The Breakroom

The Day of the Dead

October 3, 2006

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an ancient Mexican celebration that was started by the Aztecs over 3,000 years ago. Although the Spaniards would try and eradicate the rituals, they only partially subdued it. Over the centuries, this festive holiday of bright colors, macabre imagery and specially prepared foods has honored the […]

Halloween Is Coming!

October 2, 2006

Any long time visitor to the Iconfactory knows that this is positively our most favorite time of year. The air is crisp, the leaves are changing and All Hallow’s Eve approaches! That’s right gang, its almost time for the annual spooky transformation of the factory from friendly pixel playground to the frightening bastion of undead […]

Mission: Impossible!

September 26, 2006

“Good morning, Mr. Phelps.” It’s one of the most recognized lines of dialogue in TV history – the opening phrase of each weekly episode of Mission: Impossible. This much-loved television series featured the adventures of the “Impossible Missions Force”, a select group of covert agents using every trick in the book to prove the show’s […]

Artist Kate England continues her exploration of Upper and Lower Egypt with this week’s freeware release – Hieroglyphica Volume 2. Volume 1 proved to be very popular and Kate thought the time was right to expand on the original set of glyphs to include some of the better known symbols including the Egyptian Ankh and […]

Bending Adobe’s Ear

September 18, 2006

For those of you not familiar with the story so far, here is a quick recap. Back on August 23rd we wrote a post of our Top 5 Adobe Illustrator Pet Peeves. Things in Illustrator that either bugged us or were slowing us down in our day-to-day icon making lives. That post was met with […]

The Iconfactory is pleased to announce that an all-new style or “Family” of icons is now available at stockicons.com – Renaissance. This brings the total number of unique styles of icons for designers and developers to 19. With a total of 65 individual collections to choose from, this represents largest, most diverse royalty-free offerings available […]

Baby Spaceships Warp In!

September 12, 2006

What do you get when you combine the sleek, futuristic lines of science fiction’s greatest spacecraft with the adorable cuteness of infants? Why Baby Spaceships of course! Iconfactory artist Talos Tsui has adapted the ‘Super Deformed’ style, popular in Japan, to some of the most popular fantasy vessels of television and the movies. The result […]

Why the Internet Rocks

September 10, 2006

Every now and then you stumble across something on the Internet that reminds you just how cool it really is. Tonight we came across something that took us right back to our childhoods and we suspect that it will do the same for you. YouTube plays host to all manner of videos from singing Hoffs […]

AutoEmblems Vol. 1

September 6, 2006

Resident artist and self-professed car nut Corey Marion brings us a bit of Europen flair with today’s freeware icon release – AutoEmblems Vol. 1. If you are lucky enough to own a Ferrari, Lamboghini or Maserati grab this set and drop a shiny little piece of your Italian Exotic on your desktop. If you don’t […]

Scotty, Beam Us Up… NOW!

September 1, 2006

A few days ago, word leaked out that the powers that be were planning on re-releasing Star Trek the Original Series with all new and updated special effects. We posted some tantalizing tidbits in the Industry News about this, but were waiting on official word from Paramount. Well, the word has come and all we […]