy for later use. Sometimes it can be handy to have a printed version on one's desk, whilst going through the different steps.

It's fun and easy to beautify your desktop! To make your digital working and leisure environment personal, functional, practical, productive, gorgeous, delightful, to give it the look and visual cues you want it to have!

Tags: tutorial, gui, guide, how-to, customise, productivity, desktop, interface, Mac, Mac OS X, Leopard, Windows, Vista

I am busy creating more desktop art on the theme of the full moon. There will be a new set of icons with the full moon based on the colourful moons from the Total Lunar Eclipse Collection of wallpapers. I am planning a set that spans from silvery white, a harvest moon and blood red moons in explosive shades of red, orange, pink and palest lilac. Oh, and a blue moon too of course!

Also, on popular demand, I am remastering 'The Painted Desert', a desert landscape with moon. Adding new sizes for large monitors and for the iPhone and iPod Touch as well as dual monitor versions.

These are some of the ideas I am working on just now, so check back for this new set of icons with the Full Moon and for 'The Painted Desert' desktop picture.

Tags: design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon, Windows, Vista, Mac OS X, Leopard

I designed three new desktop pictures with the total eclipse of the Moon available for download in the freebies section so that you can enjoy this dramatic celestial feast on your desktop.

'Under a Blood Red Moon', 'Glowing Coal Moon' and 'Burning Orange Moon'.

Tags: design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon

I am making a new wallpaper for the celestial feast on Thursday, February 21, when stargazers will see the full Moon blush red as it passes through Earth's shadow in a total lunar eclipse! The colour of the Moon will change from silvery white to copper red or glowing orange when light is deflected by the Earth’s atmosphere and bounces back off the “blood moon”.

Shades of palest lilac, pinks, oranges and deep red all come together forming a Moon that resembles a glowing coal. So check back for a collection of new desktop pictures with the total eclipse of the Moon!

Further reading (external links):
NASA - Lunar Eclipse Page
Wikipedia - Lunar Eclipse

Tags: design, nature, celestial, astronomy, Moon

In time for Valentine's Day, this desktop picture with rose petals has been remastered for large monitors and for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

For a digital romance, or for a longing for deep summer, the heady scent of roses, the velvet petals.

Dress up your desktop in pretty petals over in the freebies section. Because desktop geeks have feelings too!

Tags: Valentine's Day, summer, seasonal, nature, design

There has hardly been any snow in Sweden this winter so I had to make up for it in some way. I designed a winter wonderland desktop background with bold, crisp, stylised snowflakes to capture a winter atmosphere.

'Snowflake' Wallpaper is available for download in the freebies section. Enjoy!

Tags: snow, winter, seasonal, nature, holiday, design

Marmalade Moon wishes you a happy New Year and continues to celebrate its 10th anniversary with new desktop art; 'Celebration' desktop picture with Fireworks.

This wallpaper is available both for widescreen and fullscreen monitors as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. I am excited to also introduce some new resolutions as well as dual monitor wallpapers!

Here is a toast to absent friends, a toast to present friends, a toast to everyone who has visited Marmalade Moon!

Update: I made some changes to this wallpaper adding a little more detail. 15th January 2008.

Tags: seasonal, holiday, celebration, design

The Hieroglyphica collection of desktop art is a tribute to the mother of all written languages and of computer icons - the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs or 'Divine Words' as the Egyptians themselves called them. Hieroglyphs, symbols, pictographs, pictograms, icons...

In time for the holidays, 'Sandstone' Desktop Picture has been updated for some of our new icons of our modern times - Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

Icons from this collection: 'Hieroglyphica Vol 1' and 'Hieroglyphica Vol 2'

Tags: design, Egypt, ancient, historical, hieroglyph, relief, Mac OS X, Windows

Over at the Iconfactory, we have released our whole library of wallpapers / desktop pictures especially formatted for use on Apple's new iPhone!

Now you can customize your iPhone’s background with any of the Iconfactory's fun,  graphic desktop pictures and make it match your desktop computer or just set your iPhone apart from the pack.

Busy days but I finally got some time to make application icons in the iPhonica style. So keep your eyes peeled for more goodies!

Tags: desktop, interface, design, iPhone, iPod Touch