The Breakroom
Category: Design
Pixel Portraits are Back!
June 23, 2025
Our hand-crafted Pixel Portrait add-on was so popular during our Tapestry Kickstarter that we’ve decided to bring them back – now anyone can get their own retro portrait created. These hand-crafted graphics are made with love by actual human beings, no AI involved. They’re perfect for your online avatar, printing and framing, or anything else […]
Icons, apps, and… posters?
June 6, 2025
Our bread and butter here at the Iconfactory may be icon and UI design, but we love any kind of project where we can put pencil to paper (or to pixels, as the case may be). Creating original wallpapers for Wallaroo and our Patreon is one way we get to free ourselves from the usual […]
Tapestry: Past, Present, and Future
February 25, 2025
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, and ten months of development, Tapestry is finally an App Store reality. Tapestry presents content in chronological order, with no algorithm or other person deciding what you should or shouldn’t see. Content can come from social media services like Bluesky, Mastodon, or Tumblr, as well as RSS feeds, podcasts, YouTube […]
Enter Tapestry
February 4, 2025
We’ve been making apps for decades and have acquired the skills to build all sorts of great things. But even talented teams can be challenged, and our latest product has been the hardest yet. I’m talking about Tapestry. It’s taken ten months since 3,369 folks agreed that the idea of putting all the things you follow […]
Thinking Outside the Box with MuseBox
July 16, 2024
Sometimes a design project can hit a roadblock and stall out – a point where for some reason it becomes difficult to leap over a certain potential solution in order to arrive at an even better one. Brushed Pixel came to us for help with this very situation. They had developed a solid starting point […]
Welcome to the New Iconfactory.com
January 9, 2024
We are terrible at tooting our own horn. Someone recently was excited to learn we offered design services to clients – something we’ve been doing for over 25 years and is a significant part of our business. It was clearly time for a refresh of iconfactory.com so we could highlight that aspect of our work. […]
Happy Anniversary, xScope!
November 14, 2023
Twenty years ago today, we released a new product. To say that product has been a success would be an understatement. It’s been an essential part of a workflow for tens of thousands of folks. It’s also an app that has evolved with our desktop environments over the years: it predates responsive web design, Retina […]
Announcing Linea Sketch 4.3
November 7, 2023
The latest update to Linea Sketch is now available! From textures to thumbnail cropping, version 4.3 is packed with clever new features to make sketching on your iPad easier and more fun than ever. Textures Have Never Been Easier We’ve created a variety of pre-defined seamless textures to let you quickly add visual interest and […]
