The Breakroom

Totally Awesome Dude!

August 8, 2006

The senses heighten, your heart races and Queen’s ‘Radio Ga Ga’ pounds in your ears as you skillfully evade Blinky, gobble a power-pill and make him wish he was never formed. If you are a child of the 80’s then you know these feelings well and just might long for a return to the simple […]

Amora Assimilates iPulse

August 4, 2006

David Lanham’s new system replacement icon set, Amora, has been an instant hit since the site launch earlier this week. Now comes word that the artist behind OzzDesign, Antonino Mingoia, has worked up a wonderful companion iPulse Jacket based on Amora and released it to the public. If you are not familar with iPulse, take […]

Roll Out the Barrel!

August 3, 2006

We are now officially at launch day plus 2 and we just wanted to say thank you to all of you who have taken time to send us your incredible feedback on the new site. We are all gratified by your unadulterated love for the new site’s design, functionality and content. You like us! You […]

Welcome one and all as we celebrate our 10th anniversary with the launch of all-new versions of Iconfactory.com and Stockicons.com. Over 2 years in design and development, the new sites have been rebuilt from the ground up using Ruby on Rails and are now hosted on Apple’s xServe platform. These two sites boast many new […]

After an intense round of judging by Gedeon and a host of other judges from the online Macintosh community, blogger Phil Ryu has posted the winners in the Fake Leopard Screen Shot contest. Entries showcased a range of ideas for the new OS as well as some fresh and clever new takes on the user […]

The Future Is Amora

July 22, 2006

We are pleased to bring you the latest incredible set of system replacement icons from resident icon artist David Lanham. Amora is a highly detailed and imaginative set of over 120 system and application replacements that conjures images of the future both wondrous and disturbing. David has been fine tuning this set for months and […]

Something’s Coming…

July 20, 2006

You may have noticed a slight decrease in the output of freeware goodies from the workers these last few weeks. There is a reason for that as you will see starting next week. We’re reminded of an exchange between HAL and Bowman from 2010: The Year We Make Contact: “I’m afraid Dave.” “Don’t be. Something […]

We wanted to take a moment to mention an outstanding review of our Mac OS X monitoring utility iPulse, posted over at Skinyourscreen.com. While the review touches on the many aspects of iPulse that let you keep tabs on what OS X is doing, it also digs deep into iPulse’s other major attraction, jackets. Unlike […]

Want to Say Hi?

July 17, 2006

Corey and Craig will be making the annual pilgrimage to San Francisco for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on August 6th to marvel at the upcoming wonders of Leopard. While Craig is busy absorbing all the new info about Apple’s latest, Corey will be roaming the halls and talking to developers about icon design. If you […]

Mac developer and friend of the Iconfactory, Phill Ryu, has announced a new and original contest over at his recently launched blog. The ‘Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest’ promises to showcase fun and wishful ideas for Apple’s upcoming operating system release, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). To help the Mac community get in the spirit of […]