Word just came via the Chief Typist’s tweets that the fine folks at Panic have walked away with another Apple Design Award, this time for Coda. The team at Panic loves creating killer Mac software and their impressive ADA stash is the result. We’re pleased to have been able to contribute, icon-wise, to Coda and […]

If you’ve ever wondered what goes through the brains of icon designers as they work their mojo, you are in luck. 37signals invited Iconfactory Principals Corey Marion and Dave Brasgalla to an informal Fireside Chat to discuss the state of icons and icon design. They met up online with noted icon artists Brian Brasher and […]

Observant visitors to the factory might have noticed some subtle clues that we’ve been dropping for the past several months. You see, we’ve been working on a special new product with ARTIS Software, the great company behind xScope, to bring you something fun and all new. Over a year in the making, and in beta […]

Being the TV junkies we are, it comes as no surprise that we’re all hyped up for the start of season 11 of one of our favorite shows – The Amazing Race. This time out the producers have assembled the show’s “brightest stars” in the hopes of recapturing some of the audience that started to […]

Anyone who’s “hip” knows that Leo Laporte is the man when it comes to all things techno. So imagine our surprise and delight when we listened to the latest episode of the MacBreak podcast and found that Twitterrific was Leo’s software pick of the week! Leo and the gang rap on all things Apple including […]

We’re back folks! Fresh and rested from our annual holiday break, the workers are eager to get the new year off and running by cranking up the assembly line and getting back in the pixellated groove. Every year at this time we dust off our WACOM tablets and sort through the thousands of Spams built […]

WARNING: if you are a vegetarian then we advise you to skip this post. Nothing to see here, move along. But if you enjoy a good hearty steak, or just about any other mouth watering cut of meat you can think of, then this one is for you! Each year around this time, the workers […]

As we were skimming through the servers stats this morning we noticed an unusual spike and started investigating. You may have read an entry at Daring Fireball yesterday pointing out the apparent misappropriation of an Apple icon on Microsoft’s ordering page for Windows Vista Business. We scoured our referral logs and discovered that a post […]

If you have not read or seen the recent hilarious posting by Kotaku about Nintendo’s Safety Manual from Japan, go take a look. Once you do, this entire post will make much more sense. Thanks to one of our clients in Japan, who just happens to work for one of the printing companies Nintendo regularly […]

The Iconfactory is closing up for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and will be back to our normal pixel-pushing routine this coming Monday, the 27th. Online orders and support will of course continue so feel free to order that copy of Pixadex you’ve always wanted. It makes a great stocking stuffer! We wish everyone on the […]