The Breakroom

Earth’s Greatest Heroes

September 20, 2005

To help celebrate the return of one of our favorite shows, Justice League Unlimited, we are proud to announce a new desktop picture. Hawkgirl is a perfect desktop addition for fans of Shayera, the proud warrior from Thanagar. With new adventures courtesy of Bruce Timm and the Cartoon Network, we look forward to seeing the […]

Announcing the immediate availability of Spark, the latest addition to the growing collection of ready-to-use, professionally designed icons at Stockicons.com. With its energetic and casual charm, Spark brings life to any project or website. Simple and bold, Spark is designed to communicate concepts quickly and effortlessly. Spark is also available in scalable EPS format for […]

On this day six years ago (in an alternate reality) the Moon was violently ripped from Earth orbit by a cataclysmic nuclear explosion, sending the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha into the unknown. So begins Gerry Anderson’s fanciful 1970’s Sci-Fi cult classic TV show, Space: 1999. To celebrate this historic day in geekdom history, resident artist, […]

All Our Best!

August 23, 2005

As an iconic tribute to a very special upcoming event, iconist Kate England presents Wedding! All of us here at the Iconfactory are looking forward to joining in the celebration as our own Talos Tsui gets married in the next couple of weeks. We ask that you join us as well by downloading this little […]

Announcing the immediate availability of Plateau, the latest addition to the growing collection of ready-to-use, professionally designed icons at Stockicons.com. Fun and playful, Plateau’s bold colors and quirky lines will bring a retro feel to any application or website. Plateau is also available in scalable EPS format for use in large format, print and web […]

“Good news everyone!”

August 16, 2005

Yes, that’s right! This week’s freeware release comes straight from the year 3000 and New, New York. Futurama Vol.1 offers up super-cool icons of the entire Planet Express team from the hit, but defunct, animated Fox TV show Futurama. Favorites like Bender, Leela, Fry and even Nibbler are just waiting for you to unfreeze them. […]

After more than a week of shake-down time, we are pleased to announce that IconBuilder has been updated to version 8.0.1. This latest release squashes a bug relating to Japanese systems and another with Photoshop palette problems. It also adds small features regarding marquee creation and duplicate resource checking. This update is recommended and is […]

Somatic Extravaganza!

August 11, 2005

A quick note from our very own David Lanham to let everyone know he’s been up late nights working on an update to his ever-popular Somatic desktop theme and system replacement icons. Available at his personal website, don’t miss Somatic Theme 2.0 optimized to work with Tiger as well as Somatic Docs, which contain 280 […]

Fans of Anthony’s popular Litho System have all new reasons to smile today. Litho Extras Vol. 2 expands the application offerings for the Litho style including important applications like the Adobe Creative Suite, BBEdit, Macromedia software and goodies from our friends at Panic. We invite you to surf on over to the Showroom and pick […]

The Iconfactory’s filter for constructing icons, IconBuilder has been re-designed from the ground up in Cocoa for unprecedented power and flexibility, and still sports many of the features that users have come to know and expect. The filter also offers a host of new features that icon artists everywhere will appreciate. Here is a highlight […]