The Breakroom

No Guts, No iGlory!

July 28, 2007

It’s safe to say we love our iPhones. So far, Talos, Craig and Ged have all taken the plunge and become early adopters of Apple’s cool 1.0 product, with no regrets. The iPhone is a perfect testament to Apple’s philosophy of elegance, ease of use and friendly user interface design, and all indications point to […]

We are pleased to announce that the Windows version of our professional filter for constructing icons, IconBuilder, has been updated to handle the creation of large format, 256×256 ICO files for Windows Vista. The filter also offers a host of new features that icon artists everywhere will appreciate. Here is a highlight of just some […]

Anyone who’s tried our fun, free desktop widget Dine-O-Matic, will be familiar with this week’s freeware icon release. We’ve taken all of those fun, neon eateries and created a slick icon set for use on the desktop just for you. These icons make great folder icons, iChat avatars and even clever Address Book icons for […]

This past weekend marked the end of Season 3 of the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who in the United Kingdom. At the same time, we here in the U.S. are just now starting to get the Doctor and Martha’s adventures through the summer and into the fall. Seems fair enough since they have to wait […]

Just a quick note to let any of our fellow icon designers out there know about some issues we’ve discovered with the new Dock in Leopard. The details of the changes and how they might affect you are available on my new weblog: The HIG still matters, even with special effects. I’ll be using this […]

Announcing an important update to our professional Photoshop filter for creating icons on the Mac, IconBuilder. Version 8.5.1 fixes several bugs including creating open/drop folder icons on Intel based Macs and support for saving both compressed and uncompressed Vista icons simultaneously. The update is free to registered users of IconBuilder and available now from the […]

Just like the rest of the entire world, we’re caught up in the wave that is iPhone mania. Call it boundless enthusiasm or a desire to support the latest and greatest from Apple, but we’ve got something new, just for you. We’re pleased to announce that our entire library of desktop pictures has been resized, […]

Ars Technica sat down during this year’s WWDC conference with several noted software developers and got their thoughts on a wide range of subjects. The series includes interviews with Alex Payne of Twitter, Amit Singh of Google and several others. Today’s entry is our very own Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry. Ars writer Clint Ecker delves […]

If you’ve ever wondered how you could say “Thanks!” to the workers for years of pumping out freeware icons, desktop pictures and killer software, this post is for you. Over at the Foreman’s blog, he’s outlined an effort we’ve begun to help convince Apple that ARTIS and the Iconfactory’s challenging puzzle app, Frenzic, is a […]

Unless you’ve been hiding out on one of the moons of Cybertron, then you probably know that July 4th marks the international release of Transformers The Movie. This big screen adaptation from director Michael Bay and Dreamworks Pictures is the most anticipated film of the summer. To help mark the occasion, comes the third installment […]