July 10, 2012
We invite you to check out this special pre-release preview of Lost Cities currently being developed by TheCodingMonkeys. The Iconfactory created the user interface design including vivid retina display graphics, as well as the app icon and website design.
More sneak peeks will be posted prior to release so plan on checking back here or at dribbble.com. Lost Cities will be coming to the app store soon! You can stay tuned by following @LostCitiesApp on Twitter.
July 10, 2012
Slab is a new icon style from Iconfactory designer Corey Marion. His original intent for this set was simply to extend the popular Smoothicon collection with all of the latest Apple hardware but somewhere along the line it evolved into something more precise and more technical. Inspired by the BeOS icons from the 1990’s, Slab is bold and fresh, modernizing the hand built pixel-by-pixel quasi-isometric style.
Give your fancy desktop a bit of late 20th century retro operating system style. Download Slab from our freeware page today.
July 2, 2012
Way back in 1994 I was working for a startup database publishing company producing their corporate ID and marketing materials. We purchased a tiny interactive design group led by an inspiring, enthusiastic young man named Ron Jones. I was fortunate to have been given the opportunity to join his team. I am saddened to say that we lost a good friend and a great man over the weekend. Ron Jones passed away Sunday morning after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a savvy business man, a motivational leader and a loving father and will be sorely missed.
Ron’s leadership and vision was a vital catalyst to the formation of the Iconfactory. His desire to create a dynamic talented group of people led him to hire Gedeon and Talos, two graduate students fresh from the Rochester Institute of Technology computer graphic design program. Over the next two to three years we hired several more designers and programmers including Cheryl Culling who is currently one of our project managers. Paradigm Interactive was a fun, creative group who became fast friends and produced two educational CD-ROM titles along with countless interactive demos and promotional materials.
Corporate restructuring sent us all our separate ways in late 1997 but Gedeon, Talos and I continued to work on icons in our spare time until we were busy enough to leave our jobs and incorporate the Iconfactory in January of 2000.
We thank Ron for giving us the chance to meet lifelong friends, the opportunity to do what we love, and the devotion to make a difference in the world. We will miss you.
~ Corey Marion, Iconfactory Founder
May 31, 2012
With the imminent release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott is returning to the ever-popular science fiction franchise he kicked off more than thirty years ago with the classic Alien. To say that we’re all excited to see what he’s going to show us is putting it mildly – it’s sure to be an impressive experience.
Of course, marketing has changed a lot in thirty years, and Prometheus has used some very modern and clever approaches to building anticipation for the film. One of the best has been a slick faux corporate website for the imaginary Weyland Corporation that one can wander through for hours, finding all sorts of hints about the upcoming film, as well as nods to past entries in the franchise.
Dave Brasgalla has created several icons and desktop wallpapers using the graphic sensibility of that site so that you can extend the look and feel onto your own devices. Building better worlds – one desktop at a time! Head over to the freeware page and download “Weyland Corp” today, and we’ll see you in the cinema!
May 15, 2012
Version 3.2 of xScope, our indispensable screen design tool, is now available. Get it from the updates tab in the Mac App Store or if you downloaded from xScopeApp.com check for updates under the xScope menu bar item.
This latest adds support for CSS hsl() colors in the Loupe and lets you preview Acorn files with the Mirror Tool. It also adds a Dribbble preset in screens for taking quick screenshots to share.
Check the version history page for a complete list of changes.
May 10, 2012
The iconfactory is pleased to announce the release of Astronut for iPad. Let gravity and guts be your guide as you blast off on a planet-hopping adventure of cosmic proportions. Travel to uncharted galaxies, gather star shards and avoid unfriendly life forms, all on your quest to explore the known universe and become the ultimate hero!
Astronut for iPad is available now on the iTunes App Store for $1.99. A free demo of Astronut for iPhone is also available for download. iPhone users can purchase the in-app upgrade for just .99 to play the entire game.
We invite you to visit AstronutApp.com to view the official game trailer, download desktop goodies, get strategy tips and answers to your most frequently asked questions. Follow @astronutapp on Twitter for the latest updates.
April 25, 2012
In a little over a week, Marvel’s massive superhero adventure, The Avengers, will burst onto the screen to the delight of comic fans world wide. To help celebrate the release, Iconfactory artist Talos Tsui is pleased to announce the release of the second set in his ATV series – ATV Drives 2.
Volume two builds off of Talos’ first ATV release and contains custom hard drive icons for two of the Avengers – Captain America and Thor as well as fun TRON and Toy Story replacements as well. If you love outfitting your Mac or PC desktop drives with cool costumes, this is the set for you. Head on over and download ATV Drives 2 from our freeware page today!
April 24, 2012
We are pleased to officially announce that the beloved and addictive carnival boardwalk classic Ramp Champ is now in the loving hands of our good friends over at DS MediaLabs.
When we partnered with the DS team way back in 2008 we had no idea how much work was ahead of us. This was technically the first game we designed from scratch so it was unlike anything we had ever undertaken. Gallons of blood, sweat and tears later we had produced a playable work of art that we are still extremely proud of. We look forward to seeing where DS MediaLabs takes Ramp Champ in the future.
April 20, 2012
We’re pleased to announce an update to iPulse, our popular Mac OS X monitoring utility. iPulse 2.5 is now optimized for 64-bit processes and is designed to work much more smoothly on recent OS X releases. It also adds several improvements like displaying CPU and disk information, automatic updates via Sparkle and updated icons. This update is recommended for all iPulse users. For a complete list of what’s new, head on over to the iPulse version history page. Registered users of iPulse can update their copy to version 2.5 for free.
New users can download iPulse and try it out free of charge prior to purchasing which now just costs just $9.95 from the iPulse homepage. If you enjoy knowing what’s going on under Mac OS X’s hood via a fully customizable GUI, then iPulse is the tool for you.
