The Breakroom

History in the Making

June 10, 2004

If you pop over to the Warehouse, you’ll see an interesting statistic on display – 199 icon sets in inventory. Back in June of 2000, The Iconfactory released its 100th icon set and now, four years later we’ve reached another milestone. Another 100 sets of free icons have been released, and to celebrate we’re working […]

The Iconfactory is proud to announce the release of the first official freeware collection from our new worker, David Lanham. David joined the factory back in April and has been cultivating this unique set of system replacement icons in the interim. Somatic is a set of over 80 icons that you can use with CandyBar […]

This week’s freeware icon release is a sort of visual experiment from Iconfactory artist, Talos Tsui. Totem Pole is a unique set of system and application icons with visual influences from Native American artwork. The icons are designed to stack together in a vertically oriented dock, but also work well on their own. If this […]

The U.S. Memorial Day Holiday has put the workers behind a day or so on the assembly line, so be sure to tune in here tomorrow for the latest freeware release from IF artist, Talos Tsui. And while your patiently waiting, be sure to swing on over to MacThemes.net and read the in-depth interview with […]

We’re proud to announce that this week’s freeware release is the latest in Mindy’s series of Neon Genesis Evangelion desktop pictures. This time out, our focus is the series’ own “hero” Shinji Ikari. Shinji is available in multiple screen resolutions and makes a great desktop for anime fans everywhere. Surf on over and grab it […]

Movin’ On Up!

May 21, 2004

For the second time in three years, The Iconfactory has outgrown its office space in Greensboro, NC. Its now been one year since Designer Anthony Piraino joined the factory, and the recent addition of Designer David Lanham pushed us over the occupancy limit. Since the workers are now packed in tighter than pickles (thanks Ellen!), […]

Our resident comic book nut Talos Tsui has created an all-new desktop picture to accompany Gedeon’s recent icon release of Justice League. Now you can have the forces of good right there on your desktop as you battle evil deadlines and malicious kernel panics. Surf on over to scoop up this cool creation in a […]

Next Tuesday marks the DVD home release of “The Return Of The King”, the final installment in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings. Factory worker and long-time Tolkien reader Dave Brasgalla has taken his excitement about the event and put it to work, crafting a set of over 20 […]

We are very happy to announce that designer Max Rudberg has accepted and begun a 4 month intern position as a production assistant at the Iconfactory / Marmalade Moon studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Max is a graduate of Nacka Mediagymnasium. In his spare time Max enjoys creating themes for Mac OS X. You can view […]

Our Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry has written a new freeware utility that checks for applications in your Downloads folder. It was created in response to the MP3Concept Trojan horse release of April 2004. See John Gruber’s excellent commentary on this Trojan and the controversy/hype that it generated. Although its highly unlikely Mac users will encounter […]