The Breakroom

A Touch of Nature

July 2, 2003

Icon artist and Iconfactory worker, Kate England, has posted a new set of beautiful, organic icons and an associated desktop picture at her personal site of Marmalade Moon. These new goodies will help transform your computer into a peaceful place just right for tired eyes. Enjoy!

Our own Corey Marion and Craig Hockenberry have been pounding the floor at WWDC this week, soaking up Steve’s keynote, making contacts, meeting clients and learning cool new stuff. Imagine how surprised we were to see our very own Mr. Marion photographed at the Iconfactory’s WWDC booth on Apple.com. Long, hard hours with just a […]

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website – StockIcons.com. StockIcons.com is geared towards software developers looking for professional quality stock icons for inclusion in their desktop or web-based applications. The icon artists at the factory have taken their skills and experiences and applied them to the creation of high-quality sets of […]

Just a quick FYI to let everyone know that The Iconfactory and Polymorph Software, makers of our popular OS 9 software, iControl, have decided to part ways. Because of this, The Iconfactory has assumed technical support for both iControl and IconBrowser. Registered users of these pieces of software can expect the same level of quality […]

We are pleased to announce that starting today, when you purchase a software product from the Iconfactory, you are doing just that, not going through our old third party system, Kagi. This means that all customer orders are handled more efficiently and more securely than ever before. Now when you order a software product, you […]

If all goes according to plan, the Iconfactory website will be down for most of the day this Friday for scheduled updates and maintenance. Friday the 13th aside, we think you’ll be pleased with the result, so we ask for your patience while we work to make the factory a more user friendly place. Stay […]

The Iconfactory is pleased to introduce you to the newest member of our pixel-pushing team, Anthony Piraino. Many of you will recognize him from his personal website, one-button mouse.com, and we’re pleased as punch to have him aboard as the demand for icons just seems to go up and up and up! Anthony started with […]

We’re pleased to report on two positive 3rd party reviews of our professional icon creation filter for Adobe Photoshop, IconBuilder Pro 4.0. The reviewer over at IT-Enquirer rates IconBuilder Pro 4.0 a 10 out of 10 and praises the filter’s workflow for ease of use. Steve Caplin of MacUser UK, awarded IconBuilder Pro 4.0 a […]

That’s right folks, our resident news editor, icon artist and desktop pattern maker extraordinaire, Mindy, is celebrating her birthday today! Everyone here at the factory (especially the Foreman :-) hopes she has a wonderful birthday filled with fun and excitement! You’re the best kiddo!

Our Next Big Thing

May 20, 2003

Here at the Iconfactory, we like to keep the bigger projects under wraps until they’re 100% ready – we think it’s more exciting that way! However, we’ve decided to give in to the many requests we’ve been receiving and give everyone a quick peek at our next major software product. We won’t go into the […]