The Breakroom

Just a quick note to let everyone know that a new batch of previously released icon sets have been converted into Pixadex iContainers for you to download. Why bother re-downloading icons you might already have? As with all Pixadex iContainers we release, the icons contain searchable keywords that make finding specific concepts or terms easy […]

This week’s freeware release comes from the Foreman himself and is based on the logos of a certain team of super heroes that you may be familiar with. That’s right – Justice League lands on your desktop to protect you from the forces of evil and keep the earth safe from super villains. Fly (don’t […]

A Long Overdue Apology

May 11, 2004

Way back in Iconfactory ancient history, say around 1998, the workers re-designed the site with what has become known as our “black phase”. That is to say that the predominant color of the pages of the site was black with white type. We received quite a few emails from people saying things like “Your site […]

Announcing the immediate availability of our latest royalty-free icon collection from StockIcons.com – Isometric. Designed using an exacting perspective grid and a bright color palette, the Isometric collection has a unified appearance, and emphasizes the technical aspects of projects. For clarity the smaller, 16×16 sizes are rendered straight on while maintaining the feel of their […]

Now that our server problems have been corrected, Iconfactory artist, Dave Brasgalla, unveils his latest freeware icon collection today – Rev 2 Folders. This set of smooth and elegant folder replacement icons families perfectly with Dave’s earlier release of Rev 2 Drives and will help give your desktop a clean and hi-tech appearance. For Mac […]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our backend database and as a result you are experiencing errors when attempting to access certain portions of the factory. Rest assured, we are working on the problem and hope to have the site back up and running shortly. […]

New Icon Jacket Tuesday

April 27, 2004

As spring blooms and summer looms it’s time for the workers to change their jackets – iPulse Jackets that is. The factory workers have been shedding those winter pixels for you with GUI goodies for our system monitoring tool, iPulse. Breeze on over to the iPulse Jacket Gallery and brighten up your desktop today.

That’s right, another year’s icon design contest has reached its conclusion and with it, we are pleased to announce the Grand Prize, Runner-Up and People’s Choice winners of Pixelpalooza 2004. Our thanks go out to all of those who took the time to enter, as well as our generous sponsors who donated this year’s prize […]

We’ve put our weekly freeware releases on hold so that the icon spotlights will be highly focused on tomorrow’s contest winners. Be sure to tune in here tomorrow at 12 Noon, e.s.t. to learn the official Grand Prize, Runner-Up and People’s Choice winners in each of the three contest categories. You can almost hear the […]

Today marks the release of the latest version of our professional icon construction filter, IconBuilder. Version 5 adds several important features including support for building 24×24 pixel Windows toolbar icons as well as custom 128×128 Windows icons. These, plus other feature additions and several important enhancements are outlined on the IconBuilder homepage. Registered users can […]