The Breakroom

Category: Miscellaneous

New Apparel in Time for WWDC 2025

April 14, 2025

The days are getting longer and everyone’s sleeves are getting shorter, so it’s the perfect time for some new Iconfactory t-shirt designs! We’ve got a couple new Tapestry designs available that are sure to make you the envy of all your developer friends at Apple’s upcoming WWDC: One for Loom, our tool for creating third-party […]

Iconfactory Baseball Caps

April 18, 2023

We’ve teamed up once again with our friends over at Cotton Bureau to bring you some cool new merchandise. In addition to our Iconfactory logo t-shirts and limited edition enamel pins, you can now be the proud owner of a snazzy Iconfactory baseball cap. These low-profile, dad style caps are 100% cotton and embroidered on-demand.  […]

Celebrating Our Silver Pixel Anniversary

June 22, 2021

Twenty five years ago this week, Talos, Corey, and I first pushed pixels into icons of our favorite Star Wars, Star Trek, and cartoon characters and published them under the name Iconfactory (Icnfactory, actually). So much has happened since then, both with the company and the world in which we live, that it would be […]

Designing for a Great Cause

May 6, 2019

The amazing folks over at App Camp for Girls have been hard at work preparing for Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, and we wanted to help get the word out. They’re an incredible organization that inspires and empowers girls, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth to pursue careers in technology. Helmed by some of the most […]

W-W-Dog-Cow T-Shirt

April 25, 2019

In preparation for Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, and the rumored new dark mode coming in iOS 13, we’ve created a fun t-shirt that Mac geeks are sure to love. Clarus the dog cow lights up the night in this fun shirt inspired by the iconic artwork of Susan Kare. The shirt is on sale […]

Talking Accessibility & Twitter’s Upcoming API Changes

August 8, 2018

Podcaster and accessibility maven, Jonathan Mosen, recently had me on his podcast to discuss Twitter’s upcoming imposed changes to their live streaming and push notification APIs. On episode 98 of The Blind Side we talk about what these changes mean for Twitterrific users and how they affect accessibility within the app. Even if you’re sighted, […]

2017: Something Old, Something New

December 28, 2017

This year at the Iconfactory was an especially busy place and much of that was because of you. Thanks to your support, we were able to bring a fine feathered friend back from the ashes. We also launched exciting new products and helped clients around the world expand their Emoji and icon offerings. The year […]

Pokéwall Wallpaper for iOS

July 14, 2016

We’ll admit it, we’re addicted to the new mobile game which seems to have the entire world caught in its tantalizing glow – Pokémon GO. We’ve been waiting patiently for Nintendo to get into the App Store for years hoping that when they did, they’d make a splash – what we got was a tsunami! […]

Iconfactory Celebrates 20 Years

June 20, 2016

Company founders (left to right): Corey Marion, David Brasgalla, Ged Maheux, Craig Hockenberry, and Talos Tsui in the same room for the first and only time back in the summer of 1999. If you had asked any of us in 1996 if we’d still be busy making icons and crafting software twenty years later, we […]

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