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Safety Dance!

December 6, 2006

Judging by yesterday’s traffic and piles of great comments, it seems like being safe when playing the Wii is the new black. With tens of thousands of people viewing the Missing Wii Safety manual pages we posted on Flickr, we thought there might be a few visitors who would enjoy plastering those absurd diagrams all […]

Wii Safety: The Missing Pages

December 5, 2006

If you have not read or seen the recent hilarious posting by Kotaku about Nintendo’s Safety Manual from Japan, go take a look. Once you do, this entire post will make much more sense. Thanks to one of our clients in Japan, who just happens to work for one of the printing companies Nintendo regularly […]

The Ghost of Christmas Icons Past

December 3, 2006

With December 25th fast approaching, we know you’ve been looking high and low for some festive holiday icons to help put you and your desktop in the mood. Perhaps you long for that one, perfect Christmas desktop picture that will finally get those sugar plums dancing at night. You are in luck because we’ve been […]

Renaissance Finance Released

November 30, 2006

Stockicons.com has released the latest collection in the popular Renaissance family of royalty-free stock icons. Renaissance Finance extends the original collection into the realm of finance and commerce with icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, and more. We are also pleased to release this new collection as scalable EPS files for use in […]

Open the Window

November 28, 2006

Our freeware icon set release this week is a simple set of all-purpose icons that will come in handy for Mac and Windows users alike. This set of Every Day icons covers typical desktop categories like music, pictures, travel and more and has been rendered in the popular and energetic style of our Xpressionism stock […]

Gobble! Gobble!

November 22, 2006

The Iconfactory is closing up for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and will be back to our normal pixel-pushing routine this coming Monday, the 27th. Online orders and support will of course continue so feel free to order that copy of Pixadex you’ve always wanted. It makes a great stocking stuffer! We wish everyone on the […]

All That and a Bag of Chips

November 21, 2006

You may remember back in October when David and Ged risked frostbite and frozen fannies to pre-order their Nintendo Wiis from our local GameStop. Some may have called us crazy back then, but now that we have our consoles, we can tell you first hand that it was well worth it! Much has been written […]

PDF and Resolution Addiction

November 17, 2006

My previous post on Resolution Independence for Developers has received some criticism. To begin with, I’d suggest that people read our initial post after WWDC—we do all our design work with vectors and recommend that method to others. We’re not trying to hold onto established bitmap formats; our workflow would be much simpler if we […]

Announcing IconBuilder 8.1

November 16, 2006

The Iconfactory is pleased to offer a significant upgrade to IconBuilder, our powerful and flexible icon construction filter for Photoshop and Fireworks. Version 8.1 adds full support for building Windows Vista icons including updated grid files and Photoshop actions. It also includes support for larger icon sizes in Mac OS X, multiple resolution TIFF files […]

Squeek squeek, squeek squeeken!

November 14, 2006

Just because the days are growing short and the temperature is starting to drop, it doesn’t mean you can’t bring a bit of warmth and sunshine into your world. Mindy is pleased to announce the release of her latest freeware desktop picture – Happy Squirrel. This fun, bright desktop picture will put a smile on […]

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