The Breakroom

Happy and Safe Halloween!

October 31, 2006

How time flies! It seems that just yesterday we made the spooky switch over for October’s Halloween celebration. Now the day has come and there are only a few hours left until we have to bid farewell to all things spooky for another year. We hope you have enjoyed this year’s terrifying makeover and have […]

Huddled over our WACOM tablets, in the soft and continuous glow of our LCD monitors, we sit and push pixels and occasionally look up and see what all the hub-bub is about. Last week was one such moment when we posted our first set of photos on Flickr. Our Chief Typist, quite by accident, discovered […]

Keeping Up with the Foreman

October 18, 2006

Our good friends over at Pixelsurgeon have published this month’s edition of their edgy podcast, Audiosurgeon which features news, reviews and exclusive music from the world of design, culture and more. Issue number 6 features a wealth of pulsing tracks that are definitely worth a listen. Somewhere in between all this ultra-cool content lives a […]

Wii Are Waiting In Line…

October 13, 2006

If you are a game console fan, then you know the significance of today. Yes, the sky is turning red, the seas are about to boil and the earth is about to stop spinning. Okay, so its not that important, its just the day that the new Nintendo Wii console goes on pre-order here in […]

Meet Mr. Lanham

October 9, 2006

In case you missed it, last week AppleMatters.com posted an interview with our very own talented icon artist, David Lanham. Learn what inspires David to create, how his view of the world has evolved and how he came to be among friends here at the Iconfactory. If you are a fan of David’s work, then […]

Bending Adobe’s Ear

September 18, 2006

For those of you not familiar with the story so far, here is a quick recap. Back on August 23rd we wrote a post of our Top 5 Adobe Illustrator Pet Peeves. Things in Illustrator that either bugged us or were slowing us down in our day-to-day icon making lives. That post was met with […]

Why the Internet Rocks

September 10, 2006

Every now and then you stumble across something on the Internet that reminds you just how cool it really is. Tonight we came across something that took us right back to our childhoods and we suspect that it will do the same for you. YouTube plays host to all manner of videos from singing Hoffs […]

Scotty, Beam Us Up… NOW!

September 1, 2006

A few days ago, word leaked out that the powers that be were planning on re-releasing Star Trek the Original Series with all new and updated special effects. We posted some tantalizing tidbits in the Industry News about this, but were waiting on official word from Paramount. Well, the word has come and all we […]

“Et tu, Adobe?”

August 31, 2006

Our recent post, ‘Top 5 Adobe Illustrator Pet Peeves’, struck a chord so loud it broke the glass we were drinking from! Illustrator users everywhere came out in force with their thoughts and suggestions. Most feedback fell along lines of “I agree 100%” or the ever-popular “Deal with it people!” Some however, wrote with very […]

Having recently made the switch from Freehand, the workers are slowly learning to love Illustrator while coming to terms with some of its limitations. So in an effort to improve our creation tool of choice, we want to give a shout to the talented folks at Adobe with a list of five things in Illustrator […]